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This charming little
"children's booklet," just 2½ by 3¾ inches and
now almost 200 years old, was recently found in the large
amount of my family's memorabilia spanning the 19th and 20th
century, which includes many books and pictures dating to
before the civil war, personal diaries of ancestors,
genealogy pie charts detailing our family tree (meticulously
compiled by my brother before the help of the internet),
World War I and World War II articles and correspondence,
and much more.
At the top of the cover page, you can see the faint image of
the name Benj. P. Burpee. Benjamin Pratt Burpee (Aug
27, 1818-Nov 8, 1888) was my great great grandfather. This
little booklet evidently belonged to him when he was six or
seven years old. What a little treasure to find!
One of Benjamin Pratt Burpee's children
was William Byron Burpee (September 8, 1864-September 12,
1932). William had one child, my grandfather Benjamin
Prescott Burpee (March 20, 1889-Nov. 27, 1958) For
more family fun, see Topsys & Turvys,
1893, which belonged to my grandfather and The
Birds' Christmas Carol, 1929, owned by my mother. |
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