Moaning, Groaning, Tantrums, and a few unconnected comments and observations

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One can make out  AMLO in the mist…

AMLO - The disappearing, re-appearing, man-for-all-reasons, popular socialist, republican democrat, conservative, pro-business, pro-labour, stress counsellor, and famous tranquility intervention practitioner, who studied under the great Indian Guru Samhooplajutaquipdish…shows up in Texas.
     
 We managed to catch this reappearance last week of Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador outside of San Antonio, Texas where he was checking up on the manner and method that Donald Trump is taking care of the people of non-native American or Texian birthright.   

     AMLO decided, after the recent (July - 2018) elections, that he would stack his change-over personnel with very, very significant Partido de Accion Nacional (PAN) personalities.  Problem?  The National Action Party is the most solid…perhaps in Latin America…or even all the New World…of all centre-right political parties.   Its members are something like a cross between Lindsey Graham and Ted Cruz.   They are fiercely patriotic…and decidedly private enterprise…pro small, medium, and large business, and save for the case of Vicente Fox Quesada (president of Mexico from 2001 - 2007) who would sometimes try to be "kinder and gentler".   Fox was the first 'non-government' President after the fall of Porfirio Diaz Mori who served 35 years as Presidente de Mexico, 1876 - 1911.

     But enough with this preambulatory stuff.   AMLO also determined, early on after the elections, that he is going to replace the bellicose military response against the cartel residuals and call upon all parties to sing a few bars from "All We Need Is Love" and other inspiritional songs from the cradle of aetheist hymns, like "Where Have All the Flowers Gone…Long Time Ago?"

     We would like to report that after AMLO's inspiring speech at a neighbourhood gathering place in Cd. Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico shortly after his election…his Excellency, the Presidente Elegido de los Estados Unidos de Mexico declared that his administration would emphasise the openning of hearts, and making of sincere gestures of friendship, and alternative employments, and counselling to the poor, downtrodden cartel and gang members.

   The two PAN administrations who served before the PRI's Pena-Nieto (2013 - 2019), started and then increased markedly the military pressure upon the cartels…both the transnationals and the regional ones…and they had remarkable success in the destruction of those entities.   Pena-Nieto allowed the "search, locate, and destroy" imperative to wither on the vine, especially during the last 12 months of his term.   Under the PAN, Mexico's Number One cartel commander, "El Chapo Guzman"was captured.   During the return of the PRI, somehow, "El Chapo" managed to escape his retention in "Mexico's most secure penal facility".    

Before you yell at your daughter to-night,
 remember:  She could have brought

 home this slice of humanity.

 JOAQUIN (EL CHAPO) GUZMAN,

 directly and indirectly associated with over
 5,000 murders and executions.

    Problem?   With the destruction of many lieutenants, captains, and generals…many in Mexican prisons, many inTexas and American prisons…the "cartels", especially during the second decade of this Century, degenerated into something like a barnyard of roosters who had very few hens in their brood.   Persons not even qualified to be something like a sergeant, parade about as the new "Jefe" of the "Cartel del Universo".  One even named itself "Cartel de los Cabelleros Templares"…???

      The Roman Catholic archbishop of that area (Morelos State and the area including and to the west of the beautiful capital city of Morelia) declared that no-one in that organisation (Caballeros Templares) could reasonably pretend to be Masonic Knights  and of the  Christian religion.    Also, the rank and file soldiers, navy and naval infantry poo-bahs…generals and strategic analysts thought, "We're not policemen."
     During the PAN period (12 years,  2001 - 2013)…the military served to fill a breach in the "thin blue line" of the State and local police…most of whom were either corrupt, or tired of the offer of "plomo o plata" (lead or silver)…the classic underworld's offer to good cops who have daughters and grandchildren.

One of many downtown refuges in the City of Morelia

  (Allow us to insert here an observation.)  The Mexican military has purposefully obfuscated statistics and correct data on various and sundry occasions.   For instance, and concerning intermediate and light attack fighters, and/or medium duty fighter / bombers, this matter has been quietly removed from everybody's review, from Jane's and/or any other authoratative military analysis about Mexican tactical airpower).  

These are bees, if you pleez.  They are not  commies.

     Saloon blowhards declare that Mexico would not know what to do with a 1944 WWII Eggbeater…while others of us (in a much finer saloon) have seen very sleek, 2nd level jets doing maneourves and/or patrol during the day, but more especially, at night…especially along the coasts.   If almost all of our old B-52's are still flying…then, the Mexican pick of the  used but refurbished fighters could certainly solve all of their tactical fighter needs.

Another view of Morelia, Michoacan

       The latter are usually rehabilitated American (perhaps some French) equipment, used to track and direct detention efforts against South and Central American (Venezuela, Cuba, Nicaragua) type cocaine and liquid meth transporters.  Supposedly, they are heavily equipped with considerable strafing and wing-rocketry capacity.

     It is thought by some of the left-wing commentators that AMLO and his cadre are unaware that Mexicans, left or right, rich or poor or that majority now in the middle are generally in favour of active engagement against and destruction I do not believe they are "unaware".  I believe they are counting on the "Doctrina Chamberlina", which states, "Hitler told me he had no bellicose machinery or intention, so "laisser le bonne temps rouler"

It does not work, such efforts have always failed, and that fact causes the "Social Justice

"Subcomandante Marcos"

Rafael Sebastian Guillen Vicente
Heroic Saviour of the Downtrodden
Indigenous…millions and millions spent,
and the Lacandon Maya are just as poor
to-day as they were yesterday…perhaps
a bit poorer. (circa 1998)

Warriors" and the "Union of the People Who Care" to re-triple their efforts into the task of making ants and bees out of the humans within their grasp.

In the last 150 years of "Progressivism'' and the worldwide socialist engineering effort, we have watched the variation:

The Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (NSDAP)          aka - the National Socialist German Labour Party,

The Bolsheviks (Russia),

The Fabian Socialists (England),

The Maoist Chinese Communist Party (Red China),

American and European variations of "Democratic Socialist Parties" and hundreds of splinters and shreds of such organisations
The fact that almost every European nation is a grey, dull, socialist, materialist, work-in-regress is especially depressing…"…the doctor will be able to see you in seven months.  Don't be late, because you'll have to re-schedule".
The many localised militarised efforts, ie -  Sendero Luminoso,  Frente Sandanista de (sic) Liberacion Nacional (Nicaragua), and the likes of Sub-comandante Marcos…another urban, extreme upper-middle class, university educated, marxist who went into the Lacandon Forests of the Mexican State of Chiapas to save the Lacandon Maya Indians from globalisation and global warming.
    And, of course, we have the never-ending, treaty-signing liars…the Frente Armada de la Revolucion Colombiana (FARC), sustained and maintained by Venezuela (broke and corrupt) and Cuba (broke and corrupt) and the Red Chinese (don't even get me started.  To-day, a Hong Kong type Chinese person made a radio announcement calling for the establishment of Hong Kong as an Independent Country).
    And Why?  TO ESCAPE SOCIALISM!!!!   TO DIMINISH CORRUPTION TO THE EXTENT POSSIBLE!
GOD BLESS THE GRASS THAT GROWS THROUGH CONCRETE…PETE SEEGER…AND YOU, PETE ARE THE CONCRETE…NOT THE TRUTH!!

Last commonwealth / colonial flag of Hong Kong…
Thanks,. Prince Phillip, for officiating at the surrender.
It  seems a job for which you were designed…

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We had much more to contribute…but it even bores me at this point.   Please stand by while we try to wake up the left side of the brain…more later…..

El Gringo Viejo

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Difference? Democrats always lie…always…and Republicans always retreat, especially when they are winning and correct on the issues.

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     The truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, so help you God?

     Obsolete Press psuedoreporter asks,"Sir, are you aware that during the recently imposed Trump administration, photos have been newly released that prove beyond a doubt that post-infant children were cast into  chain link fence and plywood framed boxes, and chained to their quarters by American officials?"

     "Uh..uh, I don't know about…" the respondent stutters.

     "Well, does this picture help your memory a bit?"  the questioner shows a picture of the children, bound in chains, and literally caged.  The "newsman" essentially restates the question while thrusting the picture posted below before the Sad Sack's nose.

     " Duh…that's not a good thing to put children in a chicken coop."

    "And you are aware that Donald Trump is in charge of this part of the government?   Do you think this is an example of 'making America great again'?"

     "Duh…what means 'America'?"

     

  "Well, under Republicans, I guess we can make a case for the fact that 'America' means incarceration of very young children, without food or water, in essentially what are temporary dog kennel quarters.  Normally, after a while, they take the dogs and put them in a gas chamber and then laugh and guffaw, while they take videos of the dogs asphixiating from the gas.  It's the way Republicans get their 'jollies'.   Cats get the same treatment…so one can assume, when they run out of dogs and cats…they will probably substitute the innocent migrant children just looking for a better life, and kill them for fun just because they are brown and innocent."

(We have just painted the normal order of CBSABCNBCCNNPBSNYTWP interviews and information transferral to the people they regard as dolts and dumboes.)

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   The problem with all of this is that this famous picture was taken in 2014.  The last time I checked, a fellow with the name  "Barry Soetoro" on his passport, when he signed in at some citadel of useless marxist instruction to become "educated", was President of the United States of America from 2009 through 2017.   And yes, Virginia, the picture above displayed was taken in early 2014.

Checkmate.

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We very profoundly appreciate the attention of the reader.   Please check in for a series of eclectic and sadly funny observations  that will be coming your way.

El Gringo Viejo

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Marty Robbins - A White Sport Coat And A Pink Carnation and My Eldest Brother with his Prom Date, Mary Lu Thompson

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     This is an inter-familial submission just because I happened to run across

 it.  The picture is of my eldest brother, father to my Niece Helen.   The beauty

is Mary Lu Thompson who lived in the centre of McAllen, Texas, while we

lived "out in the country".  To wit:

From: Mary Lu Fouts 

Date: September 23, 2010 8:28:52 PM GMT-04:00

To: David Newton <privatouring@gmail.com>

Subject: Prom night circa 1954

  I found this old picture in some of the things I have kept and I thought

perhaps you did not have this one of  Milton. My son, Bill, made a copy

of the movie for me and I will send it along also.  I wish the movie was longer and

not so dark but the film was so degraded this was the best he could do. I  

spoke to a gentleman in Maryland who restores old 35mm film but he said

that he could not do anything much since he was working from a copy of

a copy.  I sent sister Margaret on a fact finding mission which necessitated 

her contacting our cousin, the keeper of the family films and also the designated

mourner for the family.  She has mourned and grieved over every lost family

member since the Boer War so conversation with her can be a bit depressing.

Margaret, being the patient sister, got the job of finding out about the original

movie.  Sadly, it was so old it had simply disintegrated into dust.  So.. there you

have it!  I will send what I have along right away.  I know that it isn't much but

 I do love looking at it and remembering a wonderful and happy time in my life.

     You said in your last letter that you had a question or two for me…..? If you ask

them I will do my best to answer them.

Take care,

Mary Lu

PS....I am glad to hear that your Father in law is feeling much better... yes,

I do read your blog! 

   

     I even remember Milton bringing Mary Lu out to the house after the Prom…really

 late…like around 11:30.  My mother looked really great in a bathrobe and her hair

 up in…like 1904 iron curler clips.  I remembered asking Mary Lu if she were a

Princess.

     Mary Lu informed my parents that her parents had bought

a 27 inch television.   We would buy one three years later; a Packard Bell. now?

Ah!! Gone with the Wind….

El Gringo Viejo

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CHICAGO MY KIND OF TOWN - Frank Sinatra - Whatever Happened to Chicago, Mr. Emanuel?

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       We have wailed and moaned about this matter, perhaps frequently or even too frequently.   We awaken after another weekend, already aware that the Houston Astros failed to sweep the Dodgers late last night.  And we had picked up on old news that is newly reposting the same old stuff because it is new stuff, and because, "If it bleeds, it leads!".

     Ah! Chicago…melting pot…but one where the ingredients of the stew almost never, finally, and resolutely become an agreeable gruel.   The Poles are here, the Germans there, the Jews are found in this or that place.  The Negroes are on the inside and the Saxons are on the edge, and the Italians have knives, guns, and submachine guns.  Over-generalisations all…but…

     Someone like Alphonse Capone can become some sort of royalty, principally by leaving somewhere between 900 and 2,500 dead bodies in Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, and especially

Chicago!  Most of this was due to the necessity to protect Alphonse Capone's control of the delivery of Johnny Barleycorn's Plenty, mainly from Canada:  spirits…hooch…the lubricant of society.   After all, Carrie Nations and Margaret Sanger and my gran-gran-mere Mary Catherine Howe and all nature of social-controlistas declared that demon-likker was and is bad for men.   Of course, Women can hide their bottles in some recess of a bank of cabinets or on some upper shelf of the darkened kitchen pantry.   Men, however, have hairy legs, smell bad, and use their hooch in covered, but public, places like saloons.   Shame on them.

     Chicago can be romanticised, perhaps, but almost any place with more than 500,000 people can be romanticised, even if Mrs. O'Leary couldn't keep her cows in check.   One thing has not changed, however, as Chicago grew and became the dominant metropolitan area over a large swath of America.  With the Republicans of the 1920s - 1930s and with the Democrats of the 1960s through to the present,  Chicago remains corrupt, essentially to the core.   And Capone's death toll is dwarfed by the 7,000 or more men, women, and children that the "neighbourhood gangs" have piled up during the same length of time just in south and west Chicago.   Blessed Virgin Intervene!

     The southern half of the city is now substantially in the hands of gangs, almost all are young black men who are third and fourth generation public assistance people…most with no fathers.  The schools are graduating 12th graders who are scoring 2nd and 3rd grade levels…it is truly a place of horrors, violence, cultural decay, and…to be sure…the steady not-so-slow slide into anarchy.   These are not just words to be assembled to make a point…they are words that have been assembled to properly define the fact that Chicago is, in fifth part, completely eaten out from the inside.   The only surprise to this observer is that it is not worse than the present condition.

    To-morrow or the day after it will be.

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The violence reached a peak early Sunday, when 30 people were shot in a three-hour span between midnight and 3 a.m., an average of one every five minutes or so. Eight of the shootings during that period had three or more victims. Over the weekend, 14 children were shot and two, both 17, died. The youngest victim was 11 and the oldest was 62. The shootings were concentrated on the west and south of the city, leaving the downtown area, where thousands attended the Lollapalooza music concert, largely unaffected.

This is not a family get-together…
but unfortunately, in a way, it has become such.  

    This problem will not be solved within the next 60 - 100 years.  The problem is not that people are shooting other people without any concern about the niceties of minimising civilian casualties or frightening millions of people to the point of apoplexy every night, every day, and especially during week-ends.

     The problem is that there is a large body of participants in what is essentially a guerrilla war, conducted by people who have no sense of morality…no direction with clear yes and no, good and bad, up or down choices that should be easily and readily made by the numerous perpetrators of this madness.
  

     All the after-school, pre-school, summer-school, and mid-night basketball (to burn excess energy), food stamps, free rent, free medical, and essentially free money for various things cannot and will not cure this or any other problem on a durable basis.  Nay, and a million time nay…it is the cause.   On an island isolated, and a dysfunctional socio-cultural code, with a great density of population, nothing good can come of it.
      Dependency upon a government dole from Father Abraham is the handiwork of arrogant, vicously racist, leftist politicians who wish to reserve a body of obligated voters, who must of course, vote for their "way of life".  Such a "way of life" breeds dependency because it breeds dependent breeding.   That isolated and dependent culture has devolved to the point, that starting twenty years ago or so, single men would refer to Janie Talakalwannashabannakana Jackson as ,"…my babymother".

     A dolt such as I, or even a black man who had been blessed by a fairly normal upbringing in a standard-issue family could not comprehend what Shaktajakawa was talking about.   We had to learn that it meant, "Janie Talakalwannashabannakana Jackson and I made a baby.  That baby added on 290 dollars per month to her AFDC, 90 dollars to the 280 she makes from Food Stamps.  I helps her make extra money that way, and then she gives me a little 'walking around' money.  I pick up a grand or two from my baby mothers every month or so."

   And the above scenario is not only common, but it is better than the worst scenario.   That setting is one of a woman, stoned by meth and/or oxycotin and/or heroin, near death, a true walking zombie with stairstep babies aged 2, 3, 5, and 6.  One was taken by her brother when he left and went to North Carolina with his wife and two children.  He, as the boy's blood uncle, could not stand to see what was happening to all of his nephews and nieces, and so he at least took one, outright and without authority.  His sister never even inquired about the boy.

     This is not the nature of the establishment of a self-sufficient family that forms the bedrock of a culture of independence, liberty, self-sufficiency, and pride in self and family.   It is not enough to be proud of being Black.  It is not enough to be proud of being Caucasian.   It is not enough to be proud of being born any particular colour or race.

    The only thing that brings true and reasonable pride is the formation of true and solid families, composed of a mother and father, with children who are guided, pointed, cared for, disciplined, and given a certain and demanding moral catechism, be it Protestant or Roman Catholic or  traditional orthodox (Anglican, Greek, etc.), or from the Temple.   Those are the ties that bind.  Those are the ties that point the way to social, cultural, and financial progress to the participant.

     The only chance there is to salvage this problem is to understand, first of all, that it will be the labour of two, three, or four generations.  It will also be fought by all the forces that have caused the problem, such as the Southern Poverty Law Centre, leftist vote-buyers (with other peoples' money), the American Civil Liberties Union, and every Jeremiah Wright - Jesse Jackson - Al Sharpton - Farakhan  Charlatan Association member, and Black Lives Matter - styled group…all these agencies and individuals who require a dependent and disengaged class of zombies to lead around.

     The jackals, buzzards, and charlatans who have invented this mass of hapless humanity are

reaping the whirlwind, and hiding behind the curtain provided by a compliant, marxist press that still hopes that entities and organisations such as Maduro, Raul, Ortega, Lula, Barry Soetoro,  the National Socialist Democratic German Workers' Party, the Bolsheviks, George Soros, the Annenberg Foundation (and similars) can save the World from itself.  They, along with the zombie factories that pass for "universities and colleges", and churches that concern themselves with the secular when they should be pointing the way to the sacred are all part of the Witches' Stew of cultural poison.
    And, sorry, FactCheck…but Soros did say it, proudly and openly in Germany, four years ago…and he has funded BLM, ACORN, Occupy Wall Street,  and was instrumental in the bussing and other transport and support for the Ferguson Rioters and Looters.   Truth sometimes hurts the evil.

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   In short, it is necessary to remove and imprison the parties who are involved in gang and/or organised crime of any kind.  Then it will be necessary to steadily, and somewhat quickly, implement a primary and secondary scholastic schedule of eight or nine grades.

     It will be necessary to involve the new wave of children in charity work, and to cleave unto a spiritual support module of some sort…even Unitarian, if need be…but preferably a spiritual house with the power of an old fashioned Negro Baptist Church Choir…or the august influence of an ancient Anglican or Roman standard mass…and subsequent community work and "looking after the elderly and infirmed" activity.   Organised sports…especially baseball, basketball, and football, tennis, and swimming along with musical studies and accomplishments can exhaust and edify a child and give that girl or boy who participates the sense of accomplishment and fulfillment he or she deserve to have in this life.

     It would be a long haul, difficult to "allow to happen", because this type of cure has to be as unstructured as possible, and as goal - objective - centred such as we have not seen since the 1950s.  I know that it is very much a pipe-dream, but what has been done for the last forty years has become the cancer that will kill America and Texas.  Continuing on this path will leave us with Boko Haram, "Palestine", Honduras, and Venezuela as better alternatives.  We can watch Europe crumble before our eyes at this time because of their increasing sloth and commitment to some form of false political correctness..

Thanks for the time and attention you have given to this very, very serious cultural crisis.

El Gringo Viejo

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A Look Into the Collusion Between the Limbaugh and Newton / Neal Families and the Involvement of the Russians and Trump, therein

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     We have decided to come clean before the DOJ and the MGM and the NFL come chasing us down like the aristocratic commoners we seem to be…or not.   Over the months and years, after my stating that Rush Limbaugh and I are first cousins - three times removed.   The pathway to the fact is not all that tortuous, nor difficult to understand.
     Records are fairly clear, especially if one rakes the millet and sheds the chaff enough times.  It is actually rather amazing how much detail can be extracted from county records, census reports, and church documents of rites of passage.   Please be aware that this is essentially a posting that is drawn from a mailing to some of my closest friends and relatives.  It is especially sent as a charge to my daughter, my son, and my niece…and to a small circle of friends.

     That accomplished, we render the information…still imperfect, but becoming "perfecter" as the Southern commentator might comment…because it is interesting in the sense that it is a quick reference of the nature of the Westward Expansion and of the nature of the times before, during, and after the War Between the States.

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The Letter
(originally sent during the past two days
to a group totalling 14 persons)

  Please be aware that this mailing is not to impress anyone, because a person should not build his fame or notoriety upon the shoulders of cousins or upon any form of nepotism.   It is simply a response to various questions about the specifics about how Milton, Norman, and I are related to Rush and David Limbaugh as first cousins, three times removed.

     What is more interesting than that fairly direct accounting of our ancestry from that   German immigrant family, and the very noteworthy George Frederick Limbaugh who was an impressive and interesting fellow by any measure, are the peculiar co-incidences that intertwined  the Limbaughs and the Neals.   Even more interesting is that Winchester, Franklin County, Tennessee would prove to be a considerable theatre for one significant branch of the Limbaughs and many significant branches of the Neals.
      And yes…as many of you know…I am as interested in your provenance as I am in my own.   All tales…especially those that are reasonable, substantially accurate, and sincere…are what this writer refers to as "of profound interest".

     This is essentially an updating of other information, mainly designed to inform my two children, my niece, and my nephews of significant portions of their more distant ancestry.  During these more recent "hunting expeditions" we accidentally encountered two more Confederate soldiers, one of whom had been killed in action.    That changes the loss count to 2 Union (brothers who were my great-uncles), and 6 Confederates.  

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     George Frederick Limbaugh, the first Limbaugh family member in America, was born in Germany (ancestral roots include Prussia, Saxony, and Bremen ancestors…all contiguous principalities / kingdoms) circa 1727 to Johannes Michael Limbach  (b. 1688?) and Marie Listerer (b. 1698?).

       Johann Frederick Limbaugh, George Frederich' first-born arrived at Berks County, Pennsylvania as a child in 1753, along with his mother and father and a couple of younger children.   Records seem to indicate that he was eight or nine years old.

Baron Friedrich Wilhelm August
 Heinrich Ferdinand
von Steuben 

     Twenty years later, Johann Frederick served as Major and 3rd in command of a large militia unit, comprising a 3,000 member battalion.   That unit was called forward by some General Officer named Washington to report to a place called Valley Forge, Pennsylvania  (early December, 1777 - mid-June, 1778).  Some of the members of that battalion could speak some English but most either spoke no English or were not totally proficient in the funny sounding language.  Interestingly, they were mainly Germanic and looked forward to slaughtering their Hessian cousins who were swilling ale across the River in the colony of New York, and singing Christmas carols and saloon songs while  supporting the English King, George the IIIrd.
     The fact that there were so many "Pennsylvania Dutch" (term in especially eastern Pennsylvania  at that time for German) soldiers and settlers is one of the reasons Washington called upon the famous German tactician, General von Steuben for assistance.  The good Baron served  at the level of General Officer for the remainder of the War, and was essentially Washington's Chief of Staff.  It is more than a little probable that Major Frederich Johann Limbaugh would have had direct contact with the good Baron and Washington.   Limbaugh's militia had served in various Indian disorders, and also during dust-ups with the French.

     Frederich Johann Limbaugh…son of George Frederick…left Pennsylvania as a sole heir of the Limbaugh estate.   He sold the entire property in Pennsylvania for 1,100 pounds sterling (1783 anno domini)…something like about 2,000,000 American dollars in this time (2018 anno domini).  He went first to North Carolina where the clan lived and farmed for a while.   This is were one child apparently "ran off" with a Spanish beauty who was also some form of aristocrat (we are being inventive here…she was apparently a very decent girl and apparently  Christian (sometimes called David) Limbaugh did well among her family and friends in Florida and Cuba).

     Later, Frederich Johann Limbaugh moved on into Tennessee, and settled among my people in what would become Franklin County…and more precisely…the city of Winchester where it was still mainly a log cabin town at that time.   His son, Peter, adapted well among the Anglo/Saxon and Cherokee populace in that area of southeastern Tennessee…many Limbaughs were then buried over the years due to Peter's decision to make Franklin County, Tennessee his permanent life home.   The name Limbaugh is still alive  in that town, and is found in the private Limbaugh estate's cemetery, and other cemeteries down into Alabama and Georgia.

     We would like to point out that the movement of Frederich Johann Limbaugh and his little "tribe" from Pennsylvania to North Carolina to Tennessee and then to Cape Girardeaux did not take place over a two or three year period.   The moving between the points of Alpha and Omega went steadily, deliberately… farming, selling farms, raising and improving livestock, etc.   But for certain, he seemed to be intent on that mid-Mississippi River area.   It seemed to make little difference, however, to the outcome for each element of the extended family.   The boy who went to Florida and Cuba did well, and the Peter Limbaugh contingent did well in  the Winchester, Franklin County area, as did the "Old Man" Frederich Johann.

     The bulk of the family kept moving on that somewhat moribund French settlement area in what would be known as Southeastern Missouri before many years would pass.  As it was, they  settled in what would become Louisiana Territory in three years.  By 1758, George Frederick Limbaugh had married Anna Catharine Ritter and had six sons: Johannes Frederick Limbaugh, George Frederick Limbaugh II, Peter Limbaugh, Henry Limbaugh, Christian Limbaugh, and Michael Limbaugh.   The family settled on the west side of the Mississippi River in an area known as Cape Girardeaux, now in the State of Missouri.   Two sons dropped off along the way, including Christian who left the "tribe" in North Carolina, and married a Spanish girl whose father was some kind of titled aristocrat involved with the Spanish government. Christian did well in Cuba and was involved in the making of rum and curing of fine tobaccos.

A Typical Scene in the Winchester and
 Estill Springs Area in These Times

    The other "drop out" was Peter Limbaugh listed above as the one who stayed back in the Winchester, Franklin County, Tennessee area.   As he arrived with his family, Peter and his brood decided that  Franklin County, especially Winchester and Estill Springs and the bottom lands of the Sewanee River was his Promised Land.  He cashed out with his inheritance from his grandfather.  Supposedly, Frederick Johann Limbaugh kept 50% of the inheritance, and then assigned the remainder in equal shares to the six boys.   Seemed fair to all.   My brothers Milton and Norman, and your humble servant are descended from this line. 

     There was another family…Grant by surname…who had a member by the name of Asa.  That man came from the more western parts of Tennessee at the time and he was taken by a Limbaugh daughter, named Amelia…(called Millie or Meli by her buddies).  Asa Grant, unlike his second cousin, Hiram Ulysses Grant, was an anti-slavery Southerner.   Asa married the German girl, in spite of her funny accent…and among other things…put to flight the Stork who would deliver a child by the name of William (Dutch) Grant.

     Supposedly William Grant, son of Asa Grant and Amelia Limbaugh, learned German from his mother, and the people marvelled at his bi-lingual capacity.  It is from that ability that he was given the life-long nickname of "Dutch".

     Both "Dutch" (42 Infantry Regiment, Confederation States Army, 1st Lieutenant) and Asa Grant (4th Tennessee Cavalry, Confederate States Army, Capitan), served, were wounded, and returned to Winchester…Dutch in better shape than his father…who died, finally succumbing to wounds that would not abate caused by the arrogance of the victors and the hideous administration of the Camp Chase POW impoundment in Ohio.  

(AS AN ASIDE)

     As a child, the name "Billy Grant!!!" called out in housewife shrill, meant, my "Uncle Billy"…or William Grant Neal.  That was because William Grant Neal was named for his grandfather William Grant and actually born well out of order due to the fact that he was born in 1941…while his eldest sibling…a sister…my mother…was born in 1915.   My mother and Uncle Billy were born so far apart chronologically that "Uncle Billy" would always address my mother as "Mrs. Newton."   All of this meant that your Uncle Milton had an uncle (Billy Grant Neal) who was younger than your Uncle Milton.   We return now to the original text.

     All such verbiage is neither here nor there.   Asa Grant was a revered Confederate war hero.  He died in 1869 as stated above due to complications from his incarceration at Camp Chase, Ohio, where he had been dumped after being taken from the battlefield as a wounded Confederate officer.  His son, William was also a decorated Confederate veteran.

     These things carried down, drifting towards the present, because "Dutch" married a girl whose family had a problem staying inside the driving lanes.  Lucky for her, there were no marked lanes at that time.   But her brothers might have been (we state cautiously) associated with the Donaldson Gang which was associated with the James Boys.

     William (Dutch) Grant was not one of those, but his wife was drawn from among them.  The fact that William had moved to the eastern side of Tennessee from his father's Lewisburg environs on the western side of Tennessee gave the couple some, perhaps considerable, immunity from the lesser elements of the Donaldson family's weaker members.

     In continuing the continuum, William (Dutch) Grant and Sarah Frances (Sallie) Donaldson (3 March 1841 - 12 January 1902) bore out four babies, among them your great-great grandmother Mary Frances Grant (8 November 1865 - 25 April 1916).

     The last named lady married a fellow, your great-great grandfather by the name of William Benjamin Franklin Neal (1852 - 1936), one of the youngest Confederate veterans who rode as a Partisan Ranger towards the end of the War…during a period of potential anarchy in the southeastern Tennessee area.  Union troops did little to interrupt Union deserters and stragglers from thieving and harassing locals.  His father was an ordained Methodist pastor and had two churches in the Winchester community, and had been a chaplain to the Confederate Army…(and attended to Union troops as well)…for the last three years of the War.

     William Benjamin Franklin Neal and Mary Frances Grant bore out 12 children, all but the last surviving to adulthood.  The antepenultimate  child was your Great Grandfather Reginald (Rex) Andrew Neal (1893  -  1973)  who married Mamie Hastings Chism (1898 - 1971).  These are your father's maternal grandparents, and your Great-Grandparents.

    From them came four children, among them the aforementioned William (Billy) Grant Neal, born in 1941 (last born) and your Grandmother (first born) Nola Frances Neal (Newton) (1915 - 1994).  Between Billy and Nola the Stork delivered Uncle Donald,  (vitae sine mentione) and Reginald (Rex) Andrew Neal (1920 - 1971).

    From thence you all can do your aggregations of the Newtons / Neal  and Garzas / Garzas…with your own studies…or your mother and I will help you to the degree that we can.

    

      We can suggest that the life and genealogical line of your Granma Mamie Chism (Chisum) (Chisolm)(Chisholm) leads into a morass of western North Carolina, during the earliest part of the 1700s.  It was her understanding that her people had come from England in the mid-1600s, landing in Virginia, and gradually farming their way into the Carolinas (similar to Frederick Johann and his little tribe), finally winding up in southeastern Tennessee.   Many Chism's with various spellings were found in Texas very shortly after the War Between the States.   Mamie "heard tell" of them but never met any of them…ostensibly her brothers? cousins? uncles?  Some day we shall figure out the Chism, Chisum, Chisolm, Chisholm thing.

		Descendants of Peter Limbaugh

Peter Limbaugh was the third child of Anna Catherina Ritter and George Frederick Limbaugh. There were six children born to Anna and George Frederick Limbaugh:  Johannes (John),  George Frederick, Peter, Henry, Christian and Michael.  Peter and Anna did not come to Bollinger County, Missouri with George Frederick and the rest of the family.     They chose to settle in Tennessee.  Christian Limbaugh stayed in the North Carolina area and later moved to Florida before Florida became a State. Peter Limbaugh was born 1770 in Pennsylvania and died about 1846 in Franklin County Tennessee. He married Anna Maria Lingle July 28,1791 and the two had eleven children. Anna was born 1772 in North Carolina and died after 1830 in Franklin County Tennessee.  Children of Anna Lingle and Peter Limbaugh  John A. Limbaugh , Leah Limbaugh, Catherine Limbaugh, Mary Ann (Polly) Limbaugh, Solomon Limbaugh, Peter Limbaugh, Elizabeth  Limbaugh, Amelia Limbaugh, Lucy Ann Limbaugh, Sarah E. Limbaugh, and Wilburn Rufus Limbaugh.

What seems to be the strangest thing is that the number one surname in Franklin County, Tennessee apparently remains Neal…and truth be known…they were very prolific.  One of the next largest was or is Limbaugh.      The Neal Cemetery, and the Limbaugh Cemetery are only about four miles apart.  And, my mother was not remotely aware of any of that…although she lived should to shoulder with them during the first 9 or 10 years of her life, before moving to Texas. A Quien le conviene hacer preguntas…la lampara esta' prendida…  To those who might wish to comment or question, the light is lit at any time. El Gringo Viejo ______________