Samuel Ward Boardman Jr In The Family Line
I advocate being systematic in family line research endeavors so I’ve decided to set a good example by writing my way backward through my ancestors in an organized way. And since I’ve written some family line stuff already about Mom (enough could never be said about her!) and since Dad, even though one of my ancestors, is still with us, I come next to my paternal grandfather, Samuel Ward Boardman, Jr. On my family tree he is actually Samuel Ward Boardman III, but he went by “Jr.” I’ve mentioned in other of my family line writings that Grandfather Boardman was born in 1874, a fact that continues to make me feel strangely connected to an era or two previous to my own. His parents were each exceptional and shall be suitably memorialized in other posts, but suffice it to say here that they were Professor Samuel Ward Boardman (II) and Sarah Elizabeth Greene Boardman. Now, look to your family tree and see if you can get that far. This family line pair brought a...