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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Parks 788" data-source="post: 3656866" data-attributes="member: 14646">I havre some interesting family.  Not Well known but one developed something that just about everyone on here has used many times in their lives, directly or indirectly.My grandfather on my moms side held the patten on the (not the shoping cart itself) way the toddler seat in the shopping cart folds closed as well as the way the shoppng carts stack together into each other.  My aunt who is now 73 was the toddler in the advertizing brochures for the new concept.  At the time he owned an industrial cart manufacturing company.  Needless to say he retired before he was 50 years old.My mom's great, great aunt or something like that was Gene Stratton Porter.  She was a famous author, writer and naturalists from the early 1900s.  My aunt Genie, shopping cart toddler seat model, was named after her.  The not so great family history:  My dad's dad was born and raised on what I was told the Cherokee reservation in Tahlequah.  He was born with a different last name than I have now.   Apparently his father had a couple horses and the story is that something happened between his horse and a black man and the man punched his horse in the nose or head and the horse flipped out.   Seems as though my grandfather's dad ended up killing the man for doing this.   The story goes that the local authorities knew he killed the man and told him to pack up he and his family (my grandfather was jsut a little kid at the time) and leave Oklahoma or he would be arrested for murder.   They packed up and moved to the central valley of CA.    My grandfather was in and out of prison much of his life and was a rough old crusty man that lived a rough, hard life that was mostly self induced.</blockquote>

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