Pages from the Glittering Darkness

Recently my aunt found these words in a notebook of hers.. she wrote them down when talking with my grandfather Peregoy. He passed away several years ago, in his life he served as my ideal of a gentleman.. These are his memories.. his words, transcribed from my aunts notebook..   

 February 28, 1993
I had an Uncle Sam.  He was my Dad's twin brother.  He worked in Philadelphia and I remember seeing him at Uncle Elizah's one spring when my three brothers and I rode the spring wagon.  Later he mover to Baltimore to work at ---------------- where I saw him several times.  He married and had a daughter Uncle Elizah had twelve children-all of them are dead now.   Uncle Joe was the oldest.  He was born in 1849 or 1850.  He was a stone mason. Next was Uncle John who was a butcher until he retired.  Aunt Elizabeth married French Hale and lived in Baltimore.  Next Aunt Margaret married Charles R----- and died about 1927.  Next Uncle Elizah who stayed on the farm where they grew up.  Then Dan and Sam.  Then Harry who lived at Lay Field who married May-Harry died in 1934 - was a stonemason.  Someone was a country school teacher.  Uncle John lived in Virginia. [My Grandfather's] grandfather lived on a farm and was a shoemaker by trade. Born 1823 and died 1893.

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