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I have chosen a picture of my husband's great grandmother Ann Maria Timpson, she must have been a very strong woman, she had 13 children and found time to help her bother William Timpson when he set up Timpson's Shoe Shops and later worked in her husband J T Butlin's shoe factory until her son took it over.
My great grandmother Geertruida Lammertse (right) and her sister Evertje.
Emma Mann is my 2nd great-grandmother. Born in St. Thomas, Ontario. After her musician husband left her for his piano player, she built a retail business in Kansas City and was quite successful.
Scott, Emma caught my attention, being from Ontario, the home of my mother's paternal family. She took me to Kansas City where I had found a second cousin (from my Ontario ancestors) and then her family travelled on to the West Coast. Returning to Ontario, I followed her Sutton ancestors until I fell off WikiTree, but on another tree was able to meet with my paternal Sutton ancestors.
Rebecca Barr Gambrel A.K.A. Marvel. Settler and pioneer. Immigrated to DeWitt County Illinois with her family. She had the first white child in DeWitt County, and her legacy is irrevocably tied to the region.
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Barr-3762
I should have linked her name to her profile, but there is a detailed history written by my distant cousin there. Also, coincidentally, the Barrs she comes from are not the same family I get my last name from.
The picture was taken in the late 1940s. It shows my wife's paternal grandmother, Elsa Amanda Petersen, nee Möller with her three sons. After her husband, Gustav Petersen, was drafted into the German Wehrmacht in the early 1940s and did not return from Soviet captivity until 1950, she raised her three sons alone for 10 years. She was a very resolute and assertive woman.
This is a photo taken about 1900 of my great aunts. They are my grandfather Scott Marvin's older sisters. There must have been a wonderful relationship between Elsie and Ellen with their blouses sewn together at the wrist area. Nellie is seated on the left, and Jennie is the oldest seated on the right.
Alexis.....I've been puzzling over this photo for some time.....Ellen is somewhat the youngest.....is she holding back a mischievous smile? Then I sidetracked.....she belongs to a remarkable family and her father fought in the Battle of Monmouth, New Jersey on the field that I had researched and found the residences of two of my wife's elusive ancestors.....not mention the very close relationship of these lady's ancestors to my wife's at the time. PS Thanks, Alexis, for clarifying.....I changed grandfather to father.
After my grandmother, Hattie Smith, graduated from Albany Business College, she went to work at Eaton Paper Company, in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. During the week she boarded in Pittsfield. On weekends she took the stage home to Stephentown. On the steepest part of the mountain, everyone had to get out and walk.
At Eaton's, there was already someone named Hattie, so someone decided, "we'll call you Peggy." "Peggy" soon became friends with the vivacious Auger sisters, who introduced her to their brother Art. Art was a quiet man (he used to say "with four sisters, I never got a chance to talk," )but he must have managed to say, "Hattie, will you marry me?" They were married in Stephentown in 1914. (The Auger family rode to the wedding in Father's 1912 Buick.) Art and Hattie were happily married for 58 years.
John, I added the car especially for you. I used it in an earlier post that you commented on. The family story is that they went to the wedding in the car. . . There were Art, his parents, four sisters, and young brother Paul. Do you think they all rode in the car?
Joyce! I certainly did remember the Buick. My wife tells me she travelled in the United States in her parents Ford with 3 sisters and 2 brothers while riding in the back window.....surely the Buick could accommodate all even with some sitting on laps or standing in the back.....those were the days.
Joyce, Did Art and Hattie ride together to the wedding? Were they separated, chaperoned, between front and back seats?
The fabulous 1912 Buick could sure make those hills, Joyce, and so could the people of the day.......separately of course......well together, depends on the hill......the question is downhill with those brakes of the day.
The woman in the center of this photo was my paternal grandmother's elder sister, Miss Lois Millar.
Lois was a remarkable woman who was attending Stanford University in 1908 studying law. She was due to graduate from the law course that year. She was also a member of the Epworth League (a Methodist youth association) and was active in temperance work. Unfortunately she died on 8 Jun 1908. She was loved in her community and had a big impact on her family always being remembered with praise and honor. (The other two women in the photo are unknown.)
This photo of two women was taken in the early 1870s. This estimated date is based on the baby in the photo. She is my great grandmother, Etta May Omelia-Allison (1872-1944). She is being held by my great-great grandmother, Catherine "Kate" Mumma-Omelia (1848-1935).
My Grandma, Amy and my Aunt Dorothy, at Bristol, England in 1956.
Don't they look like they are having fun!
My grandmother is the one in the middle back with her head turned to the side. I have another picture from this same party where they are playing a silly game I remember from when I was 10 or 11. I wish I could remember how it went, but I think it involved trying to make each other laugh by laying your head on the next girl's midsection, holding your nose and saying some sort of nonsense. Which tickled and inspired lots of giggles.
I'd never played that game, but it sounded familiar, so I looked it up. Here is a video.
This is a picture of my Great Aunt Lula Boy (with the corsage) and some of her friends possibly taken at her retirement party. She worked as a stenographer in the City Sanitation Department in Atlanta, Georgia. In 1940, she was living in a boarding house with an assortment of other stenographers, teachers, and a traveling piano salesman.
Here you can see my grandmother Gisela (first row on the right side) with friends of her. The picture was taken on Easter 1949.
These 2 women are my grandmothers, Della Madeline Bowes Weinheimer and Ethel May Eckel Richardson, https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Bowes-605 , https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Eckel-157 , looking through family photographs.
Me, too, Scott! Fortunately, they both made notes on the back of some of the mountain photos that they left.
Yes Mark! I have some great old photos, but who are they? and why am I keeping them my wife asks? Well, maybe someone will come along and say "Oh that's great grand uncle Bert with the steelhead he caught in 1929! Oh like that is going to happen when you are one of the oldest in the family! Ha! She's right!
My great grand mother Charlotte Maria Thompson (born 1840) with her daughter, Kathleen, and her grand daughter circa 1900 at Drumholm House, Cheltenham, England married to Surgeon General John Alexander William Thompson (born 1840). It took me decades to determine her LNAB until a cousin John Landers, on Ancestry, advised me of her father Wellington Browne, of a military family in India, where she was married. Her sons Henry, Rex's and my grand father, and Charles both served as Superintendents of Burma Police when it was part of India.
To good to pass up Jennie! I love this photo..lot's to think about when you look at it! Hey the Ringling Bros are comin' to town...let's go to the circus! Thanks for posting!
Jennie, Gordina appears to be the proud operator of the vehicle.
Jennie! When I first saw this photo, I thought Auntie Eliza! Here's a pic of Eliza, you tell me!
This is a picture of my 3rd great grandmother , Martha Jane Earles Anderson Denton White , with her 2nd husband , Overton Denton , and their son , George Anderson Denton, they migrated to Texas in the early 1880's , her first husband was Pleasant M Anderson, their daughter Nancy , was my 2nd great grandmother , who married Overton's nephew, Joseph H Denton , when Overton died she married Joseph White, It took me a bit to figure out where she was buried because her maiden name was misspelled, in some of the Texas records it was spelled Iryles
Couldn't resist Janine..just a touch up on this great old photo of your 3rd great grandmother! Thanks for posting.
Janine, Interesting photo......with an interesting pedigree.....reminds me of some of my ancestors and relatives I've enjoyed studying.
This is a picture of my very capable grandmother, Bird Smith Dawson, who was a wife, mother, teacher, historian, genealogist, author, and poet laureate of the Stillwell Family Reunions. She taught me how to sew, and she wrote the theme poem for the Stillwell family, the last stanza of which was on each place card at the reunion dinner. The last stanza goes as follows.
"Here's to the Stillwells one and all. Let every heart respond. May we honor the name and give it fame 'till we meet in the Great Beyond."
Thankyou, Marion, for elaborating on this line of ancestors......before I came to WikiTree I was aware of what you described and had memorized some of the other related lines of descent.....I am interested in reviewing this line and there must be many more cousins to find in doing so. .
Well, the question is right here. To find the Free Space Gallery, look at the heading Photo Sharing of the Weekend. Step two of the instructions has the link (which is underlined) to This Week's Free Space Gallery. Click there.
Jim, I had to go through the learning process for some time.....if it doesn't work at first don't hesitate to keep asking.
Doris May Lindsay Laurin my natural maternal grandmother (she passed away 11 days after my mother was born) worked as a librarian and chaplain at The Framingham Women's Reformatory (prison) in Framingham, Massachusetts, for two years. And then she joined her husband in his ministry, throughout Massachusetts and New Hampshire.
Couldn't resist, too good of article on family so I touched it up for you, Keith. Thanks for posting!
You're welcome. Remember The Children has images like: a baby in the womb (for a stillbirth), a crib (for an infant death), a little elephant with a big elephant (for a toddler death), a swing hanging from a tree (a small childs death), hearts that I like to use for a background...you can get to Remember The Children if you click on the {{ Died Young }} sticker you mentioned and here's the direct link: Remember The Children I'll show you an example but I have to post this first otherwise I'll lose it. Example: Steven Vinal
Euphemia, Agnes, Jane, Isabelle (Wilkie sisters) and child, Laurel Belle Reid (my great-grandmother). They emigrated from Scotland to Illinois. Photo taken ca. 1900 in Cass County, Illinois.
