From the time we were little, my sister, brothers and I heard stories about our parents’ families. My dad’s uncle Clint Jolly was struck by lightning several times in his life before dying young of a stomach ulcer in the 1920s. One of my mom’s great great grandfathers, Ulrich Wallberg, a Baptist preacher barely escaping from Sweden in the 1850s with his 4 children (apparently they weren’t very welcoming to Baptists then). Or the Wulfestieg clan who left Germany in the early 1800s to settle in Brazil then later leaving for America. (more…)
