Four Grandmas

My Grandmother, Anne Elizabeth Smart Brady was born in America. Her mother, Mary Smart came to America from England. In the late 1800’s, my grandfather, Thomas F. Brady started his family with his wife, Anne and her mother,  Mary Smart, and  in those days,  a mother-in-law  and baby sitter and all around  best of help, was  ” extra”  good. I call that the Smart Move to make, especially when your, ” future”  brings to you 13 children. Three sets of twins , no  “extra”  charge.

My mother, Marie Brady, was thirteenth. The number “13” shows up a lot in our family. When my mother arrived in 1900, and several of her brothers were already married, family and friends could hardly believe “old” Mrs. Brady was the “mama”. (Pictures to show up later).

In those days, the last girl in the family was the “insurance card” . What that meant was she could go to school, college, business, and learn everything, but she had to live at home, look and dress well, and in their case belong to the “500 club”.


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Thank you.

Before anything, I must say how grateful and thankful…  I am for and to my children and grandchildren for all their help, and most of all, Glory Be to our Almighty Yahweh!

Have to add a footnote as of this date April 20th 2021 … I now have two Great  GrandChildren and would you believe,  as I look out the window… it is SNOWING and very cold… and yesterday it was in the high 70’s  as I was walking as Alan was riding his bike… and then…  KING Al,  came on along riding his bike… it was a great day to be out and enjoying the  very nice warm weather yesterday!


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