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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ladybranch, post: 223048, member: 44&quot;]As others have said my hubby and I would grab love ones, each other, because we are close to being antiques! Next would be family pictures of which many are daguerreotypes and ambrotypes, tintypes, etc. All the really old solid photography is in a large bureau drawer that could be easily slid out and rushed out the house in the matter of moments. Now if we had a few more minutes I would be playing Dolly Madison (Pres. James Madison&#039;s wife during the War of 1812, who disassembled the famous oil painting of Geo. Washington saving the canvas from the British before they burnt down the White House). I have a large oil of my ggggrandmother, the female progenitor/immigrant of my mainline (surname) ancestry line, late 1700s. I would not take time for such material possessions as silver, jewelry or furniture.</p><p><br /></p><p>This reminds me of a family story. In September 1938 one afternoon, the exact date escapes me, my mother was down at my paternal grandmother&#039;s (Connecticut) helping her prepare for a tea for retired teachers they both knew. My grandmother had taught for decades and my mother had either taught with the women or been taught by them. A terrible storm started and the large 3 story house started shaking. By 2pm all the women had called cancelling the tea. A next door man rushed in saying they needed to take refuge in the cellar and to take their valuables. Well my grandmother&#039;s house was full of antique furniture, silver, oil paintings, etc... My mother said my grandmother didn&#039;t even think about it. She calmly said **2 pair of shoes.** She had very painful feet that needed specially made shoes. It sometimes took months to get them made &amp; ordered. Outcome of story, they did not take to the basement; the backdoor off the kitchen started bowing in with the screws, hinges, moments from breaking when my mother and 80 yr. old grandmother pushed and shoved a huge old wooden icebox being used as a 2nd refrigerator across a huge kitchen in front of that door stopping it from buckling, blowing in; and this storm turned out to be the deadly 1938 hurricane that killed 100s in New England including a sister-in-law if my grandmother&#039;s who was at her summer cottage on the shore of Connecticut. My father was the family member who went down to the CT shore in a hearst several times whenever they got a call that more bodies had washed up to try to recognize his aunt&#039;s body. About 3 weeks later he finally spotted her in a massive line of bodies. What a ghastly sight it must have been.</p><p><br /></p><p>--- Susan[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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