Geneology: I have been scanning old family pictures, and it has gotten me into a bit about my family history. Both my grandmothers' families seem well documented, but the grandfathers not so good. James A. Bryden goes back to Bolton, England, but really Scotland, I even have his birth certificate, but who were his brothers and sisters and grandparents? Not so sure. George Washington Haldaman was from Missouri, Oklahoma, and the like, but not much past there. My family album is here.

Here is Margret F. Haldaman, born in 1866. Her mother died young and she worked her way through school, attending college at Illinois Normal. She taught at the Indian Schools, she considered herself a missionary and never married: