Family History

My mom was recently accepted into the Steel Magnolias organization, which is a genealogy group based on women who supported a Confederate Soldier by picking up all the slack and running the households while their male counterparts were off fighting in the war. We are from Texas, so the majority of our family fought with the Confederacy. It's just the way it was. 

So, my mom's great-great-grandmother was Sara Jane Moore Rogers Bennett (that's a lot of names).  She was married to Richmond Oliver Bennett who fought in the war. There are a lot of cool stories about Richmod and his time in the service. I will try to remember to record those later, but this story is about Sara. 

Isn't it wild that my mom's great-great grandparents were alive during the way? I mean, my kids have great-great grandparents. It just doesn't seem far enough back. That's only four generations back from me.  Wild.  Wait, four? Is that right?  Yes, if they were mom's great-great, they would be my great-great-great.  Insane! 

Sara lived to be 100 years old! My grandmother remembers her because she lived with her grandparent

..... Not sure where I was going with this post. But I am going to go ahead and publish it as a reminder to revisit it one day.