Today is...

Allan's birthday! Happy birthday, Allan!

Missing any mail?

This year it'll be ten years since we bought the Sprucewood house. Recently we rented it out and had all mail forwarded to Utah. Weeks went by and no mail arrived. Finally the US Mail service managed to get one piece to us... addressed to William Tidd of Tirel Corporation.

Then came the Christmas card to Betty & Jim Tidd from their good friends the Ewells who live in the town next to us here in Utah. It was strange getting a card that had traveled so far for someone else and from someone so close. We didn't get many Christmas cards this year so it was appreciated nonetheless.

Since then we've gotten shopping fliers for Cy, a BYU magazine for John, something for Allan (can't remember what) and an AARP card for.... well, let's not reveal anyone's age here...

The really strange thing is why we don't get anything for Allison. Doesn't she care about us?

Oh, and eventually we did get some mail for Jeff & Monique Tidd.

Happy Valentine's Day

What? No chocolate for me on Valentine's Day??? I'll get you!!!!

Happy Valentine's Day everyone!

-Ava

Adrian Comes Home

After serving as a missionary for two years in Washington state, Adrian arrived in Salt Lake City Tuesday afternoon...

Kimball Family Line

Here's the Kimball line as best as I can tell... A little town information follows...

Elizabeth Nelson Kimball

Born 26, June 19?, Haverhill, Mass.

Herbert Amos Kimball

Born 30 May, 1915, Haverhill, Mass.

Leonard Hazen Kimball

Born 24 July, 1879, Haverhill, Mass.

Frederick Kimball

Born 31 July, 1841, Haverhill, Mass.

Hazen Kimball

Born 26 Nov, 1792, Haverhill, Mass.

Benjamin Kimball

Born 26 Aug, 1756, Haverhill, Mass.

Richard Kimball

Born 13 October, 1732, Bradford, Mass.

Richard Kimball

Born 30 December, 1654, Ipswich, Mass. or Rowley, Mass.

Benjamin Kimball

Born 16 May, 1637, Ipswich, Mass.

Richard Kimball

Born 1595, Rattlesden, Suffolk, England

Henry Harrye Kimball

Born 4 January, 1565, Brettenham, England

Henry Kimball

Born about 1510, Hitcham, Suffolk, England

Henry Kimball

Born about 1460, Hitcham, Suffolk, England

John Kimball

Born about 1428, Hitcham, Suffolk, England

Thomas Kimball

Born about 1396, Hitcham, Suffolk, England

Thomas Kimball

Born 1370, Hitcham, Suffolk, England

William Kembold

Born about 1337, Hitcham, Suffolk, England

Simon Kembold

Born about 1307, Hitcham, Suffolk, England

Bradford was originally part of the town of Rowley, and was called "Rowley on the Merrimack", "Rowley Village by the Merrimack", "Merrimac Lands", or just "Merrimack". The east parish of Bradford (established in 1726) separated in 1850 and was incorporated as the town of Groveland on March 8, 1850. The remaining west part of Bradford was annexed to the city of Haverhill in 1897.

Ipswich was founded in 1630, 7 years before Benjamin Kimball was born there.

Hitcham, England is 80 miles NE of London.

The Tidds

Here's the Tidd family line as best as I can tell. I'd like to verify the older portion of the line in England because the locations jump around a bit too much for my liking. Coming up next.... the Kimball line back to 1307....

James Alfred Tidd

Born 16 Jun, 1944, Georgetown, Mass.

Ellsworth Hartley Tidd

Born 16 Feb, 1920, Boston Mass

Alfred Elmer Tidd

Born 27 August, 1893, Monson, ME

Elmer Ellsworth Tidd

Born 12 Mar, 1864, Haverhill, Mass.

Cyrus Tidd

Born 5 Nov, 1828, Georgetown, Mass.

Samuel Charles Tidd

Born 1784, Woburn, Mass.

Samuel Tidd

Born 1758, Rowley, Mass.

(Lieut) Jonathan Tidd

Born 7 Nov, 1724, Woburn, Mass.

Ebenezer Tidd

Born 1690, Woburn, Mass.

John Tidd

Born 26 Feb, 1654, Woburn, Mass.

John Tidd

Born 1618, Ipswich, England

John Tidd

Christening 1594, West Riding, Yorkshire, England

John Tidd

Born 1563, Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, England

Mr. Tidd

Born 4 May, 1534, Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, England

South of Libreville?

From Joe Wilson's book the Politics of Truth:

"In August, 1992, I arrived in Libreville, the capital of Gabon as the newly minted ambassador...

...Gabon is best known internationally as the site of the leper hospital and mission of Nobel Peace Prize winner Albert Schweitzer, in Lamberene. The country sits astride the equator on the west coast of Africa. On the north side of the equator, water goes down the drains counterclockwise; on the south side, clockwise, and on the equator itself, straight down, a phenomenon easily tested by driving just an hour from Libreville. A mere flush of a toilet would tell you which hemisphere you were in - that is, if you could find a proper flush toilet in the lightly populated nation."