This is a two part story that I will relay to you all today and tomorrow. Our Great Grandparents, Joseph Peter Hillanbrand and Ellen Francis (pictured with some of their children, including our grandfather) were married on June 29, 1898. Their marriage, apparently, was a tumultuous one. In my possession, I have a letter dated October 9, 1901, that Joseph had sent to Ellen in Girardville, Schuylkill County from Philadelphia. Ellen had left their home in Philadelphia, to be with her parents and took our grandfather, who was one year old, with her. Joseph asks for forgiveness from some indiscretion and asks her to come back home. He says, "...when you come home we will try to get along better than before without fighting..." What the original problems were, I did not know, for it did not manifest itself in the letter. What was the indiscretion? Well, I found out this past week. You will want to tune in tomorrow.