Following my father William Francois Vachet’s return from WWII he married Kathryn Diaster Silvers, born into an English and Irish family...

I spent my summers with my maternal grandmother Maude. She and her family had traveled from the mountains of Tennessee to the coal fields...

My grandfather, Thomas LeRoy Vachet, was born in the small farming community of Vincennes, Indiana in 1883. His father, Pierre “Peter”...