My son Shawn called me saying "hey dad did you know there is another you in this world". Well on line there is a Ron Tidrow who advertises himself as "Arrosmith Leather". so I dropped him an e-mail and got this response: My brother, who lives in the Detroit area, has taken the family tree back to 1810 in Virginia.
I do not know the history well, but I know there were some that moved westward from Virginia and then went thru Ky, Ohio, Ind & into ILL by the 1850's.
We know that a John Tidrow (b.1838-40?) served in the 4th ILLINOIS Calvary as part of Grant's guards all the way to the battle of Vicksburg in 1863.
My grandfather (1891-1992) remembered, as a boy, hearing talk of Uncle John(d. 1904?), the Calvary veteran. He was born in Nebraska, lived in Kansas City , St Louis, and retired in Detroit & then Florida.
I grew up on the north edge of Detrioit & went to school & university there. After living in the Boston area for a bit, I moved to Canada in the early 70's. By the mid-70's I was producing leatherwork & attending craft festivals & events throughout southern Ontario. Did that for 30 years.
Well I find this pretty cool to be in two places at once. He seems to be a nice fellow, maybe I get him to make me a belt with my name on, no I mean our name on it!
As for regular life Mike is taking his Army physical today so who knows what gives with that. I only wish he wanted to be something like doctor, lawyer, medic, computer guy, rather than an army scout. Shawn is moving to his own apartment in 9 days and is anxious to get there. Strat sent me a case no so that I can get all my lost codes restored, that is a relief. Oh and lets make it offical I hate my new computer, whish I never bought it. I would have been better off donating it to the church or something.
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