The story I was told was that my grandmother suffered from epilepsy and back then I suppose it was classified as mental illness. My grandfather had her institutionalized( Abt 1926). My grandfather sent the two older boys (One was my father) to live with my grandmothers family. My grandfather had met a waitress, who knew a family that would take the youngest boy. It was to be until he could take care of them. When he went back, he was told that the child had died.
My father married my mother and they had three children, my self being the youngest. My mother said that they visited her most every weekend and had picnic's. My mother said there was nothing wrong with her, that she seemed fine and loved her grandchildren. Just before I was born around 1951, My dad set out to try and find his baby brother because they never believed he had died. At the same time he was looking for his family because he found out that he had been adopted. I am not sure who found who first. He was taken to see his mother (my grandmother) and she started crying and said she never believed he had died. It was a great reunion.
******James Robert Armstrong was born Jimmy Timmy Bethurum. He was adopted very young to the Armstrong's.*******
My father married my mother and they had three children, my self being the youngest. My mother said that they visited her most every weekend and had picnic's. My mother said there was nothing wrong with her, that she seemed fine and loved her grandchildren. Just before I was born around 1951, My dad set out to try and find his baby brother because they never believed he had died. At the same time he was looking for his family because he found out that he had been adopted. I am not sure who found who first. He was taken to see his mother (my grandmother) and she started crying and said she never believed he had died. It was a great reunion.
******James Robert Armstrong was born Jimmy Timmy Bethurum. He was adopted very young to the Armstrong's.*******
The story I was told was that my grandmother suffered from epilepsy and back then I suppose it was classified as mental illness. My grandfather had her institutionalized( Abt 1926). My grandfather sent the two older boys (One was my father) to live with my grandmothers family. My grandfather had met a waitress, who knew a family that would take the youngest boy. It was to be until he could take care of them. When he went back, he was told that the child had died.
My father married my mother and they had three children, my self being the youngest. My mother said that they visited her most every weekend and had picnic's. My mother said there was nothing wrong with her, that she seemed fine and loved her grandchildren. Just before I was born around 1951, My dad set out to try and find his baby brother because they never believed he had died. At the same time he was looking for his family because he found out that he had been adopted. I am not sure who found who first. He was taken to see his mother (my grandmother) and she started crying and said she never believed he had died. It was a great reunion.
******James Robert Armstrong was born Jimmy Timmy Bethurum. He was adopted very young to the Armstrong's.*******
My father married my mother and they had three children, my self being the youngest. My mother said that they visited her most every weekend and had picnic's. My mother said there was nothing wrong with her, that she seemed fine and loved her grandchildren. Just before I was born around 1951, My dad set out to try and find his baby brother because they never believed he had died. At the same time he was looking for his family because he found out that he had been adopted. I am not sure who found who first. He was taken to see his mother (my grandmother) and she started crying and said she never believed he had died. It was a great reunion.
******James Robert Armstrong was born Jimmy Timmy Bethurum. He was adopted very young to the Armstrong's.*******
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