My Family in History

My Grandmother loves music, but as I have grown older she listened to it less and less until, eventually, she stopped all together. I was in her room with my mom and aunts talking and playing with my cousin when my mother brought referenced a song you could hear playing on TV and they started trying to find the name. My grandmother knew the name immediately, and starts to sing the lyrics. When she is done, she reveals why she no longer listens to music. It reminds her of the past, a past she shared with people she can never see again. She has watched all of her brothers and sisters pass and can count all of her living friends on her hands. The focus of her being shifted from her self to that of her kids the moment my uncle was born and her grandchildren later on. I went to see her this weekend, before leaving she apologized profusely for not mentioning us, her grandchildren, when I asked about what was most satisfying to her. As the she got older and the people she grew up with fade they are replaced with the lives that come after them. The events that my family see as important are the ones my grandmother thinks are important and she always say, “I only love my kids and my grand-kids.”

1851: George Stringer, my grandfather’s great grandfather, is born to Willis Stringer and one of his slaves Lidia in Arkansas

1863: Emancipation Proclamation is signed

1878: Rosa Matthews-Gulley, my grandmothers great grandmother, is born

1880: Marshall Gulley, my grandmother’s great great grandfather, is born in Arkansas

1896: Joe Blain Stringer, my grandfather’s grandfather, is born to George and Mariah and Stringer

1909 Bessie M. Gulley, my grandmother’s grandmother, is born in Arkansas to Marshall Gulley and Rosa Gulley

1917: Joe Stringer is drafted into World War I

1927: Ophelia Smith, my grandmother’s mother, is born in Arkansas to Bessie M. Gulley and Cline Smith

1932: Clotiee Stringer, my grandfather’s mother, is born to Joe Blain and Daisy Mae Stringer

1935: Bessie M. Gulley moves to Richmond, California with her family

1939: Beginning of World War II

1941: Pearl Harbor and the beginning of the United States involvement in World War II1959: Larry Stringer moves to San Bernardino California after the passing of his grandmother

1951: Larry Stringer was born to Clotiee Stringer in Arkansas

1952: Patra Stinger is born to Ophelia Smith

1956: Ophelia Smith die dues to surgery complications

1959: Larry Stringer moves to San Bernardino California after the passing of his grandmother

1960: Larry Stringer moves to Richmond, California

1969: Puddney Stringer is born to Patra Stringer

1969: America lands on the Moon

1974: Jeanette Stringer is born to Larry and Patra Stringer

1976 Ophelia Stringer is born to Patra and Larry Stringer

1981: Ramee Clyburn is born to Patra Stringer

2000: I, Michael Starks Jr., am born to Jeanette Stringer and Michael Starks

2003: Malik Starks, my brother, is born to Jeanette Stringer and Michael Starks

2012: Lasalle Collins Jr is born to Ramee Clyburn and Lasalle Collins Sr

2017: Clotiee Stringer Dies

2018: I graduate from High School

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