W.C.Cruce
Daddy was a Great Guy a Great Carpenter and a Wonderful Dad, who Raised us through all these years in the good times and in the hard times,
Thanks Daddy for all The Help and understanding over the Years
I'll never fotget my first trim job i was about 16, i trimmed out my first window and had the joints just so and i was so proud and daddy came in and looked at it, (im waiting for a comment) he took his claw hammer and ripped the header trim right off the window lolll, alrighty then, well I'll have to get better i thought, yea he wanted it Right!, you can bet the next one was, yea buddy
ya didn't wear gloves on daddy job or uncle jims - they would send ya home
another time was when it was about 20 degrees and we were all standing around the fire, suns not even up yet, daddy going like a 601 Ford Workmaster Tractor, he saids (ya not gonna want to WORK standing around the FIRE) lollll, the hammer handle freezing to my hand!
Daddy was a Hard Worker, always was, I remember him working me in the ground at age 60
as we're carrying 2x4 or 2x6 and lumber across the yard, i look up at daddy, and he's like a machine and im dragging back saying to myself (dang) lol
(daddy at age 60) i also remember a comment of a fellow worker Charles.S, saying daddy to old to be out here, he needs to be at home resting
as he's watching daddy going hard at work, this fellow Charles.S, is sitting down breathing hard, out of breath, sweating his brains out, sucking on a drink and taking a 30 break
20 years younger, he couldn't keep up with daddy, lollllll on anyday of the week!
Stan Cruce snellville ga.
wed feb-13-2008
To Mr Cruce Family
Thinking of you and wishing you peace in your special time of need, Mr.
Cruce was such a blessing to me and others at CVS, We enjoyed his
visits so much, We were saddened to hear of his passing, He is truly
missed.
Personal Letter Sent from Jacqueline Barrett
CVS Snellville Ga
sat- feb-9-2008
The way I will remember PaPa is
being a loving spirited grandad who always made me smile...(I am known as
DUDE BOY) and my life is surrounded with his LOVE.. being that I drive
the car he gave me and the coins he left to my children and All the
flowering tips not to mention the flowers that some how Majically grow
every year due to his magic green thumb..And yes the attitudes of PaPa are
also something i remember and for some reason has become a big part of
my life seeing how if you want to get anything done out in public PaPas
way always seems to do it...And I've picked up on that...Dare i say,
it just comes naturally! I'll miss our cook-outs AND I LOVE YOU AND I
MISS YOU!!!!!!!!!
Stacey Jeannine Moon
Snellville Ga
fri- feb-15-2008
God Bless a member of the Greatest
generation. We have lost so many.
Thomas Cumberland
Snellville ga
fri feb-15-2008
Uncle Stan
Thanks so much for the website. It means a lot to me. I would love to
know more of our family tree if you have it.
Love the picture of Papaw in the german hat - he loved showing my
husband Steve those pictures and it was the first time I got to hear the
stories. I treasure them so much.
I hear David is not doing real well. I tried to email him but did not
get a return. If you talk to him tell him I send my best wishes. I
did find David's boy Sam and we have been chatting. It is nice to find
those family members we have not seen in so, so many years. Hope
everyone is doing well there. Please tell Donna and Stacy hi...
Love
Paula
Worthington Pa
bcerga@yahoo.com
sat- feb-16-2008
I'll always have very found memories of my PaPa Wash Cruce. He was a man who rarely ever cross dressed except for on the weekends of course, but as he so often said, " thats none of no one's business..."
I'm kidding of course but he always loved and appreciated the humor!!!
He had a great sense of humor and we always found a way to make each
other smile and laugh.
The more time I spent with him I noticed myself changing and using more of his
personality. We had awesome times together but I found out over time that it would take several lifetimes to hear all of his great stories and adventures he did in his lifetime......
He was a man who always stood up for what he believed in. No one could
ask for a better grandfather.
He was always there for me, one morning he came driving up shocking me
with a truck and then a few months later again with a new car which I still have both and love driving them to this day!
I enjoyed working side by side with him on jobs and projects, We made
lots of money working together and I'll never forget all the tricks he taught me from when to shop...Money saving tricks, Wood work, Antique spotting and pricing all the way to making alot more money and so very
very much more.
Papa always spoke his mind and I seriously appreciated that about him because so few people do anymore!
I was there often helping Papa cook dinner and told him countless
times that he should hang a sign on his door reading
"REAL HOME COUNTRY COOKING". I still to this day, haven't tasted better food than that!
We would get in there and by the time we were thru we ended up with
wayyyy more food than we could eat, But man was it delicious!!!!!!!!!
At least once a week we would drive around and he would show me places
and tell me who used to live there
what they used to do and well just the history of the area that I never
had any idea about before him telling me.
On our little rides we would often stop and talk to people and I was
always amazed how they would respond to learning about the area that they lived in and what it used to be.
Alot of times we would have to figure out a way to cut the convo short
with the people because they always wanted to hear more......
I'll never forget helping him out with his yard sales at his house,
Settin there talking with him and then sure enough nearly everyone that pulled up for the sale he already knew and they knew him
so it usually turned out to be a big gathering of lots of people talking and staying there most all day when they started out just following a bright sign saying " yard sale " on it .......
Another great skill my Papa had was the ole saying " you cant judge a
book by its cover"
Well he could
as a matter of fact he would say what he thought about a person
and amazingly once we got to know them better I found out he was always absolutely correct!
On that note, I noticed that it was not just with people he was right about but with most everything because he unlike most people wouldnt talk about stuff
that he didnt know about, so if he had something to say--- I was sure
listening......
My Papa often had a friend named Jim come over and they would set on
the front porch and talk about their time in the war and I swear there is not a person alive that could have walked away from the conversations they were having about their times back in the war.....
One of our last projects together was building a roll around coffee
table. I was looking for something simple and fast just because of its convenience well that and how cool the one he has at his house.
We started working on it in the morning and by the evening he had created an
awesome work of art, so good looking that, I hate to use it in fear of scuffing it.......
I should have known tho, looking back because he was a woodworking master and all his so called lil wood projects ended up being works of art that should all be in display cases to be observed!
I could simply go on forever about all the great times we had together
but in closing I'd at least like to say that, my grand daddy Wash Cruce was a man that figured out a way to live a million lifetimes in a single life!!!!!!!!!!!!
We all love you and we will always miss you Papa..............
Jim Cruce
snellville ga
sun- feb-17-2008
This is really difficult to write, because I have a hard time believin you're not just up the driveway to talk to and learn from......
Ok, so to the point (like you would want it to be)
Papa...a man who said what he meant and meant what he said. ( I always
respected that)
People say once you come in contact with greatness it never
leaves you...this may just be a sayin to some...but to those who knew Papa...you'd understand.
His wisdom, his kindness---blunt out honesty (whether you like'd it or
not) was always in our best interests.
Thank you Papa...We will remember you ALWAYS & miss you Greatly...but
know that you're forever with us and obviously in...our...hearts.
P.S. I miss your black eyed pea soup <-- yankee (note from stan, amber we call it black eyed peas down here)
amber cruce
snellville ga
sun- feb-17-2008
I don't remember much
but I do remember one thing. At the age of nine, he was carrying me home and he asked me "son, you know what day it is?"
I replied back "no", and he said "it's my birthday!"
I'm not sure if I remember correctly, but I think it was the day of Granny's funeral. I never forgot about him.
I hope everyone is doing well, I know I'm representing well over here
for the family.
Thanks for the page Stanley, it's really nice.
Your brother Dave, my dad, is not doing so well.
Diabetes has gotten hold of him, as well as foot gout. He lives in Melbourne, Fl. now with my brother Joe, and his wife.
If anyone would like to know more of anything about Danielle, Joe, Myself, Shawn or David, please feel free to post me.
Thanks again, for this awesome page!
Samuel Wash Cruce
Toccoa ga
scruce@tfc.edu
sun- feb-17-2008
I do not remember much about PaPal seeing I was so young the last time we were together but, One memory stands out in my mind to this day.
PaPal was building there house and they were staying in a trailer there on the property.
PaPal came up to me and asked me if I wanted a coke, I told him Yes (of course) and he took me to a little shed off the camper and it was full of coke!
I remembered feeling like I had walked into a candy store.
PaPal and MaMal (as me and my brothers called them) were very sweet and very to the point.
I wish now that Im older that I would have known them better as they were
taken from me and my brothers at such a young age
but, they will always be in my heart and memories.
Danielle Cruce
Commerce
Georgia
danflower777@yahoo.com
Tue-feb-19-2008
I always loved hanging aroumd with Daddy (Claud Ray) and Wash.
They had such a good time together.
Wash would always call me to come over and look at his latest finds, and it
was nice to have him to talk to since Daddy's death.
He reminded me so much of my Grandpa Cruce (H. Claude Cruce) his uncle.
I will greatly miss our phone conversations and his laugh.
Sandra Cruce Satterfield
sandracruce@bellsouth.net
Bishop
Ga.
Mon-feb-25-2008
Papa is and always will be remembered by me as fun when he helped me build a tree house for my children and we shared always pictures and letters (I STILL HAVE THOSE LETTERS)
He always for Christmas would have the children a little something in there christmas card and presents
Darien and I would go to his house
he would talk about Staceys preserves and how he liked them so much and how Jim and Amber would help him in his yard and spend time with him of course he talked all the times about STAN CRUCE my dad if he needed anything he came to him
or PaPa always told me of his life and his days in the war he always came to my dads house he would wave at me going down the driveway
before i would go up to his house he seen me
he would come down the drive and he would talk to us as in Missy Stacey Jim and me before he went to talk to my dad then he would sit at the table outside one time jerry made burgers and we split one they were so big Papa asked me if i wanted half i said of course!
My family will always miss him
BUT HE WILL ALWAYS BE IN OUR LIFE!
Donna Stephens
austin9haley7@yahoo.com
monroe
ga
Sun-march-9-2008
A cousin forwarded me to your site.
I am blown away by the photos!
I am married to Donnie Robertson whose grgrgrandmother was Sarah
Adelain Medford Lanier Cruce married To Moses Nelson Cruce.
His grgrandfather George J. W. Robertson married Moses and Adeline's daughter Mary Jane Cruce and George J. W. Robertson's brother Thomas B. Robertson married their daughter Alice Caroline Cruce.
I was pleasantly surprised to see these old photos and especially Charles W. Cruce who also came to Texas.
Do you have any idea at all where Moses Nelson Cruce, Sr. is buried at? (note from Stan: Yes i Do)
We know he died in Gwinnett Co. in 1880 as per the 1880 mortality
census but no known burial place. Adeline is in Oakwood Cemetery in Ft.
Worth.
Adeline, Alice Caroline, Thomas B. Robertson, Charles/Charlie W. Cruce
and his wife Mollie/Laura Orton are all buried in Oakwood Cemetery in
Ft. Worth and are posted in the findagrave site with headstone photos
except for Thomas B. Robertson who has no marker.
I love your site and am just amazed that you rescued these old photos!
Kay Robertson
kayrobertson1@yahoo.com
San Angelo
Texas
Mon-march-10-2008
My mother was Ozella Davis who was Emily Josephine Hazelrigs daughter>
Mama married Troy Davis of Lawrenceville ..he died in 1981 and Mama passed in 1988
I came across this website by accident and here I find I have relatives
other than Davis\'s after all! Good to know
Ozella and Troy had 7 children 3 died as infants Peggy, Dottie and
Bobby..Carol was born Oct-2-1930 and lives in Atlanta
Kelly was born Nov-9-1933 and died in 1993 in Chicago, Jerry was born in 1942 on Oct-29 and I came along in May 1949...nice to meet you
Ann
Ann Ellinas
annellinas@yahoo.com
Bethlehem
Ga
Tue-March-18-2008
Hi, Stan
My sister Ann forwarded your info to me; we are both so excited to find some relatives on this side of the family
I moved from Lawrenceville to New Orleans in 1961 to attend Tulane University; married my college sweetheart, who was a native of New Orleans; and had one daughter, Katherine, born October 23, 1974. She now works for the Washington Post Companies in D.C. I graduated from Tulane, served almost 40 years in various military assignments, married twice more (including one to a Coast Guard officer) before retiring from the Coast Guard as a Commander in 2002. I am currently volunteering as a member of the Civil Service Commission in New Orleans and as chairman of the City's retirement system. My current wife, Dr. Lyn Ledbetter, is a retired college professor; we have been married since December 1, 1995.
After evacuating to Tennessee because of Hurricane Katrina, we liked the area so much that we bought a summer home in Cookeville, where we love to spend as much time as possible during the warmer months. Lyn is a cousin to the Gores (Al and his kinfolk), so we have lots of relatives there, nice people. In 2006 we realized a lifelong dream and bought a home in the French Quarter, steps off Bourbon Street.
We travel a good bit in my role as a pension trustee (searching for new investments for the Fund); would love to get together someplace soon to share photos and memories. I have a few pictures from the Cruce/Hazelrigs side of the family - Emily Josiephine(my grandmother, who raised me while Mama worked) and her husband Albert Hazelrigs; believe I have one of her parents as well.
Jerry D. Davis
polymath.jerry@gmail.com
Commissioner, New Orleans Civil Service
March-21-2008
'Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted' - Prof. Randy Pausch
each email has to be put in manually
Thanks everybody from Stan
