Here in 2019, we are embarking on a new Journey of supporting others write their powerful and healing stories about their family. At the end of 2018 spirit led us to meet with Tracie Bluse Ward, the Founder and President of Celebrations of LIfe, past, present and future author of Life Reflection Stories, Your legacy of Wisdom, c 2012-15 A workbook for sharing your experiences of life and wisdom. On page 29 she prompts us to "Create a simple family tree representing your mother's family so that loved ones know who you are referring to as they are mentioned in their stories." So having worked on genealogy for 44+ years, I know this part well. And I looked around my nest the morning during meditation, and who do I see? Peg Weaver's dad, Harry C Glessner, my maternal grandpa sitting in the living room in Faribault playing Chinese Checkers with me, his youngest grandson in 1953. The Glessners would drive or take that train from Findlay Ohio to visit us, and a couple of times each grandson, went back to Ohio to be with both sets of Grandparents, thus our connection to Ohio the birthplace of both Peg Glessner and Paul H Weaver. And here at the photos that trigger memories for me to write today.
Harry C Glessner, 1918, age 33 with an Oakland Automobile --My mom said he loved to visit California as he healed from an infection there prior to marriage ---Here is a reflection from Peg Weaver's memoir Rememberings of an 83 Year of Grandma, p 9 "GRADE SCHOOL DAYS
"Eugenia Guise, my fourth grade teacher, also taught music to all the grades at Lincoln
School. Bess Byal, my fifth grade teacher humiliated me when she announced in front of the class that all
I had to do was whine a little and my mother would let me stay home from school. Much of that year, I
felt lousy and nauseated, using the word "stuffy" to designate this feeling. I believe that I missed almost
half of that year, including a trip to California. In my grade school classes, I think that there were two
"black girls".Because meals weren't served at school, I walked home for lunch. One day, in first or second grade, I
thought it would be fun to take my lunch. When I went down to the big, basement room to eat with the
other kids, nobody was there. Not knowing that my grade had been dismissed early, I was too lonesome
and trudged home with my lunch. Every February a Valentine box was full of mostly humorous cards.
Mercer Pomeroy, who bragged about his biceps, receiving many green, flexed, upper arms."
Over the years, especially after my father died in January 1982, during a very cold winter time at Pelican Lake, Peg, my mom and I opened up to being rigorously honest. With many visits to her home and Pelican Lake and she meeting my sweat lodge, MN Hollow Horn Bear Tiospaye Sun Dance friends at the Palmer Weaver family cabins, we learned to trust each other deeply. At Sierra Tucson in Arizona on the desert in 1987, where I went to treatment for suicidal Co dependency April - May 1987, we both shared in Al Anon 12 step recovery language. She was confronted about being a "People Pleaser" by her counselor, Mary Ann, and she began to reflect on her behavior around her high functioning alcoholic medical doctor husband, and as I came out as a gay, two spirited son and father, she was a great listener and learned to not judge and focus on her own recovery. What an amazing gift to have 1987 - 2007. 20 years of an honest relationship between mom and son! Very grateful indeed .
My mom commented on this in her memoir and has a description on page 135 (photos separate in her self made book from 1993. Here is her text from Rememberings - p 31 PEG MARRIED PETE
My parents didn't want me to marry someone who was still in school, someone who wasn't established and doing well financially. My mother didn't think I was prepared to get married because I didn't know
how to cook. My reply: "any one who can read can cook". Since she didn't use a cookbook, she didn't
understand. One of parent's great concerns was that I would become pregnant while Pete was in school
and while I was working. Pete and I put forth arguments for getting married while he was in school: that there were good
birth-control procedures; that it would cost us no more to be married and live together than to live
separately; that I would continue to support myself and Pete's parents had agreed to continue to support
him until he finished Medical School, as they would have done if he hadn't married. My parents made a
trip to West Carrollton to try to convince Pete's parents to discourage and disapprove of our marriage.
At age twenty-five we could not be dissuaded from being married at the beginning of Pete's sophomore
year in Medical School. Married students were not common in those days, only three married couples in
Pete's class.
We were married at the First Presbyterian Church, Findlay, Ohio, in the late afternoon of September 14,
1935, with the Reverend John David Lindsay officiating in a double ring ceremony. Though my parents
were disappointed in not having a big wedding for their daughter, a wedding with white wedding gown and a large wedding party, they agreed to a simple affair. I thought that a pretentious ceremony would be
in appropriate for a student and his bride and I preferred more practical spending of money. On the
morning of my wedding day, my father was a bit nervous, driving through a red traffic signal. No invitations were sent, the custom of open church being observed, an announcement placed in the
Findlay paper to that effect.(see Rememberings of a 83 year old Grandma
Having traced the Glessners back to Pennsylvania during my 44 + years of Genealogical Research - I had to find the Glessner Covered Bridge in Somerset Co......my ancestors were all German farmers and here is may family tree with me at the 7th Generation! Mitakuye Oyasin
Harry Glessner gave to his 3 grandkids, 100 shares each of Detroit Edison Stock in 1967, worth $10,000 each. I was 20 and at Carleton College, Jack 23-4 and living in Illinois Monmouth area, Jim was living out east and newly married. We pooled our resources to buy 90 acres of land on big Pelican Lake for $27,000 and the rest is history of how we worked together to rent the Palmer cabins and then went our separate ways. Harry C Glessner carried on the Glessner Medicine company that his father LC Glessner created in the late 1800's. He liquidated the company in the 1960's and the family got Royalities for many years. Thanks Grandpa Harry for your values and teaching about business.
Glessner Descendants Chart Johann George 7 generations created through Tom Weaver Dec 2016
Johann Georg GLAESENER
b.
1693, Straßen, Neuwied,
Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany
d. 1
Apr 1783, Straßen, Neuwied,
Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany
& Barbara WERNET
b.
1690, Elm, Main-Kinzig-Kreis, Hessen, Germany
m.
1715, Koellin, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany
| Heinrich (Henry) Johann Glessner - 1st Glessner with brother Jacob to
emigrate from Germany to PA
| b. 1728, Bingen Am Rhein, Germany
| d. 14 May 1814, Brothersvalley Twp,
Someret Co PA
| &
Anna Elizabeth ADAM
| b. 25 Jul 1734, Germany
| d. 21 Mar 1802, Brothers Valley Twp,
Somerset, PA
| m. bef 1761, Germany
| | Peter
(Petrus) Glessner*
2nd gen farmer moved to OH from PA
| | b. 1 Sep 1767, Somerset PA
| | d. 15 Apr 1836, Columbiana Co OHio
| | &
Margaret (Margaretha) "Peggy" SCHAAFEN (SCHAAF)
| | b. 27 Oct 1777, Someret Co PA
| | d. 1 Aug 1845, Columbiana Co OHio
| | m. 1818, Columbiana Co OHio
| | | Lewis
Glessner – 3rd
Gen farmer,postmaster Delaware OH, 1861 Findlay OH newpaper editor
| | | b. 1 Sep 1811, Somerset PA
| | | d. 3 Mar 1879, Findlay OH
| | | &
Georgiana COWLES
| | | b. 18 Feb 1820, Delaware OH
| | | d. 30 Sep 1907, Findlay OH
| | | m. 8 Apr 1838, Delaware OH
| | | | Leonard
Cowles Glessner 4th
gen newspaper editor IL, MO, Glessner Co Findlay OH
| | | | b. 17 Mar 1853, Delaware OH
| | | | d. 11 Dec 1936, Findlay OH
| | | | &
Emeline “Emma” CHAPPELEAR
| | | | b. 25 Aug 1855, Camden Point, Platte,
MO
| | | | d. 7 Jul 1929, Findlay, Hancock
Co, OH
| | | | m. 12 Sep 1877, Farmer City, DeWitt,
Illinois
| | | | | Harry
Chappelear Glessner 5th
Gen – Glessner Med Co, President Findlay
| | | | | b. 17 Aug 1885, Sedalia MO
| | | | | d. 27 Sep 1973, Blanchard Valley
Hospital, Findlay OH
| | | | | &
Inez CHASE
| | | | | b. 8 Feb 1888, Findlay OH
| | | | | d. 12 Dec 1978, Findlay OH
| | | | | m. 25 Mar 1908, Findlay OH
| | | | | | Margaret
Mary Glessner 6th Gen – 1st
College Ed Oberlin 1932
| | | | | | b. 3 Jun 1910, Findlay, Hancock, OH
| | | | | | d. 10 Aug 2007, Eden Prairie MN
| | | | | | &
Paul Henry Weaver
| | | | | | b. 24 Dec 1910, West Carrollton,
Montgomery, OH
| | | | | | d. 29 Jan 1982, St Josephs Hospital
Brainerd MN
| | | | | | m. 14 Sep 1935, Findlay OH
| | | | | | | Thomas
Glessner Weaver Glessner 7 th Gen
| | | | | | | b. 18 Feb 1947, St Lucas Hospital,
Faribault Minnesota
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