War and Peace

Freewrite - May 5, 2015

This could almost be a war and peace story. Nathaniel and Samuel Sr in the Seven Years' War - Samuel Sr in the Revolutionary War and forced to go to Canada as a Loyalist - the sons of Samuel Jr and Betty in the Civil War (and if I remember correctly, some grandsons). Probably could fast forward to the Great War if I want to go that far with it. Unless - - it might make a good conclusion if I could find a descendant or two who were killed in the Great War. I'm just meandering - but, I might have a theme here.

The only one who did not serve in a war was the protagonist, Sam. He was too young to have remembered much about his father serving in the RW, and died before the CW began. I think. (No date of death for Samuel and Betty - but no mention of them in the 1850 census. If he was alive he would have been in his eighties.)

That reminds me - no email from the Brownville Church either. After all this time, I'm probably not going to get one.