When she pulled her hat down, I felt surprised, but I quickly realized that this was a great move!

But you never know!

I am concerned about the fire hazard from all the hair on fire.

and he made my life great!

May it ever be so.

👍

My grandfather walked across Europe, a 14 year old orphan. He was headed to Pennsylvania where his half sister lived.

When he arrived he was so sick, underweight and lice ridden, they almost didn't let him in. An older Italian gentleman said he'd take charge and get him healthy. Which he did.

My grandfather lived to 97, raised 8 children, worked as a rail road worker, a coal miner and, finally, relocated to Flint MI and got a job at Buick, where he worked until he retired.

I'm willing to bet that a version of his life was lived by MANY other immigrants.

Literally working on the railroad all the live long day. Coal miner and lived to tell about it. Back then Buick was a quality car and he had a hand in its advance.

Men like him, women too, built this country with the sweat on their backs.

We owe them for what they've given us.

My paternal grandfather, the son of a Welsh immigrant, was a coal mine worker in Frostburg, MD just like his father and brothers. He came from a family of 13 kids. Most of the brothers and uncles worked in the mines, too, just like their the family did in Wales.

Grandpa was caught in a mine collapse but was able to escape. That made him decide that he did NOT want his son, my uncle, to be a coal miner. He'd lost his father and several brothers and cousins to 'coal miners asthma' which is what they called Black Lung Disease.

Anyway, just like my maternal grandfather, he moved his family to Flint and got a job at Buick. Both grandfathers were passing acquaintances at Buick and had no idea there would be a family connection through marriage.

I never met my maternal grandfather. He died about 6 months before I was born. However, from what I've been told about him, we are very much alike.

Thanks for sharing his life with us, my dear Siwsan!

Thank you, CaliforniaPeggy!

Hamilton and LaFayette: "Immigrants, we get the job done!"

Very thoughtful of you.

My husband's grandparents were all immigrants from Poland, and my paternal grandparents were immigrants from the UK. If it wasn't for immigrants, neither of us would be here, and (needless to say) neither would our daughter! 🇬🇧🇵🇱🇺🇸

She had a brother and sister in Toledo but there was no work there, so she went up to Detroit by herself. She answered an ad in the Lonely Hearts column and married my grandfather, who was from Russia.

My paternal grandfather was of Swedish decent and my grandmother was full-blooded Chippewa. They were from Minnesota.

So that's me - 1/4 Polish; 1/4 Russian; 1/4 Swedish; 1/4 native American; and 100% lifelong Democrat.