Summer is in full gear, the grandson is off with his parents for summer, and projects galore around the homestead that all seem to have the same urgency are being tended to. Still, I took two days off work this week to meet up with a bunch of cousins I've never met before. My 2nd great grandmother, Mary Ann Munson had a younger brother named Franklin. Franklin and Mary Ann were two of several children of Amos Munson and Mary Ann Kerney who traveled from Trumbull County, Ohio, to Grant County, Wisconsin around 1849. Mary Ann's sister Henrietta and brother Franklin were the only ones to stay in Wisconsin. The cousins I met were descendants of Franklin.
I love Ancestry. It connected Maria and I. She was arranging a trip to Wisconsin to see her family and suggested we all get together. These folks all drove from various locations to meet up with me yesterday. I got to hear great stories about the Munson and Flansburghs, as well as other lines of their family. These folks were warm and had a great sense of humor. Lots of smart-ass going on - I'm inclined to believe it is from the Munson side were I got mine.
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| Munson Cousin Meetup Boscobel, WI Jun 2025 |
Everyone brought letters (one cousin had a 98 year old cousin write some reminisces just for us). They brought photos (marked with names), photos (not marked with names that we tried to identify), more photos and letters which all came with a story, and lots of of family lore.
We had a picnic lunch across the street from the Boscobel City Cemetery. Then, we ambled over to the cemetery and their institutional memory, Art, guided us to all the headstones. And, of course, more stories.
I have a lot of work to do when I get home with photos. Everyone was delightful, but I especially enjoyed meeting up with Maria who is bright, funny, and a little nutty about genealogy.
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