When I found a newspaper clipping about someone searching for a Michael Mattimoe, it gave me goosebumps. This was a whisper from the past. A small one, but one that was 166 years old. Was this our Michael Mattimoe? Our immigrant ancestor who left Ireland during the Great Famine? Was someone in his family looking for him so long ago?
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How is it we are here, walking this path in life? What circumstances had to happen in order for our great grandfather Henry Mattimore to be born in Renovo, Pennsylvania in 1862 in the midst of the American Civil War? His parents, unknown to each other, had come from different parts of Ireland on different ships at different times, and had somehow ended up in proximity to each other in the same American city.
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