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The web site, Minerd.com has an interesting factoid this month announcing a new historical marker for the Buckeye State honoring a family connection in the town of Tontogany, in Wood County, Ohio that will be dedicated in a few weeks.
The family connection is the Custer Brothers, yes those Custers' who were without a shred of mercy cut to ribbons when General George bit off more than he could chew at the Little Big Horn.
Okay they asked for it, but brother Thomas Custer was kin, making the general also a distant "cuz" by some strange "removed" consequence and therefore many Minerd tears have been shed through the years because of a battle plan gone awry.
Had it not been for a few military miscues who know's how far those branches would have reached.
Some of those early Minerd girl's found their way into historic circumstances, if not shamefully decantant ones.
That is, "for the times."
*Visit Minerd.com and look for the book detailing Rebecca's connection to the Custer boy's.
It's called, "Tontongany's Deep Secret."
Mark Miner of Pittsburgh, Pa. is the engine that powers Minerd.com and through his many years of documenting the family legacy the web site is a complete history book in and of itself.
I met Mark a few years ago when he traveled to Columbus in search of information about my side of the clan living just a few clicks East of the banks of the Allegheny, Monongahela and Ohio Rivers.
Together we traveled to the hill's of Athens County, near the Wood County line to dig up some old photo's of "my" Minerd's and to speak to the few old one's still living there who at one time or another helped care for me and my older sibs.
Minerd's who can also trace their roots back to the Keystone State.
Aside from family I have other "ties" to the Pittsburgh area, more on that later...
It might be worth the trip to Custer's home in Tontogany, Ohio on August 10th.
Take in the annual festival and witness the dedication of the bronze.
And of course an opportunity to see again, and hear a speech that will be delivered by the keeper of the family pages, and accomplished author, my "cousin" Mark.
By the way, that connection I mentioned that I feel for the Steel City is born from my undying loyalty to the worst team in major league baseball for the past decade and a half.
A die hard Pirate fan who still "believes."
Fellow Bucko fans' know where that statement originated, and so do Baltimore Oriole fans' who's memory of it isn't as celebrated.
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