I was born Sept 11, 1941 in the Sayre hospital, to Kenneth V and Evalyn (Evelyn) Grover Sullivan. I have one younger brother Thomas Earl, born at Soldiers and Sailors Hospital in Blossburg on July 14, (I may have to change that) 1944. When I was a baby, we lived in Troy, Pennsylvania, as did my mother's family. My father and grandfather both worked for the REA out of Mansfield, then. Before Tom was born we moved to Mansfield to a house on North Main St, right across from the cemetery. I played in that cemetery a few times. When I was in first grade, we moved to Columbia Cross Roads so my father, who had become a serviceman for the REA could be closer to the customers he served. He also was the meter reader and I spent quite a bit of time riding around with him reading meters. Wells Township, where he had been born, was part of his route. When I got a little older he would let me enter the readings into the meter book and do the math to figure out how many kilowatts they had used. I guess that's why I recognized so many of the Wells township names when I started checking out censuses to trace my father's family.
I looked through the entire census of the area, trying to figure out where that spot was that he had pointed out to me as being where he had been born. He gave me little hints on who in the area was related, but never went into much detail. Last year my granddaughter decided to have her mother and me do a dna test and when I saw that I had more Irish dna than my daughter did, I became curious about why that was, since I had been under the impression that her father was more Irish than I was. I have only been doing this since about October, 2016, but it is fascinating. And memories of what my father said have been very helpful. And the same goes for my mother's side. I want to make sure everything they told me gets taken advantage of before I die so I am concentrating on the first and second generations back, for now. Trying to figure out what happened to all my aunts and uncles and great aunts and uncles.

I was born Sept 11, 1941 in the Sayre hospital, to Kenneth V and Evalyn (Evelyn) Grover Sullivan. I have one younger brother Thomas Earl, born at Soldiers and Sailors Hospital in Blossburg on July 14, (I may have to change that) 1944. When I was a baby, we lived in Troy, Pennsylvania, as did my mother's family. My father and grandfather both worked for the REA out of Mansfield, then. Before Tom was born we moved to Mansfield to a house on North Main St, right across from the cemetery. I played in that cemetery a few times. When I was in first grade, we moved to Columbia Cross Roads so my father, who had become a serviceman for the REA could be closer to the customers he served. He also was the meter reader and I spent quite a bit of time riding around with him reading meters. Wells Township, where he had been born, was part of his route. When I got a little older he would let me enter the readings into the meter book and do the math to figure out how many kilowatts they had used. I guess that's why I recognized so many of the Wells township names when I started checking out censuses to trace my father's family.
I looked through the entire census of the area, trying to figure out where that spot was that he had pointed out to me as being where he had been born. He gave me little hints on who in the area was related, but never went into much detail. Last year my granddaughter decided to have her mother and me do a dna test and when I saw that I had more Irish dna than my daughter did, I became curious about why that was, since I had been under the impression that her father was more Irish than I was. I have only been doing this since about October, 2016, but it is fascinating. And memories of what my father said have been very helpful. And the same goes for my mother's side. I want to make sure everything they told me gets taken advantage of before I die so I am concentrating on the first and second generations back, for now. Trying to figure out what happened to all my aunts and uncles and great aunts and uncles.