Hello List, I feel sure that my Shannon line used alcohol, and I know the Staten line that married into the Shannons abused it. My daddy was a chronic alcoholic, his dad made the stuff and bootlegged it. Of course back in those days one was not called an alcoholic, they were called "Ole Drunks" Just my 2 cents worth--Helen -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] <[email protected]> To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Date: Thursday, December 02, 1999 7:56 AM Subject: [SHANNON-L] Re: SHANNONs & alcohol >Hi Leslie, >Were you on this list a year.....maybe 2 years ago when we discussed the >tendancy of many of the SHANNON line towards alcoholism? I think I began by >informing the list that I began my interest in genealogy as a child because >all the other kids called their grandfather Grampa, Gramps, Granddaddy, or >something. Whereas I had to call mine MR. SHANNON. Strange for a child to >understand. > >My grandfather was an abusive alcoholic and when my father & his brother were >old enough to take care of themselves, my grandmother divorced him. Will cut >this short, but we kids of my father were never allowed to call him anything >but Mr. and when I began research as a young woman, my dad never wanted to >hear anything about his father, but was very interested in his grandfather & >further back. > >I think all of us on this list were extremely surprised to find this trait of >alcohol dependency running thru our SHANNON line. Even lines that are not >connected. Someday, maybe one of us will do some research on this, might >prove most interesting & a health benefit to our future generations. >Joyce >p.s. >have you checked our archives to see if your H.E. has been mentioned before? >