history notes

Who doesn't love family history, especially our own? It is the weft and warp of ones very being. It is these histories that are woven together to create the final weave that we are to become. Our history is how we define who we are. Baseball is one of the threads in my weft, it becomes a part of the story of how I became me. It is Anna and Guys very personal and true story as such. Guy Victor Joseph Daines was born on December 14th, 1912. He was born to Guy Logan Daines and his wife Barbara Bihl Daines. He was delivered at home, 506 West 10th Street, Newport Ky, by Mrs. Anna Showalter, Midwife ( my grandmother's grandmother) at 5 PM. They literally grew up right around the corner from each other. Anna Margaret Botts was born in New Albany Indiana on March 14th, 1916 to Margaret Showalter and Arthur Botts. When Anna was about three years old her father was murdered on his way home from a payday card game after work. Margaret (Maggie) Showalter Botts then moved her family back home to Newport Ky. She lived out her life in the home on West 11th street, with her 5 children and two sisters. I have heard it said that a tragedy of that scale is similar to a genetic imprint and that it remains as a ghostly image affecting each succeeding generation in some way, woven into our very souls and impossible to escape the inherent effects.