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Gannam remembering his father - May 1985 He settled in Manchester, New Hampshire in a Lebanese community, farmed, worked in shoe factories, clothing mills, ran a store, and worked in a foundry during World War I. He also bought and sold apples during apple season. He told me that during apple harvest he would rent a two horse wagon for $2.50 per day and go to Derry, New Hampshire to the apple orchards about five miles from Manchester. He would buy apples for 50 cents a barrel, take eight barrels a trip to Manchester and sell them to the produce houses for $2.50 a barrel. He would make two trips a day. He nettled around $30.00 per day. He got a job as an apprentice in the foundry. He couldn't speak English. He became so good as a helper that when the war effort increased, he was recommended for a Master Molder's job which he held until the war stopped and the foundry closed down. |
| Click on the images above to view larger image. I have blown up the images of the three people visible in the photo. I believe this is Grandma Beecher - look at her bent left leg. Photo said Gannam Store 1919 but Gannams were not in Savannah at that time. Could this be in Manchester and be relatives of Grandpa Gannam? The place is decorated with garlands and two bells suspended from the ceiling. Could this be Maroon and Granda Gannam? Look at the ears on the man on the far right. The 1919 Manchester City Directory shows a Joseph J. Gannem with the designation "fruit 570 Elm bds. 559 Elm" and a Joseph Ganem "fruit bds. 559 Elm." I think all the variations of the Gannam name confused these Anglos and this was the same person. Elm Street was the main shopping street in Manchester at the time. See post cards under Manchester. |
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Gannam about his mother Annie Abraham - 1987 A year after moving South, we moved to the farm on Hopkins Street where Derenne School now sits. Our farm was a truck farm or vegetable farm. We raised all kinds of vegetables which my father sold to the stores and wholesale produce houses. This was hard work and it was year round. If it wasn't for momma, we never would have made it. Talk about pioneer women! She worked in the fields, gathered produce, cut wood, milked cows, fed the chickens, made clothes and cooked, besides her regular work. Click on image to view larger image. |
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Gannam about his father Karem George Gannam - May 1985 He loved flowers and was surrounded by them. The family store had a hand painted Marquee over the front and right in the middle was a bouquet of multicolored flowers, because he said, his daughter wanted it that way. NATIVE VEGETABLES; they must mean okra! |
