The honor of being the first side of the family to be added to the Ginn Griffith O'Brien family tree (in the remainder of this post to be referred to as the GGOB Tree) has gone to my father, Floyd Bowman Ginn, Sr.
| Generation One: GINN, Floyd Bowman Sr. was born 16 Jul 1922, Charters, Lewis, Kentucky, USA (son of GINN, Thomas Fred and BROWN, Ada Esther); died 14 May 2004, Garrison, Lewis, Kentucky, USA; was buried 16 May 2004, Quincy, Lewis, Kentucky, USA.Floyd married THOMAS, Ardalia Buemont (Beaumont)29 Sep 1939 (elopement), unknown. Ardalia was born 22 Mar 1924,
Burtonville, Lewis, Kentucky, USA; died 29 Sep 2003, Portsmouth, Scioto,
Ohio USA; was buried Quincy, Lewis, Kentucky, USA. [Group Sheet] Children:
Floyd Bowman Ginn was the eldest son of Thomas Fred Ginn and Ada Esther Brown. He was born at home, in Charters, KY. He grew up during the Great Depression. He married young, and since there was disapproval from both sides because of their age, he and my mother eloped. For the first part of their marriage, they lived with Fred and Ada Ginn (as shown in the 1940 census). They were married 29 September 1939. My parents had their first two children (not named because they are living) while living with my grandparents, and when my father left to fight in WWII, he left his family in their care. My father was in the army during WWII. He was in the http://www.69th-infantry-division.com/histories/272.html, (Battle Axe Infantry). He used to keep the book (the first one in the link above) in the dresser drawer at the foot of his bed. I used to love to read it. After I got married and moved away, one of the first things that I would do when I came home each year was get that book out and read it. That and a bunch of newspaper clippings that my mom used to have about my dad's time in the war from Stars and Stripes and other sources. All of these things disappeared just after my father died. His feet were severely frostbitten, and he was in a military hospital until the end of the war. At some point, my father moved his family out of his parents house. But they did not move very far away. They ended up less than a quarter mile away from his parents. The first house that they lived in at this site was very small. By the time I was born, my father had begun work on his cinderblock house with four bedrooms, a living room, an eat in kitchen, and a bathroom. This is the house that I remember. It was completed when I was about two years old, because I have seen pictures of me playing in front of the old house. The cinderblock house was always my home. My parents lived there until the day they died. My father always had two jobs for as long as I can remember. He would get up very early in the morning to go to work at the Portsmouth Casting Company. He would come home from work at his first job about three in the afternoon, then he would start his second job...being a farmer. He worked both his farm and his father's. They had livestock...cows, pigs, and chickens. They grew their own hay to feed the livestock, and would sell of what they didn't need. They also grew tobacco on both farms. They grew corn for feeding livestock, and corn for us. Dad used to have a roadside stand where he would sell corn, eggs, tomatoes, cucumbers...but he always took care of us too. Every year there was canning to be done...tomatoes, corn, cabbage, jelly, hot peppers. He used to make "hot sauerkraut", a recipe that came from his sister, where you would put hot peppers in to cure with the sauerkraut, and when you put it on hot dogs, it was out of this world. My parents loved all of their children. They didn't have to say it. You could feel it, like something tangible in the air that would wrap itself around you and let you know that everything was going to be okay. They loved us and they loved each other. The only time my father and mother were apart was when he went off to fight in WWII. When my brother Bub (Arthur Lewis Ginn in the list above) was injured in a car accident in the eighties, they kept him at home and took care of him for the rest of their lives. My mother died first. She died on their 64th wedding anniversary, 29 Sept 2003. Dad wasn't the same after that. He missed her terribly. Dad died on 14 May 2004.
Floyd Ginn Sr.
1922-2004
Floyd Ginn Sr., 81, of Garrison, died Friday, May 14, 2004, at his residence. He was preceded in death by his wife, Ardalia B. Ginn. Funeral services will be at 1 p.m. Monday, May 17, 2004, at Garrison Funeral Chapel with Hillary Underwood and Tim Underwood officiating. Burial will be at Sunset Cemetery at Quincy. Friends may call from 6 to 9 p.m. today, May 16, 2004, and Monday, May 16, 2004, from 10 a.m. until the time of service at the funeral home. |
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