Cary, or even a few days or a week later? Sarge At 9/5/2011 01:01 PM Monday, Cary Anderson wrote: *********START OF ORIGINAL MESSAGE TEXT********* >You may have missed the point! How many mother's would get up, get dressed >and walk 4 miles on the day the child was born? > >Cary >----- Original Message ----- >From: "kshepard" <menotyou17@yahoo.com> >To: <germanna_colonies@rootsweb.com> >Sent: Monday, September 05, 2011 9:17 AM >Subject: Re: [GERMANNA] Baptism on day of birth > > >I was baptized on my day of birth due to being so sickly and my chance of >survival was slim. Two of my older brothers had the same condition and both >died within 1 and 3 days of birth. I would say that the fact that the mother >did not attend may be an indicator that the mother and child has a rough >time of it, and that their religous beliefs were that a person needed to be >baptised to have entry to Heaven... > >Kathy >TN Germanna Reunion - Sept. 9-11 >http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~george/easttennesseereunion2011.html >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >GERMANNA_COLONIES-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without >the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > >TN Germanna Reunion - Sept. 9-11 http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~george/easttennesseereunion2011.html >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GERMANNA_COLONIES-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message **********END OF ORIGINAL MESSAGE TEXT*********** My Germanna Database at Rootsweb: http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=germanna My Germanna Website at Rootsweb: http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~george/index.html