This is the website of Abulsme Noibatno Itramne (also known as Sam Minter).
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 The for another ancestor. This time my mother’s mother, Marion Vera Hurlburt. She was born in Mendon, Vermont and died just a few months short of 100 years later in Southampton, Massachusetts.
In the intervening place she did a lot and lived in many places. At least eight states and two countries. High School in Maine. College in Ohio. Nursing School in Rhode Island. Followed her husband’s ministries in Maine and Ohio before he died young leaving her a single mother with two children and pregnant with a third (my mother). Then a full career as a nurse in various locations in Vermont, including 16 years as the nurse in residence for a residential school for children in need.
Then as soon as the last of her children (my mother) graduated college, she left the country to be a missionary nurse in Turkey for five years in her 60’s. Finally she retired to Massachusetts in 1973. And of course it is there that I visited her many times as a child, through to the last years of her life a few years back.
For more information, click on the picture.
 Time for my mother’s father. Born in Arkansas, but spent most of his life in Ohio. I really don’t have a huge amount of biographical information on Ralph Brandon. Perhaps other members of the family will be able to fill some in or send me more as time goes on. He died while my Grandmother was still pregnant with my Mother, so my mom never knew him, although her older brothers did. I have vague memories of stories of how he died, but nothing solid enough to put down, and no sources to back it up. Something about a doctor’s office or a chiropractor or something. He died young. Just about a week short of his 36th birthday. Just about my age now. In any case, click the picture for more.
 I should have posted pictures with the last four genealogical posts, but I didn’t. You had to click through to the Wiki to see the pictures on those. Oh well. Cause after all, there are only so many of these that I WILL have pictures for. In any case, it is time for my father’s mother:
Mary Sue Wootton
She is currently doing well and emailing regularly on her WebTV from Tucson, Arizona. :-) I remember fondly many visits to her house as a child up through a few years ago. Almost always at Christmas. The last time I was there was a few years back when I had a business trip to Phoenix and decided to take a side trip one day and drove to Tucson in the rental car and made a surprise visit for lunch. I got pretty close to being able to find the house without directions even though I had never driven in Tucson before. I think I was within about a mile when I gave up and called for directions. :-)
Oh, and very important. She goes by “Sue”. Not “Mary” or “Mary Sue”. Of course, she is just “Grandmother Minter” to me.
Time for another ancestor. This time my father’s father… born 1912 in North Carolina, died in 1991 in Arizona. With quite a lot of interesting events in between.
David Ramseur Minter
On 27 Sep 1955 a “Mass Meeting” of the white elite of Holmes County, Mississippi met and accused Dr. Minter and his co-practicioner Dr. Gene Cox of “communist doings” at Providence due to the fact that they treated both blacks and whites at the same facility. They were told to get out of town. David and Sue stayed for about another year, but then the pressure on them and on Providence Farm became intolerable and the family moved to Tucson, Arizona to join son William (Bill).
On the wiki page I link to the three pages of a biographical article published in 1997. It is a fascinating history, especially the years in Mississippi. In fact, there is a whole book on the history of the “experiment” that my grandfather was a part of in the late 40’s and early 50’s. I’d definitely recommend the article (it is a very quick read) to everybody and the book for anybody that is interested in a bit deeper view.
With the last post I finished off Generation 1. So time to do a “where am I from” summary. “From” in the sense that people say their family is from England, or Germany, or whatever. I’ll do this after each generation I fully complete. At the moment I have enough in my spreadsheet that I know I can “complete” at least through Generation 4 (my 16 great-great-grandparents) in that I have all of their names. I don’t however have where all of them were born, so when we get there part of me might be from “Unknown”. We’ll see. Generation 5 and beyond I also am missing people entirely. (For instance, I only know 24 out of 32 names for Generation 5 at the moment… then on a percentage basis each succeeding generation has fewer.)
Anyway…
Based on the 2 people in Generation 1, Sam is from:
50%: District of Columbia, USA
50%: Ohio, USA
Of course, I should have made a post like this after finishing Generation 0. It would have looked like:
Based on the 1 person in Generation 0, Sam is from:
100%: Wisconsin, USA
Another ancestor, this time my mother. Born in Ohio, lived in a bunch of other places, soon to go back to Ohio. I’ve actually got a few biographical details on this listing, simply because there were a few paragraphs of such things in the announcement of the award she got last year. I didn’t add too much of my own though. Only used what I could find elsewhere. In any case:
Ruth Marilyn Brandon
Time for another ancestor:
William Maynard Minter
This is my father of course. The bibliographic details aren’t completely filled up, I didn’t want to take that liberty, but it has links to a few of his books and the basic information. He was born in Washington, DC and after quite a few years in other places, lives there again.
When available, I’ve usually tried to use a picture from when the person was between 20 and 40 years old. I had a few of those of my father on my computer, but all were too low resolution to be usable. Sometime after we’re all moved and I have my stuff again (including old photo books) I’ll make a higher res copy of one of those and replace the pic I used. But the pic I used is a good one, just more recent.
And of course, as I get a few generations back, I’ll have to take what I can get in terms of pictures because much fewer exist. And of course, beyond a certain point, they don’t exist at all.
When I was thinking about if I should link to the Wiki or not, there was actually one item that pushed me in this direction. Namely, I have for YEARS been wanting to put a family tree type thing up on abulsme.com. Several years ago I’d actually made some templates for the pages and such, but it was kind of a pain, so I never got very far with it. The Wiki thing has really enabled that by just making it a much more frictionless process to quickly get what I want up. I’d actually started with a big Excel spreadsheet and I now have 180 ancestors on that spreadsheet. (And quite a few of the “deep nodes” on there I know I can go deeper, I just haven’t yet. For instance, the stuff I mentioned in New Deepest Relative isn’t reflected there yet.)
I quickly realized though that I wasn’t capturing a lot of interesting information in that format. So I started putting it on the Wiki and adding a lot more info. As of now, I have 28 ancestors up on the Wiki. I’ll probably post whenever I add a new ancestor. But first I’ll catch up on the ones I’ve already posted (don’t worry, not all at once.) You can of course click through on the Wiki itself and find the others, but I’ll post them here one at a time.
So of course, I must start at myself.
Samuel Antonio Minter
I was born in 1971 in Madison, Wisconsin. And I lived a bunch of places. For now I’ve left my Biography section blank. You may all feel free to add info there if you feel like it. :-)
Other than that, I think I’ll start posting the others I already have up based on a breadth first search maybe one a day (maybe more, maybe less, we’ll see). If I add new people I’ll post them immediately if I already have their direct decedent posted, otherwise they will wait a bit.
Also, despite what I said about nothing being of interest to anybody, once you get several generations down, there are lots of people looking for this kind of information. After all, once you get back six or seven (or more) generations, these folks often have many thousands of decendants. And some of those descendants will also be looking into this kind of stuff. On some of these deep relatives I have found HUNDREDS of pages on the web where people are trying to sort out what information is known about some of these people. Most duplicate each other, and for those people I’ll be duplicating too, but I’m trying to be nicely comprehensive when I can be and link to all my sources, so I might be of use to other people looking for some of these people.
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