I have just downloaded and installed the PAF software that the church provides for people who do family history. I loaded in my file for the Hoag family and looked at it for the first time in a few years. I guess my memory isn’t as good as I thought it was. My mother married Floyd on Feb 6, 1954 which is about 2 years earlier than I was thinking. I would have been 11, set to turn 12 later than year. This would have been the winter after I had rheumatic fever. I don’t remember any of that. I do know that we didn’t move to the farm until the summer between my 8th and 9th grades (because I know what schools I attended.) That should have have been the summer of 1956, since I graduated in 1960. Go back 4 years and you get to 1956. So, we lived in Battle Creek for about 2 years before moving to the farm. My brother, Martin, was born Mar 4, 1955, so he was born in Battle Creek. Laura, my sister, was not born until April 14, 1957. So we were on the farm by this time.
I hope someday to give everyone a copy of the history of my family as we are instructed to do in the church. This dialog will accompany that.
I’ll get back to the history tomorrow.
Dad