Interesting email from Grandmom.....

I received an interesting email today from my grandmother giving me some information I never knew about my family.....I never knew that I had any other firefighters in my family but one. And I had found that out about a year or so ago. Turns out it must really be in my blood and explains why I have fought so hard and still am fighting to be who I am. 

One person specifically deserves soo much credit for me getting this far....Matt if it had not been for you I never would have joined, I never would have pushed and I would have quit before I got started. Thank you so much for encouraging me when I needed it and kicking me in my ass end when I needed that too :) Even now, because you supported me so much, I now have my First Responders and made it to semester 2 of EMT-I school....when I wanted to lay down you picked my ass back up and told me to get up and keep walking. Thank you so very much Matt! You are my Silent Hero....and my loud alarm clock...lol! 

I hope my Grandmom doesn't mind but I am copying her email and posting it here:

"I just found your website.  I wanted to tell you that being a fire-fighter is in your blood.  I talked to Robert Williams, my cousin (Ladder 49).  He told me how many of my ancestors were fire-fighters.  He and his wife went to Ireland and discovered that my Great-Great-Great-grandfather was a Fire chief.

Here in Baltimore My Great-Uncle, his sons and their sons and grandsons were all Fire-fighters."

Jon Travolta and my Grandmothers Cousin Robert Williams on scene of the movie Ladder 49

 

"Any way, I saw him last week, and met some other second cousins that are fire fighters.  One is named Thomas Adcock, another Eric Williams they both know Ira. He is the one you met, right?  The fire house that you visited on Fort Avenue has the name Patrick J O'Connor on the front.  Robert's wife is the daughter of Patrick J. O'Connor.  I had two Great Uncles that I knew in my lifetime.  Edward Williams, and James Williams. They were both my mother's mother's brothers.  Robert's father was John Williams, but he wasn't a fireman.  Uncle James had two sons that were fireman.  James, Jr. has passed away, but two of his sons are fireman, and I think their sons are also fireman."