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My great-grandfather Kenneth LeRoy Brown I called him Pawpaw. He was born in a little town in Iowa called Davenport with a population of a little over 100,000 people. My great- grandfather was put up for adoption and a nice family adopted him and they moved to Michigan. My great-grandfather had four adopted siblings. He would of had five but one of his adopted siblings died as a infant. My great-grandfather met my great-grandmother, moved to Shreveport, Louisiana and started a family. My great-grandmother had Dolores Brown Porter, who is my caring and loving grandmother today. She is an only child. She was born and raised in Shreveport and Saline, Louisiana and plans to live here for the rest of her days. My grandmother went on a blind date and met my grandfather who was born in Old Fort,North Carolina. A few years later my grandparents got married when/where. Soon after my Uncle Patrick was born and six years later my father was born in Shreveport, Louisiana at Schumpert Hospital. Once my father grew up he married my mother in Jamaica. That same year my mother gave birth to my brother. Four years later I was born! I was also born in Shreveport, Louisiana. …show more content…
The bars on the side of the cradle is the base and there are hooks holding up the cradle which are connected to the base. On the side of the cradle there is little pieces of lace to give the cradle a little bit of extra detail. On the inside there is a panda and a yellow knit blanket that my great-grandfather used when he was a baby. When my great-grandfather deceased the cradle was passed down to my grandmother. When my uncle was born my grandmother used it for him. When my dad was born he used the baby cradle. The baby cradle is very important to my family because my great-grandfather, uncle, and father grew up using this baby cradle and it will stay in my family for a very long

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