Coral outcropping at Sombrero Beach

Billy and I took a swim in the cool salty waters at Sombrero Beach on Atlantic side of Marathon Key reached via Sister Creek.

View from US 1 in FL Keys toward the Gulf

Arrived in Tampa during tropical storm Barry. Next day, drove east to toward Miami and then south on US 1 over the Keys to Marathon. Boarded the Poken. We leave Monday for Everglades, gulf side; then up the coast to Englewood, Sarasota County.

Trip Extension

Oops, something came up and I will not be returning to my home in NC this week. Instead, I will be joining my brother, Russell (Billy to me), on a trip around the Florida Keys on his boat "Poken", from Marathon, FL, on the Atlantic coast to near Tampa, FL, on the Gulf coast. Trip might take 6 or 7 days or more depending on the weather. I will fly out this afternoon, June 1st to Tampa, and return June 15th to Baltimore, MD.

Picture was taken last August, 2006, of my Uncle Edward Gailliot. We boated around the Chesapeake Bay, MD, for a short week. This was the first long visit in years among my brother, Uncle, and I. Nothing like a long boat ride to bring us tightly together again.

I wonder if I will be able to post a picture message to my blog via my cell phone. If I can, best for you to return later after I have an opportunity to edit the posts.

Ahoy and Bon Voyage to moi (or nous?)

Mom's Heritage Garden

Before leaving Maryland and Pennsylvania to return home to Monroe, NC, I took this picture of my mother working on her "Heritage" garden. During the last few days, we have transplanted some of the perennials from her former house to her new cottage in Hanover, PA. She has some beautiful, deep purple-colored Iris.

Leah Lewis, wife of the elusive Julius Streich

Front Street (the main street) of Philipsburg, Centre Co, Pennsylvania, is being practically reconstructed. However, the Philipsburg Historical Society is active and open on Mondays, 2 to 4, and Thursday evenings, 5 to 7. Find it on the third floor of this building(left) at 203 North Front St., above barber's rotating column.

One of my brick walls came crumbling down as I found obituary of Leah, born Lewis, the wife of Julius Streich. Family tradition indicated that my grandfather's brother, Julius, married a girl and then abandoned her shortly thereafter. They said, "He went out for a loaf of bread and never came back".

From the Philipsburg Journal, 2 Feb 1929: "Former Resident Dies in Austin"

"Mrs. Leah Lewis Lininger, wife of D.C. Lininger, a former resident of Philipsburg [PA], died at her house in Austin, PA, on Wednesday, January 23rd, 1929, following an illness of three weeks, aged 43 years."

"Besides her husband, she leaves a little daughter, Marcia, aged 7 years, a daughter and son by former marriage. Her aged mother, Mrs. Eleanor Lewis and three brothers, Henry, William, and Samual Lewis."

"Mrs. Lininger still retained her membership in the Church of Christ, Philipsburg [PA], but since moving to Austin attended the Methodist Church and was a faithful member of the Gleaner Sunday School Class. She was also a member of the WCTH, The Rebekah Lodge, and Rose Klan, holding offices in these organizations at the time of her death. She was a woman of many pleasant graces and of an unusually cheerful disposition and to know her was to love her. Funeral Services were held in the Austin Methodist Episcopal Church on Sunday afternoon, Jan 27th with burial at Emporium [PA]."

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Subsequently, I found Leah's widow in the 1930 Census (Ancestry.com image). Potter Co, PA, Austin Borough, Thorne St., ED 53-3, sheet 2A:

Delbert C. Lininger, head, 58, widowed, marr at 24; b. in PA of Pa-born parents; millwright in paper mill.

Children: George H., 24, paper bundler in paper mill; Clara H., 19; Gilbert M., 16; Raymond L., 14; and Marcia G, 8 yaers. All children born in PA of Pa-born parents.