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I Am The Youngest Of Five Children Essay

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* Due to my decision to obtain my B.S. while in my dotage and the fact that youngest of my ancestors were born in the early 20th century, most of the information in this paper comes from personal memories, stories I heard in my youth and independent research of my family tree. I talked with my mother, but time has erased many of her memories. It was November 14, 1969 when I made my uneventful entrance into the world and was immediately bestowed the unfortunate name of Bruce Bernard Barrett. I am the youngest of five children born to Alba Gaylord Barrett (September 11, 1925- February 14, 1994) and Emilie (Diehm) Barrett (June 3, 1936- present) At the time of my birth, my father was 45 and my mother was 33. I was born in Charleston, WV and grew up near my father’s childhood home in Braxton County, WV.
Distant Ancestry I am second-generation American on my maternal side but my father’s side can be traced back to Colonial America, specifically Colonial Virginia. My family stayed largely within the same 50-mile geographical area in Western Virginia through Virginia’s statehood and the subsequent formation of West Virginia during the Civil War. My paternal ancestors were of English and Welsh decent with the notable exception of my second great-grandfather, Isaac Willoughby,. Issac was born in Monaghan, Ireland in 1829 and immigrated to the United States during the height of the Potato Famine in 1848. Isaac worked his passage from Ireland to New York on the Jenny Lind

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