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To: cripplecreek

Wow. I wonder if Charles took it personally.


5 posted on 06/03/2014 7:28:32 PM PDT by Fester Chugabrew
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To: Fester Chugabrew

Probably not. From what we can find, Granddad started out as a Polish Jew named Grabski who ended up in Austria as Johannes Hartmann before setting sail for Canada from Antwerp. By the time he got to Detroit he was John which is where I got my name. He was only 12 years old when he arrived in Detroit with a man who was apparently just acting as his father for the trip and then disappeared.

The SS Mount Temple is the ship he arrived on and its on the bottom of the Atlantic full of dinosaur bones. It was sunk by the Germans in WWI.


7 posted on 06/03/2014 7:48:37 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin.)
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