Thanks Joann for hooking me up with more Perrett Relatives!

April 1, 2011

Sometimes you get on a roll and the world opens up.  Joann Palileo who was born in the Philippines (one of OUR PERRETT relatives) and lives in the states, sent a friend suggestion to some of the relatives she knows there still.  I heard from Alena Gale Palileo Yabes first - and now she has friended me to even more.  I am so blessed.  If you are on FB, please friend me and her if you aren't already.

Alena lives in Maitum, Sarangani Province, the same province where Manny Pacquaio lives (boxing hero worldwide who is now their congressman).  Mae Perrett Palileo is her grandmother.  Mae had 5 children:
1.  Danny, 2.  Allan, 3. Edward, 4. Phillip and then our baby 5. Joann!!!

Alena's dad is Allan.  He married Erlinda Zita, commonly known as Ching.  They have four children:
1.  Alena who has two children Vincy 2, and Allan 1. 
2.  Eilleen "Yeye" who ha two daughters, Nicole 9 and Twyla, 5
3.  Zeejay who is an RN and is in the UK
4.  Francis who is 17 and still in college (civil engineering).

Alena is a lawyer who practices in Maitum and goes by "Gale" and her husband is a businessman. 

She also informed me that in their culture it is appropriate to affix a title to a name, relative or not, aunt, uncle, as long as they're older.  That cleared up how three other young people there have been referring to me as "aunt" !!!  Hey I love it, so I'll take it.

GET on FACEBOOK and friend us,,,,please!!!

IT'S ALMOST TIME

MOON PERRETT FAMILY - WE HAVE ONE WEEK LEFT UNTIL THE FUN BEGINS.  SEE YOU SATURDAY, JULY 17, 2010 AROUND 10:00 A.M. - WE WILL EAT AT NOON.  CANE CREEK FRIENDS MEETING IN SNOW CAMP, NC.

MOST OUT OF TOWN FAMILY ARE STAYING AT COMFORT SUITES.  THERE SHOULD BE SOME MINI-REUNIONS GOING ON. 

LOVE YOU ALL  - BE SAFE IN YOUR TRAVELS!

Reunion - Yippee JULY 17, 2010

Emails, phone calls are coming in from all around the United States - from family members that are attending the Moon-Perrett Reunion.  Majority are staing at Comfort Suites in Graham - mini family reunions before and after the actual event.  There are new faces this go round - you'd better make an effort to be there.  I'm excited!

Shirley (Moon) Osborne has graciously volunteered to help me with set up that morning and furnish ice....David Vaughn graciously volunteered to do prizes....cups/plates/napkins/silverware are purchased - games for the young (young at heart) are ready for the outside area.....  all we are missing is food and YOU!!!!     A donation bucket will be set out to help defray costs (Fellowship Hall and other miscellaneous sundries). 

Aren't we so blessed to have a wonderful family!   Love you - see you July 17th - fun starts at 10:00 a.m. - lunch around noon and an afternoon packed with lots of family hugging/kissing/sharing the events of the last few years. 

ARE YOU ATTENDING:

THE MOON-PERRETTS HAVE STARTED CALLING/EMAILING/ETC.  TO TELL ME THAT THEY AND THEIR FAMILY MEMBERS ARE COMING.  I'M  GETTING EXCITED ABOUT THIS.    I HEARD FROM MARGARET JORDAN YESTERDAY WHO CERTAINLY IS EXCITED ABOUT ATTENDING THIS EVENT. 

THIS IS A TIME FOR MINI-REUNIONS FOR INDIVIDUAL BRANCHES OFF THE OLD TREE TOO, SO........HAVE YOU MADE YOUR RESERVATIONS YET? 

Come on Moon-Perretts

Join this blogside - it's not going to bite you.  This is a great way to connect with other family members.  Information about our relatives here - plus news of this reunion and some shots of prior reunions.

I will be 60 this year - if I can blog - YOU CAN TOO!

Scroll down the page on the right hand side you will see the many pages that are already on the site.  Click on the older dates for lots of entries.   Check it out!  Three followers at this point - don't let your relatives be more computer savy than you!!!!!

Love you!
Sue

July 17, 2010 Moon-Perrett Reunion

Time is tickin'  and the Moon-Perrett Reunion will be here before we know it.  I've heard from many out of town relatives who plan to attend.  Please pass the information on to all the relatives in "your neck of the woods" so that we don't miss anyone.  This promises to be a fun-packed day for all of us.   Don't forget your HUGE picnic basket filled with goodies and drinks.  We hope to make a day of it and those who want can visit the Snow Camp house, the cemetery where many of the Perretts are buried and then the Sword of Peace that night.  There is a restaurant at the Sword of Peace also - in case you are tired of picnic foods by nighttime. 

YOU GUYS ARE COMING HOME!!!!  WE'RE SO THANKFUL FOR FAMILY!

July will be here before you realize!

I plan to send a bulk email again after Easter - reminding everyone of the Snow Camp Reunion in Snow Camp on July 17, 2010. 

I have found badminton equipment as well as several other outdoor games for the younger set to enjoy while we oldies sit around and talk about the good old days!

The Sword of Peace schedule for 2010 is also out and I will attach that in case your family wants to view that.  There is also a restaurant at the Sword of Peace if you are tired of reunion food by that night. 

Life is good! 

Inez Johnson Waller - Our 100 year old young relative

This week I received a real treat in my mailbox - a letter from one of our relatives, Inez Johnson Waller, who was born August 3, 1909 - YES, that makes her 100. Ina B. gave her my name and contact information. Ina's daughter, Paula lives about an hour drive away from her. She currently resides at Green Ridge Gilliland Manor 210 Big Spring Road # 109 Newville, PA 17241. She lived in Asheville for 72 years, her husband passed in 1985 and she moved to Carlisle in 2001 to be near Nancy.

Jesse Taylor Johnson was her grandfather (married Louise Jane Carter) . Son William Hampton Johnson was her father - he married Alice Melvin in 1906. Sallie Sarah (Johnson) Perrett who was my great grandmother was Jesse Taylor Johnson's sister.

Inez was looking for pictures of her grandfather's siblings and I do have a few shots, plus information from the family tree, so I've printed off the information and am sending to her today. Inez tells me she had only two sisters, neither of whom never married. One sister, Jewel, and Inez were born in Gibsonville and lived in Greensboro most of the time. Inez's parents are buried at Pleasant Hill Cemetery (Snow Camp, but a Liberty address). Inez used to go to the Johnson reunions and she remembers Sarah McPherson from Snow Camp who took her to visit some of the cousins on her father's side. She remembers visiting Flossie (Moon) Bare also.

I think it is wonderful that she has made contact and if you are reading this blog, I encourage you to write to her. She's a remarkable lady. BLESSINGS INEZ!!

Thomas McBane June Carol Mc Bane Lena Moon - Black & White Memories

It has snowed here twice in the past week, so I've been into the old folders that mom had with black and white negatives. You can scan and invert the photo and actually get a pretty good shot of things.

This is Lena Moon - Thomas McBane and June Carol McBane. A shot of Thomas on the bike and Lena Moon on the porch waving. Thomas and June Carol from a front view.

Thomas passed recently - and I know there was a reunion in heaven.  Whisper a prayer for his wife, Sugar and his boys, Tommy and Richard.  Rest in Peace, Thomas!

Recognize this Red Hat

There is a DIVA in our lineage......Look for her at the Reunion!

Moon Perrett Reunion July 15 1995 Candid Shots

The 1995 reunion was the first one that I planned - in honor of my mother's birthday on July 16th . Looking back, it seems like just yesterday, but by the time July rolls around - it has been 15 years......

Look closely some of you younger Moon-Perretts - you were just a kid.... and those of you my age, well we haven't changed a bit have we.

5 - 10 - 12 - 15 The Remaining Children

There are four infant deaths recorded in the family record for Achsa Beatrice Perrett and Ed Moon, All boys according to what Danny Moon told me at the last reunion. One of the infants I had a name for, but not the remaining three:

5 - Baby Boy Infant lived 9 days
10 - Walter - infant death
12 - Baby Boy - infant death
15 - Baby Boy - infant death

One can only imagine how quickly 15 pregnancies would deplete the nutrients a woman needs - during a time when they didn't have prenatal vitamins or iron pills or Boost or other vitamin drinks. Remember how tired you were caring for one infant - then think about being pregnant or caring for small children from 9 months before the birth of Penie on April 17, 1896 until the birth of child 15 - Baby Boy Infant Death sometime after Wade was born (Jan 5 - 1921). That by any measure is a lot of stress on the body, mind and soul!

Rest in Peace - Achsa!

11 - James "Jim" Delacy Moon

James "Jim" Delacy Moon was the eleventh child born to Ed Moon & Achsa Beatrice Perrett on September 10, 1915 in Snow Camp, NC. He died May 6, 1974 in Orlando Florida at the age of 58.

Jim first married Mabel St. Clair and later, Alma Fullington. He lived in Orlando Florida during his later years (this is hard to say - he was a year younger than I am now when he passed). The thing I remember most about Jim and Alma was they always had a dog in tow. When I was about 9, our family along with Aunt Lena and Uncle Clyde traveled to see them in Florida on Christmas Day - what were they thinking ---- hours on the road and no bathrooms or eating places open. I've never been back to Florida since that trip.

Jim and Alma are buried in Alamance Memorial Park in Burlington, NC.

Remaining Moon-Perrett Kids Pose

This shot is one of the four remaining Moon kids at some gathering. Front row seated L-R is Clady Moon McBane, then Ava Moon McVey (my mom); back row L-R is Lena Moon Griffin and cutie pie Wade Moon.

These folks all look alike!!! Check out their youthful shots for fun.

Midway Sunday Afternoon - Moons Stop Traffic

OK - here is where I really could use some help - if you recognize anyone. Several of them I do - these are from Sallie Moon's photos and she seemed to have more pictures in the family box that I have than anyone else. Sallie is in the middle row - far left - Flossie is Beside her and I think Dallie is on the end of the same row.

The back row far left is Ed McBane, then in the center is Clady and beside her is Lena. I do not know anyone else but these people are in lots of the photos. It's a shame they weren't my mom's. She labeled everything her entire life - so there was no question about who is this.

Moons And Some Spouses

A grainy shot but I could recognize some people: L-R John, and I believe Dallie peeking over his shoulder), then Clyde Griffin, Lena Moon Griffin, Clady Moon McBane and Allen; Vesta and Sam Moon; Curtis I think.... (the photo says Wendell - but I don't think that's him or that my mother had met him at that point ini time) behind Penie, Ava and Jim.
This house looks a little like the one that was beside the store in Snow Camp - that I think some of them lived in at one point. I don't know though. Those of you interested in ancestry - get interested while someone who is still living can tell you what the deal is. I wish that I had.

All dressed up - that's what strikes me in all these old photos - people use to dress up - boy has that gone out the window. They didn't have much - but boy are they are fine looking bunch!

Clady, Flossie and Lena Moon

Clady, Flossie and Lena - three sisters who stood by each other all the way to the end. Family!

A Good Looking Group

This picture is not clear - but I can pick out several of the Moon children. Lena and Clady are in the front row and I believe on the second row are Dallie (hand on Jim's head?) Flossie, John and Sam. The lady on the back row left is Annie Thompson.

If you recognize someone, please let me know!

My Little Heart Throb!

This blog would be incomplete without me posting my newest heart throb since March 12, 2009. Meet my Granddaughter - Jasey. Yes, that is the "Moon" redhead gene coming through there. Can't wait for you to meet her in July. She has totally changed my life.

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