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RE: Daily Dose of Sultnpapper 01/02/19> The Texas Advantage… we are a Republic.
My great grandmother's oldest sister was born in the Kingdom of Hawaii under the reign of Queen Liliuokalani. Her father did some work for the Nation (building a couple of bridges) before he came to the US. My great grandmother was born in the state of Oregon. Her parents were Scots.
That is a neat family history, any royalty in the family?
Nope. We are all just enlisted grade :) I do have a cousin that was a lieutenant in the Army but she resigned her commission to marry a Sargent who became the senior Master Sargent of the whole damn Army.
She was a kind of black sheep cause, well, Army. We're a mostly Navy family.
All I really know about the Scottish connection is that my Great Great was the third son of Clan Ogilvy. The first son inherited, the second son went to the Church and the third son got his degree at the University of Edinburgh and a ticket. He turned out to be not only a fine Engineer but a rancher and farmer. Settled in Wasco County Oregon, then left that place to his oldest son and moved to Pilot Rock.
My great grandmother was a serious piece of work. I got to know her fairly well, she lived to be 98. I am honored to have been a pall bearer at her funeral (all grandsons and great grandsons).
Her last surviving brother rode for the King ranch there in Texas for 40 years and returned to Pendelton, Oregon where he died. My Grandmother was the executor of his estate and she delegated my Dad. He traded the guys '52 Chev and the money in his bank account for funeral expenses and I ended up with his pistol. Via my father. That would have been in the mid 70s...
The King Ranch is quite the place here in Texas, I love going to Kingsville, Tx and the ranch even has it's own breed of cattle, the Santa Gertrudis breed.
I almost went to work for the King Ranch back when Buster Welch was training their cutting horses back in the early 80's.