Situations like that just curl my finger-nails...her kids not visiting her for months before she died...! Then they show up to get the pots & pans... After my Dad died, and my Mom decided to sell their place & move to So. Utah, she told me I had 1st choice of everything in her house (she basically liquidated everything). I have my own home filled with furniture, etc., and I took nothing...not one thing (except my gr.grandfather's little old Safe Deposit box from the 1800's), that my Dad managed to get in NM during the family fight. I gave the old Safe to son Kyle, cause he loves family history, (but he lets me do all the research work). Someday, when I fly away, I'm leaving him all of my genealogy. He's also my computer guru, so maybe someday he'll put it on-line. Anyway....my kids took what they wanted from Mom's house, then we had an estate sale...sold my Dad's boat, guns, snow-mobiles, fishing poles, tools, remaining furniture, etc. My Mom took that money & put it in her *mad money* pocket. A couple of months ago she told me she'd finally spent it, and she wanted to go to the bank & get some more cash...so I took her. My Mum is a real *piece of work*....she's one of a kind, for sure. She's the Gholson....direct male line to her. Jan C. -----Original Message----- From: ScismGenie@aol.com <ScismGenie@aol.com> To: BLACKSHEEP-CHAT-L@rootsweb.com <BLACKSHEEP-CHAT-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 12:48 PM Subject: [BSChat] hanging like vultures >My neighbor, Lyndon Johnson, has just moved to Florida. His wife, Eula died >last year, and he is moving in with his EX-wife, after being separated more >than twenty years they are deciding to suport each other in their old age. >She came out last month, and seems to be a wonderful person, I wish them >happiness. > >Lyndon decided that 80 years of acumulated thiongs had to go, so he offered >me the pick of his property (in his home), I gratefully accepted some of his >furniture, and a porch swing he had made, which my kids love. He also gave us >a Glade chair from his liviung room, both of these items are desired by his >step children. They were told by Eula, thier mother, that she had promised >them to my kids, and they after her death insist that Eula told them to come >and get them. > >Lyndon told me to take them, and I did. The kids came with a large truck to >empty the house and were very upset that these two items were not there, they >were in my yard thirty feet away. Some of the other things that Eula had >promised my wife, and Lyndon acknowledged were hers for the taking, were >also taken by the kids, Bridget said "whatever, they are her family, we are >just friends", but the attitude was there ws nothing too small to take. > >Lyndon had told them to come down a month before to pick and choose, but >they said it was too much hassle, and since he was leaving very shortly, he >had to dispose of a lot of things. So he invited in his neighbor, let them >'reserve" what they needed, and promised they could pick them up the day >before he left. THEN the kids showed up. > >Their mother had died a year before, and they made no effort to visit or to >look at her things, she had been hospitalized for MONTHS, and they lived 20 >miles away and didn't visit her in the hospital. > >The other son-in-law lives in Arizona, and made several trips to visit and >help out. > >People are really strange, and when the people they are descended from are >gone, they JUMP to "get their share, fair or not". In this case they made his >departure and the proccess as painful for him as possible, forcing him to >break promises, and put "her' family over what his integrity was. > >He ended up leavinga lot of furnishings in the house, because he had no >place to put any of it, the real estate agent ( same gal we sued for >embezzlement) was eagarly awaiting his departure so she could clean out the >property. he specifically declared the left furnishings were for the new >buyer, as he had promised. I am now "watching" the home and hoping she stays >out. (she has his keys for the new buyer). > > > > > >Jeffery G. Scism, IBSSG, (http://blacksheep.rootsweb.com) >~~ >Coordinator, C h u r c h i l l Nevada U S G e n W e b Site >Co-Coordinator, Inmontgo-L, Montgomery County, Indiana, U S G e n W e b Site >manager of the following Rootsweb Lists: >B l a c k s h e e p, L a n d e s, L a n d i s, P e f f l e y, S c i s m, E n >d i c o t t, > S h i p w r e c k, Inmontgo (Mont. Co. Indiana), NVChurch (Churchill Co. >Nv.) > > >==== BLACKSHEEP-CHAT Mailing List ==== >Unsubscribe from the list: >Mailto:Blacksheep-Chat-L-request@rootsweb.com?subject=unsubscribe&body=unsu bscribe > >============================== >To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: >http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 >