Full Circle with the Browns and Perrys

You may recall my elation when I found Jim and Niz Brown, he being the nephew of my great grandmother Gertrude V. Brown, and cousin of my grandmother, Jeanette Stewart. Jim has many family photos and had many connections, but knowledge of what became of Jeanette's half-brother George Perry and his children was limited. He hadn't talked to the boys in a long time. I had tried to find them, the sons of George and Nancy, but to no avail.

Until a few days ago... a surreal message came up in Ancestry. The eldest son of George had found US through our common ancestors, and he was from another mother! I'm still kind of goofy about this. At first I thought I had been mistaken, forgetting that sometimes people have more than one family. (HA!) But after talking with him and seeing some of his puzzle pieces, it all makes more sense now. He was the "oldest son" who picked up Dad's remains and went on one last car trip to release him to the US Navy for scattering at sea off the coast of Pensacola, Florida. Very cool.

So we now know Gertrude's firstborn has the name