Ancestral Histories- Edwin Alfred Pettit

My great great grandpa was Edwin Alfred Pettit.  He was born the 16th of February 1834 in Hempstead Queens New York.  I remember as a kid my Dad telling me a story about Edwin and how he became a pioneer.  When he was 12 years old he was living in Navoo with his gaurdian and siblings.  His older sister was married and when the saints started leaving Navoo to head West she and her family where going as well.  Edwin didn't want to get left behind so he snuck away from his guardian and went to the camp where his sisters family was staying.  The next morning his gaurdian and brothers came and found him and brought him back to the gaurdians home.  Edwin then made an aquantance who promised to lead him back to his sisters camp.  Edwin snuck out of the home right under his gaurdians nose and they headed off toward the camp.  The next day in order to avoid detection Edwin wore a bonnet and dress and pretended to be a girl.  When his gaurdian and brothers came looking for a young man who had entered camp they couldn't find him.  And so, that is how Edwin Alfred Pettit was able to travel across the plains with his sisters family and join the saints in Salt Lake.  If he hadn't have come with the saints than he probably would never have met his wife and our family wouldn't be as it is now.  

Ancestral Histories- Thomas Pettit

Thomas Pettit (son of Henri Pettit) was born in Widford England around 1609.  He was one of the Puritan emigrants that came over in 1630 on The Talbot one of seventeen ships lead here by John Winthrop for religious freedom.  He was granted a plot of land in Boston at the exact area were the capitol of Massechucetts now stands.  Thomas came to America for religious freedom but when the Puritan way of life grew stricter and laws where made that you pretty much could only be puritan and not another religion Thomas didn't agree.  He was a sympathizer with Anne Hutchenson and soon after her banishment from Massechussetts his family was as well with a group of others who thought the same way.

I think it is cool that I have a anscester who wasn't afraid to stand up for what he believed in.  My younger brothers middle name is Thomas after this Thomas.  I hope that he will be just as courageous and full of integrity.

Bucket List

My Bucket List- things to do before I die

Get a PhD in a field of interest

Slide down a sand-dune on a laminated world map

Run a full marathon

Do B.F.T.D. for at least 10 ancestors-current

Have an art piece put in a public art museum

Publish a CD with my piano songs on it-current

Publish a philosophic novel

Publish a fantasy novel-current

Publish a religious novel

Have an article published in the Ensign

Start a magazine called "Renaissance Woman"

Publish a book of poetry-current

Draw a series of cartoons- current

Direct an action movie

Learn karate or judo

Be able to do the splits

Build a giant sandcastle

Film said sandcastle getting destroyed slowly by the waves

Sleep in a snow cave that I built

Plant a kumquat orchard

Live in Washington D.C. for at least a month

Go to Egypt and sail part of the nile

Go to Easter Island and have an Easter Egg hunt with family

Be able to hold my breath for a whole 2 minutes

Take out a patent on a household item that I invented

Eat chinese food for a month

Hike Mt. Olympus in greece

Fly first class on an airplane by invitation

Recreate a Mona Lisa using Jello

Dive in a vat of Jello

Find my way out of a hedge maze in Great Britain

Be serenaded on a gondola ride in Venice

Cross the Delaware river in a rowboat

Speak 3 languages fluently

Be married in the Temple

Order pizza over the phone-complete

Ride a cow

Go on an LDS Mission

Find a cave behind a waterfall

Camp out on an island in the middle of a lake

Be nominated for a Nobel prize

Watch all the Pride and Prejudice movies ever made all in a row

Get atleast 5,000 hits for a YouTube flick by me

Name stars after all my Kids

create a purple marigold

start or fund a library in another country

teach english in another country

Eat dango in Japan

Sit under a Japanese blanket table

Mormon skinny dip under a full moon ;)

Kiss the guy I love in the top of a tree

Spend 100 dollars in one trip all on different kinds of cheese

Make my own kind of cheese

Take pictures of 100 sunsets and make a photo book- current

Be in a band- complete

build a house in a rock wall or at least live in one for a couple of days

Make a three point shot 10 times in a row- current

Win a game of racketball-current

Create a rain shadow

Visit Tillamook Oregon

Visit the Sea of Galilee

Get up on waterskis and actually ski

Catch a fish- complete

Kayak a level 3 rapid

Read Jesus the Christ all the way through

Crack a coconut

Have a Luau and roast a pig Hawaiian style

Have a mud fight- complete

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http://katelynpettit.blogspot.com/