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    Kathleen 1-4-3
    Kathleen 1-4-3
    Kathleen 1-4-3
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    Kathleen 1-4-3

    By Chuck Walsh

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    This project did not start out to be a book. It was prompted by one of our son’s in law who didn’t want anything special for a Christmas gift in 2007. He just had a simple request for general information on what life was like growing up in the 1940’s and 1950’s. Chuck thought this project could be finished in a few weeks. Sure, just start writing, something will come to mind. The problem was that too much came to mind. Too many details were out there. So many that it would take another 48 years to write it. This project has taken on a life of its own. Every time we do a re-read we think of something that should be added.
    Also the question came to mind that this should be directed to our grandchildren rather than our own children. Why? Maybe we’re just trying to extend the reach from ancestors through descendants. If you read this at least once, every five years you will get a different perspective on life each time. Lives change – love doesn’t. This is not intended to e a widely distributed book. If we are able to accomplish it there will be just one copy for each grandchild, 14 of you at this time and one copy for each of their parents plus one each for Donnie and Pop. Who knows, not everyone gets the opportunity of living their life over again and again. We hope you kids enjoy it. We love you all.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherChuck Walsh
    Release dateSep 9, 2013
    ISBN9781301484959
    Kathleen 1-4-3
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    Chuck Walsh

    Chuck Walsh is a graduate of the University of South Carolina, and discovered a passion for writing in 2004. Since then, he has written human-interest articles for a dozen publications. He also coauthored Faces of Freedom (featured on Sean Hannity’s book list), a book that recognizes the noble lives of U.S. soldiers who died while fighting in Iraq or Afghanistan.His first fiction novel, Shadows on Iron Mountain, is about a killer roaming the backwoods of East Tennessee.He has also written A Month of Tomorrows, a memoir of sorts that weaves between the jungles of the Philippines and the rolling hills of Tennessee, seen through the eyes of Samuel Gable, a WWII war hero down to his final days on earth.Chuck lives in Columbia, SC with his wife Sandy. They have three children: Jessica, Brent, and Stephanie.Chuck, a former baseball player, is an avid fiction reader, and when he’s not working on his novels, is busy reading the works of others. His favorite writer is Cormac McCarthy, whom he considers the greatest writer of our generation.

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      Kathleen 1-4-3 - Chuck Walsh

      Kathleen 1-4-3

      By Chuck Walsh

      Copyright 2010 by Chuck Walsh

      E-Book Copyright 2013 by Chuck Walsh

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      Table of Contents

      Prologue

      First Meetings

      Donnie

      Chuck

      Your Great Grandparents

      High School for Donnie and Chuck

      Nursing School and College

      Our Wedding

      Our Kids – Your Parents

      Cars

      Food and Cooking

      Avalon

      Excursion ‘77

      Architect and Designer

      Traveling

      Kathleen’s Friends

      Your Parents’ Weddings

      Economics 101

      Close Enough to God?

      Acknowledgements

      Hourglass Tree of Charles B. Walsh

      Hourglass Tree of Kathleen M. Donohue

      Prologue

      This project did not start out to be a book. It was prompted by one of our son’s in law who didn’t want anything special for a Christmas gift in 2007. He just had a simple request for general information on what life was like growing up in the 1940’s and 1950’s. Chuck thought this project could be finished in a few weeks. Sure, just start writing, something will come to mind. The problem was that too much came to mind.

      Too many details were out there. So many that it would take another 48 years to write it.

      This project has taken on a life of its own. Every time we do a re-read we think of something that should be added.

      Also the question came to mind that this should be directed to our grandchildren rather than our own children. Why? Maybe we’re just trying to extend the reach from ancestors through descendants. If you read this at least once, every five years you will get a different perspective on life each time. Lives change – love doesn’t.

      This is not intended to be a widely distributed book. If we are able to accomplish it there will be just one copy for each grandchild, 14 of you at this time and one copy for each of their parents plus one each for Donnie and Pop. Who knows, not everyone gets the opportunity of living their life over again and again.

      We hope you kids enjoy it. We love you all.

      From: Donnie and Pop

      To: Our Five and Their Families

      Condensing our 48+ years of marriage so that you will understand your grandmother’s many abilities and unique personality is a difficult challenge. You should want to learn a little bit of your ancestry on both Donnie’s and Pop’s side along with what life was like growing up in the 1940’s and 1950’s and much more.

      In 1961, when we got married there was no how-to book on married life and there were no instructions on raising children, so we followed our own parents’ example but we introduced our own innovations. We consider ourselves so lucky that we met and married, lived for ourselves first and through our children (your parents) with all of our lives intertwined, educating them, loving them, correcting them and training them to be independent. We think ours was a very ordinary life and that millions of Americans must have had the same experiences we did. Many of our close friends have also been married 47 – 50 years and some 60+ and going strong.

      Your grandmother was the most interesting person I have ever met. I have shaken hands with two US Presidents, John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan. I spent seven hours flying on a plane seated with TV personality, Howard Cosell and have walked and talked one-on-one with the most famous professional golfer of our time, Arnold Palmer. To me, none could match your grandmother, Kathleen (Donnie Donohue) Walsh. If you have Donnie as your friend, you have someone who will stand up for you against

      any and all foes. It’s just that you wouldn’t want to cross her.

      In order to tell you about her and what she is like, I must include some of my own history. You children are not here by accident; you are loved by a whole line of ancestors.

      Don’t ever think of ignoring these cultural ancestors. It would be like posthumous mass murder. Don’t confuse change with new. What’s new never changes. It is within you, each of you. It is not a new car or a new toy. You are new each day. Don’t think that only the things in your lifetime count. Time before and time after exist.

      History runs in cycles, generations have a way of repeating their actions. Just as there are cyclical patterns in nature such as tides, night following day and seasons there are also cycles of human affairs which are approximately 80 to 100+ years or the length of a long human life. Cass and Paul, Anne and Charlie who were the parents of Donnie and Chuck were born in the G.I. generation between 1901 and 1924. Donnie and Chuck, just like everyone else, have gone through four stages of life: childhood, young adulthood, middle age and are now in elderhood. We are known as the Silent generation, born between 1925 and 1942, after us were the Boomers born, between 1945 and 1960. You grandchildren are currently in childhood and your generation is known as the Y-generation. Your parents, our five children, were born in the X-gen, between 1961 and 1981, or 13th gen, so called because they are the 13th generation to call itself American.

      The early records we have so far of unremembered ancestors list the Irish surnames of Walsh, Coyle, O’Neill, McFadden, Gallegher, McHugh,

      Riley, Donohue and others. There are actually two separate Walsh families in your background. John A. Walsh and Alice Coyle, both born in Ireland, were married in Norristown, PA in 1856 and their son Wm. John Walsh, born in Philadelphia in 1866, was your great-great-great grandfather. We also know that Nicholas Walsh, born about 1816 and Mary Anne McHugh, born about 1818 were married on Christmas day 1836 in the town of Castlebar, County Mayo, Ireland.

      Their daughter Mary Elizabeth Walsh, born in 1847 in Philadelphia was an accomplished pianist and composer. She wrote The Black Hawk Waltz a beautiful song that was learned at an early age and played all of his life by President Harry Truman. She also composed other songs and was strongly influenced by Giuseppe Verdi.

      Her elder brother was Martin Walsh who served during the US Civil War, enlisting in the Pennsylvania Cavalry Volunteers, Company K – 3rd Regiment from August 19, 1861 and mustered out on August 21, 1864. His discharge paper says that he was twenty three years old, five feet nine inches high, light complexion with blue black hair. He was a plumber when he signed up. He was an experienced cavalry soldier when he was discharged.

      The volunteers in the Cavalry were grouped by states and were often led by inexperienced officers who had no idea of leadership. They were assigned horses that were issued to them but were hardly checked by veterinarians due to unlawful horse traders. Until the Third Cavalry’s organization was completed under Col. Wm. Averill, drill and discipline had been neglected, but with his careful instruction they were made one of the most efficient and reliable of regiments. There were many who signed up on August 19, 1861 for a three year term who deserted, but not Martin Walsh. He served admirably in many battles including defenses of Washington, DC until March 1862; Advance on Manassas March 10, 1862; Battle of Williamsburg on May 5th; Richmond, VA June; Antietam and Harpers Ferry on September 17, 1862, the bloodiest single day in American history; Fredricksburg in December; Chancellorsville in April and Gettysburg July 1863. The 3rd regiment arrived on the field on July 2nd and taking position on the right flank, was immediately thrown in the way of the enemy’s cavalry, which just then advancing, and was handsomely repulsed. With pistols and sabers the regiment fought hand to hand on July 3rd. It was observed that a more magnificent saber charge than this is rarely witnessed. Twenty-four men of the 3rd regiment were either killed or wounded. Martin was a fine example as a man of courage.

      Each person communicates across a vast period of time. Just think about the oldest person who ever influenced you and extend that thought, not just to the present, but to the probable life span of

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