This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: STEREN AND LEIDY Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/BMB.2ACE/1171.1 Message Board Post: Hi again! This connection with you truly is a joy!!! Your great grandmother, Emma Steren Leidy, was my paternal aunt. I knew her when I was a little girl. She was married to Thomas Leidy who would have been your great grandfather. They had a son, Thomas Leidy, Jr. who we knew as "Bud".. Emma and Thomas Leidy also had a daughter, Alberta Leidy Johnson born in Clyde, MO. Alberta had five children I believe, but I don't know their names. Perhaps one was Betty Ann Leidy? There were two other daughters that may have been adopted, but this is unclear. There also was a Helen Leidy who died at the young age of 3 years due to diptheria. I visited your great grandmother and the family in 1947 or so. I was about 8 years old and I remember their house being located adjacent to the town cemetery. What fun it was to roam the cemetery during one of those tremendous thunder storms. It was on the 4th of July when we visited and we had a big family picnic. Your great grandmother, who was my Dad's sister, was a very sweet woman. She had a pretty hard life but she was always so caring for everyone. I remember how sad my Dad was when we learned she had passed away (sometime in the early 1970's I think). My Dad (Emma Leidy's brother) was John Raymond Steren and he married Violet Leonore (Hammons) Steren in 1921. My folks came to California in 1933. We have much to share regarding the family. Please contact me directly at: joyclevenger@cox.net I live in California...born and raised here. I hope you have or had a wonderful trip. Did you go for pleasure or did you combine some family history research with it? Can't wait for your response. I would love to have some photos. I am not sure if I have any of the Leidy's or not. I'll check. Take care,