52 Weeks

Week 1

Ancestor - my Dad, Ertice Dixon.  Dad was born in Delight AR.

Theme is Family Lore

My father told me several stories that I questioned.  The first was about a Great Uncle named Benjamin  Franklin Wingfield who was married to his fathers sister Mary Ellen "Molly" Dickson.  She was a widow as her husband was killed in the civil war.  When I researched him, he was born in 1854, so couldn't have served in the Civil War - he was actually in WW1 and died in 1913.  The family was disappointed.

The second was that his grandpa had given him his shot gun when he was in his early teens (around 1938).  He traded it for an old Model A Ford that he found rusting in a field.  He worked on the car until he got it running.  It was his first car.  He was a mechanic all his life.  He later regretted trading his grandpas gun for a car.  This story seems to be true and his brothers and sisters remembered it also.