as Hardy 1 John Hardy Raymond R ( { UWRT 1103 (ye Lelerem 27 October 2015 Family Tree Project: The Hardy Family My immediate family is small, very small. First you have my dad, John Hardy, who is an only child, His parents John and Bonnie Hardy are still alive and we are very close. Then you have my mom, Anne Hardy, who has a brother, Ronald Boroughs, who is married but has no children and doesn't plan on having any either. Both of my mothers parents are deceased, Hal Boroughs, her dad, died when my mother was only 19, so | was never able to meet him, and her mother Coleen Boroughs, died just over a year ago. So as far as families go we would be considered quite small, but that doesn't mean we don't have a story. First | will give you a background of my family. My dad was born in Siloam, North Carolina, which is in Surry County and John and Bonnie Hardy raised him there. John is a cow farmer gjgid and Bonnie is a retired nurse, My dad attended NC State for a degree in agriculture and is now a fertilize salesmen as well as the owner of a four acre vineyard, My mom was bom in Asheboro, North Carolina, which is in Randolph County. She attended UNC Greensboro to become a K-12 English teacher, and now works as a self contained English teacher at Gentry elementary school in my hometown, Mount Airy, North Carolina. Her dad, Hal was born in Asheboro and was a war veteran. Before the war he worked as a part time barber as well as a truck driver. Colleen, who was also born in Asheboro, was a cafeteria worker at @ local high school. My sister was also born in Mount Airy, and is currently attending UNC-Chapel Hill in order to receive and dual major in psychology and art in order to be an art therapist. My shes My family’s country of origin was Scotland. We didn't know this until about five years ago, however. My grandma, Bonnie, seemed to believe that we have some type of ScottishHardy 2 ancestry so we went to a festival known as the Highland Games, which is held at Grandfather Mountain. The festival is held every year and itis just a big Scottish party, it has traditional dancing, music, food, sporting events and more. Most all of the people their have some type of ancestry that leads back to Scotland This is where we found out that our family was from Scotland and we found out we were apart of the Mackintosh Clan. This was very intriguing to my mother who has always been interested in our ancestry. After doing some digging my mom discovered de were from Glasgow, which is just over an hour west of the Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland. We have yet to find any reasons why our ancestors decided to leave, but I'm sure my mother will ind it eventually. The Scottish flag contains a white X that connects the flag from either corner and is surrounded by blue in the shape of triangles. The flag was originally adopted in the 15" century. The X was originally surrounded by red but was then eventually changed so it didn't look so jovi common seeing as red was a predominate color in most flags since the red is considered a | dis color of power. The current population of Scotland is 5.2 million and their government is a | tf constitutional monarchy. Their currency is the pound and their biggest money making asset is- the mass amount of tourists that come to Scotland, which | would love to do someday. Now that you know a little bit about where my family came from | will now talk about my family itself. As stated before, my family is very small and we are all very close, so | know a good deal about all of them. However, | will focus on my grandpa, Hal Boroughs, whom I have never met. He died much before my time and according to my mom, we would've been best friends. | didn’t really know much about him up until about a year ago when my grandmother past away. While going through her house my mom and uncle discovered a chest that contained all of Hals things, More interestingly they found a shoebox that contained numerous letters my grandmother had received from him while he was in the war. Neither my mom nor my uncle had ever seen this. Before this box they knew very little about his involvement in the war and it was largely kept a secret by grandma Coleen and grandpa Hal. Even when he arrivedHardy 3 back home little was said about what had happened. So this was the first real information they had ever seen about his involvement in the war, and naturally, it brought my mom to tears. ‘Along with the letters they found a few pictures of him, war medals, his wallet, his old barber tools, and the flag placed on his casket prior to being buried. My mom then took all the stuff we had found to a local framing shop and got everything framed. It is now the centerpiece of our, living room and | have included a photo of it in my slideshow. Also, an interesting note, | am colorblind and | got it from my grandfather. It skips a generation so my neither mother or uncle got it, but my mom was a carrier so now I have it. know very little about my great grandparents. | have heard soo Bode of course, but other than that I don’t know anything about them. On my moms side her grandma and grandpa on her moms side are Etter and Soloman Allen and they were both born in Star, North Carolina. Soloman was a tobacco farmer and Etter worked in a textile mill manufacturing socks. Then on my mom's dad's side there is William and Ola Boroughs who were both born in Seagrove, North Carolina, William was also a tobacco farmer and Ola was a schoolteacher. My dads grandparents on his moms side are Chester and Irene Simpson. Chester was a preacher and ran a farm supply store and Irene was a housewife and they were both born in Ararat, NC Then my dad’s grandparents on his mom’s side were John Dale and Bessie Hardy. John Dale was a tobacco farmer and Bessie was also a housewife, they were both born in Red Springs, NC. So as you can see my family is in fact very small. However | look at that as a blessing rather then something negative. Since we have such a small family it has allowed me to connect with everyone on a more personal level. Every Sunday after church my family goes and eats with my grandparents, which was always something | looked forward too. Over the summers | always enjoyed taking a few of my friends and going to my grandmas house. She would always ‘cook us lunch and then we would play with her dogs and help her around the house in anyway she needed, Memories like that are ones you never forget and if | didn’t have such a smallHardy 4 family | doubt | would be able to have such valuable time with the ones | love and have grown 50 close too.Hardy 5 Works Cited "The History behind the Scottish Flag.” Flag of Scotland. Scotland Tour Company, 3 Nov. 2014. Web. 13 Oct. 2016. 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