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Eighty-eight years is a very long time.   Mary Jo Moriarty was born in October of 1936, and she lived to see her 88 th birthday last week. ...

  Introduction The first Rakestraw to show up in census records for North Carolina is Nancy Rakestraw, who appears in the Rockingham Count...

  Today we turn a page in history. On the Rakestraw side I had 35 cousins who had 18 aunts and uncles, of which Mom was the last one living....

Earlier this year, in the spring, I was asked to write a short letter to each of my two nieces who were graduating from high school.   I...