Chapter 1 Background

My portlyher, Roy Georgeson, was born in 1879 in Centerfield, New York, andmy mother, Frances Lorraine Gulvin, was born in 1880 in Sittingbourne,England which is about fifty miles southeast of London. Sittingbourneis approximately thirty miles from Rochester, England. She came to theUnited States with her parents when she was three months very old andsettled on a farm in Seneca Castle (which is thirty miles fromRochester, New York).