Relatively Speaking

Click the links below to download chapters of my book, Grandma and Me. The chapters are in PDF format, so you must have Adobe Reader installed to open them.

• Introduction
• Part I: Generation 1: Amanda Myrtie Crabtree
  • Chapter 1: Amanda Myrtie Crabtree
  • Chapter 2: Harry Irwin Briggs
  • Chapter 3: Mr. and Mrs. H. I. Briggs and Family
  • Chapter 4: Irwin and Myrtie on Their Own
  • Chapter 5: The Briggs Children
  • Chapter 6: Grandma “Go” Briggs
  • Chapter 7: Myrtle and her Adult Children
• Part II: Generation 2: Myrtie’s Parents John George Lewis Crabtree and Ida Emily Higginson
  • Chapter 1: John L. Crabtree, Birth to Marriage 1855-1890
  • Chapter 2: Ida Higginson, Birth to Marriage 1855-1890
  • Chapter 3: Mr. and Mrs. John L. Crabtree and Family
  • Chapter 4: Children of John and Ida Crabtree
• Part III: Generation 3: Richard Arnold Bassett and Rachel Crabtree; Edward Higginson and Mary Donaldson
  • Chapter 1: Arnold and Rachel Crabtree and Family
  • Chapter 2: Children of Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Crabtree
  • Chapter 3: Edward and Mary Donaldson Higginson
  • Chapter 4: Mr. and Mrs. Edward Higginson and Family
  • Chapter 5: Edward and Mary’s Children and Grandchildren
  • Chapter 6: Edward in the Civil War
• Part IV: Generation 4: Richard Arnold Crabtree, Mary Giggey, Elijah Harris Crabtree, Priscilla Sutton Sharp, John Donaldson, Mary Johnson
  • Chapter 1: Arnold Richard Crabtree and Mary Giggey
  • Chapter 2: Children of Richard and Mary Crabtree
  • Chapter 3: Elijah Crabtree and Priscilla Sutton Sharp
  • Chapter 4: Children of Elijah and Priscilla Crabtree
  • Chapter 5: Mystery Soldier
  • Chapter 6: Unknown Higginson, John Donaldson and Mary Johnson and Family
• Part V: The Move West
  • Chapter 1: The Move from New Brunswick, Canada, to Nebraska
  • Chapter 2: Census Reports: New Brunswick, 1835, to Brown County, Nebraska, 1830
  • Chapter 3: Dora Dobson Crabtree Palmer’s Letters
  • Chapter 4: Crabtree Relatives and Friends
• Part VI: John Crabb, Elizabeth Bassett, John Giggey, Joseph Sharp, Hannah Ogden
  • Chapter 1: John Crabb and Elizabeth Bassett
  • Chapter 2: Children of John and Elizabeth
  • Chapter 3: John Giggey and his Children; Joseph Sharp and Hannah Ogden and their Children
  • Chapter 4: Loyalists
  • Chapter 5: Crabtree Timeline by Cal Bivens
• Part VII: Crabb Ancestors and Other Ancestors
  • Chapter 1: The Crabb Name and Crabb Ancestors
  • Chapter 2: The Sharp and Ogden Families
  • Information Sources
• Part VIII: Appendix
  • Introduction
  • Amanda Myrtie Crabtree’s Ahnentafel
  • Appendix Part I
  • Information and Photos of Grandma and Grandpa Briggs and Briggs Relatives
  • Letters to Louise from Grandpa Briggs
  • Letters to Louise and Gary from Grandma Myrtie Crabtree Briggs
  • Appendix Part II
  • John Crabtree Letter of dismissal
  • John Crabtree Homestead Certificate and Crabtree Gravestones
  • Appendix Part III
  • Rachel’s Letter of Dismissal and Homestead Certificate
  • Documents on Edward Higginson
  • Shattuck Documents and information
  • George Shattuck information
  • Charley Williams Parents and Half Sister
  • Sermon of D. L. Moody
  • Appendix Part IV
  • Information on Mary Giggey and Sarah Crabtree Gill. Elijah Crabtree’s death certificate.
  • Medical Diseases by Cal Bivens
  • Family war Veterans by Cal Bivens