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jlf1961 -> RE: I Admit It I........ (5/7/2017 8:02:50 PM)
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ORIGINAL: WinsomeDefiance
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ORIGINAL: jlf1961
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ORIGINAL: WinsomeDefiance
I admit I hope Jlf finds relief from his pain, also I admit if he does get possession of the dark arts, he uses it to heal himself and let life deal with others.
Winsome, that would go against my nature, I am of the wolf clan of the eastern ban of the Cherokee, and my Apache clan totem is the Mexican gray wolf.
Add to that a paternal aunt swears that our Irish and Welsh ancestors have blood lines in the dark fae (explains my temper.)
Throw into that mix an Apache shaman that gave me a name that basically means that I will seek vengeance on my enemies, their families, their ancestors, their descendants, not to mention the girl they took to their high school prom and her family.
My ancestry both genetic and family trace back to some of the meanest, orneriest, down right wrong people to ever screw with. Hell my Irish ancestors fought the British for over 200 freaking years (okay granted the last male had to leave Ireland two jumps ahead of the British Army to keep from being hung for crimes against the crown, so he popped over to the colonies, and when the colonies got tired of the Brits, he marched with the Western Carolina Militia, the ones that beat Ferguson on King's Mountain and pissed on the old bugger's grave!)
I am a direct descendant of the only survivor of the Shelton Laurel Massacre (and they weren't Union sympathizers, they raided Marshal NC to get salt and other staples those bastards would not give to anyone not fighting for the south!)
I mean, this could be my family's coat of arms!
I admit I seldom read Jlf's posts without smiling. Your lineage is a proud line of ornery sons of britches.
Yup, and we are self made to boot!
Of course, there is a British ancestor in that paternal mix that basically lost his title, lands, manor (castle or whatever) for supporting Bonny Prince Charlie (still trying to figure out just why he was supporting a Scot when his holdings was in Suffolk. Of course, it might be that his wife (married in total disregard for his father and mother's wishes, was from Edinburgh) and she may have threatened him with haggis for every meal seven days a week, or he may have just decided that a Stuart would be a better ruler.
That part of the family line came to the states by way of France.
And there is the Shelton line (which my surname should actually be) who are descended from Sir John De Shelton, first lord of Shelton, granted the title from his uncle and half brother William The Bastard, aka William the Conqueror.
As for why they lost their holdings, there is some debate, some claim gambling, others claim they pissed off a king or queen (I tend to believe this, considering the males of the Shelton/Franklin line tend to be able to piss off everyone, every thing, real, imagined and mythical. In fact we pride ourselves on it!)
And the family line has its share of misfits.
One great great uncle was arrested for counterfeiting US silver dollars. The charges were dropped when it was discovered he was using 98% pure silver (the dies used to press the coins and 10 of the coins are in a museum in Madison county NC.)
There was one uncle who was busted to buck private for modifications to Sherman tanks belonging to Patton's third army. It wasnt that he was modifying them, it was that he and some of men in his unit were borrowing British army 17 pounder anti tank guns to do it. Okay, he didnt actually ask the British army if he could borrow them, he and his friends kind of saw them laying around a British army supply depot and well.....
Some of the other charges brought by Montgomery's officers included misappropriation of British fuel supplies, ammunition, replacement engine parts, food supplies (from a certain field marshal's personal pantry,) whiskey rations, and miscellaneous items that he and his friends felt would be best utilized by Patton's armored units.
The only reason he lost his commission was that Eisenhower kissed Monty's Prima donna ass in the name of diplomacy.
During the battle of the bulge, he received a field commission and left the army as a full bird.
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