Captain Jeremiah Hatch and Elizabeth Haight Hatch

Here's an incredible story of my 5th-Great Grandparents - Jeremiah and Elizabeth Hatch.  Includes the miracle of Elizabeth's baptism and the Miracle of the Quail at Sugar Creek, Iowa.  They leave behind a legacy of faith and determination.

Thomas Caradoc Lewis and his Award Winning Cake-Walk Dance

This week I share a bit about my great-grandfather, Thomas Caradoc Lewis and his award winning Cake-Walk dance.  I wasn't sure what the cake-walk was, and would have loved to seen him in action.  I've included some old clips of what the cake-walk was, and hope you can imagine him doing something similar in your minds-eye.

Here's a couple of links showing what the "cake-walk" or "kake-walk" looked like at the turn of the century -

My Great-Great-Great Grandfather, John Ash - Writes A Poem

John Ash is my Great-Great-Great Grandfather.  He crossed the plains with a handcart company and settled in Cache Valley.  I wanted to focus on a poem I found that I believe is in his own hand - written (I believe) to his daughter, my Great-Great Grandmother, Ellen Matilda Ash Nelson.  His words of counsel and advise are as pertinent today as they were when he wrote them (sadly, I don't have a date for this poem).