52 Photos Week 19: Maternal

Question

Ready for week 19 of the 52 Photos challenge?

This week's theme:

MATERNAL

To participate, simply:

1. reply below, and
2. add a photo that fits the theme to this week's free-space gallery.

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Comments

52 Photos Week 19 Maternal

I wanted to share our second 5 generation picture with you. We also had one with my son.

Left to right is my mother Janet Leinen Smith Denoyer, then my grandmother Minnie Junker Leinen, I am in the middle - Cheryl Smith Hess, my daughter is on the end, Nikki Moore, and my grandson Jace Moore is sitting on my grandmother's lap.

We could have shown our age, and had my 15 year old grand-daughter in the picture, but this was the first time that my grandmother had seen her gg-grandson.

My grandmother is now deceased, and my 15 year old granddaughter is now married and going to have a baby in October. My how time flies. We will all be moving up one generation for the next picture.

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Beautiful photo Cheryl you look adorable I just love your fantastic red hair what a beautiful color, what a wonderful family you have and a adorable baby thank you for sharing

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Thank you for your loving compliment. You are really the sweetest person I have not meet!

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I wanted to share this picture of my Grandmother and my Mother. My mother was born in 1941 in Cornwall when my Grandfather was in the RAF stationed in the far North of Scotland. He did get to see them not long after she was born, though. The Salvation Army gave him the fare to get home to see them both, and he was always so grateful for that. I'm guessing this photo was taken to send to him.

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This is a photo of my Nana (Flossie Spade Love) holding my mother Helen Love Anderson. This is my favorite picture of them.  Nana was so loving, the best grandmother ever.  My mother was the cool mom that your friends would love to come over to see her.  Even the old boyfriends would come visit her.  The one thing I remember about my mother is that she would tell us to say hi and smile to everyone we passed.  She was a true ray of sunshine.   

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 What could be more maternal than this photo of my mother Helen Love Anderson watching over her husband George and their 3 children, Bonnie and the twins Janice and Jack.  We had just moved to this new house in Monrovia, California and I am sure it was quite the adventure for them all.  Happy Mother's Day Mom.  With love and adoration.

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Beautiful photo, so lucky to have five generations in one photograph.

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oops! meant to comment

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My mom and grandmother (c) 1943/44.

Mom died last year and I miss her!

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My brickwall includes this family. My cousin, Jeff, thinks this picture is his 4G Grandmother. Any help dating it would be appreciated. 

Answer 1

Lydia Deberry, born in 1864 and sadly died in 1891 at the young age of 27 years old, of some undisclosed infection according to news reports. She left behind four young children, the eldest was 5, the youngest being 5 month old. 

Comments

Wonderful photo of Lydia how sad she died when she was only 27 and left 4 children thank You for sharing Alex

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I love her dress, but how sad that she died at 27 leaving four babies behind.

Answer 2

I hope I am doing this correctly! This is my great great grandmother Dora Sutterfield. She is my mother's paternal grandmother. This is possibly on her wedding day. Note the lack of shoes!

Comments

You did a great job, and I love the clothes Dora is wearing. Thank you for sharing.

Answer 3

My Great Grandmother Nell Cox had eleven children and sixty grandchildren. I haven't tried to count the next two generations yet. One of my favorite family photos is of her with seven of her oldest children gathered around her (the horse in the background just makes it better), Based on ages, I am guessing it was about 1927. The other picture is of her with all of her adult children probably around 1965. My grandfather was her oldest and my mother was the oldest grandchild. 

Comments

Thank you Emily.  Those are great maternal pictures!

Answer 4

52 Weeks - Week 19  Maternal

Well, I had already shared the five generation picture, and did not want to get disqualified, so I thought I would share one of my favorite pictures with you.

This is a picture of my Dad, Harold Smith and me when I was a little girl. My dad was the best father any little girl could ask for. 

He cried at my wedding, he cried when I had my son. His heart broke when my sister died, and I think that is why he eventually died from a heart attack. I believe it was a broken heart.

But my dad was a good Christian man, loving father and husband.  I miss him so much, and I love him.

Comments

Thank you for this photo, Cheryl. It brought back memories as I have a very similar photo of my dad and me. Our dads came from the same era. Also, your comments could have been mine. I, too, miss and love my dad very much. Thanks again!!

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Awe, Robin. I cried reading your comments. Isn't it wonderful to have had such wonderful dad's when so many children grew up without them.

Thank you!

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Yes, Cheryl, I agree.

Answer 5

My favorite line to research is my direct maternal line, and this is my great-great-grandmother, Ida (Ramsey) Buckner - my mother's mother's mother's mother.

Here's what I know about Ida. She woke up at four every morning so she could have a full breakfast ready for husband Jimmy when he came in from milking the cows. Her biscuits were excellent. 

She was very small - possibly not even five feet tall. Sometimes when she tried to take the horse and buggy to town, the horses would ignore her and turn around and walk back home. 

She and her husband made the front page of their small town newspaper in 1919 when Jimmy filed for divorce. Jimmy claimed that Ida was unreasonably jealous. Ida said in the official petition that "she did not care anything about him and that she could get along better without him than she could with him."

But they didn't divorce, and they were still married when Jimmy died forty years later. 

Comments

Thanks for sharing a great story about Ida and Jimmy—especially their quarrel that made the newspaper front page.

Answer 6

My mom holding me.  Circa 1969

Answer 7

Elizabeth Campbell (1788-1879).  My maternal 4X Great-grandmother.  Elizabeth was born in Ireland and immigrated to Canada sometime between 1835 and 1850.  This is the only picture of her that I have been able to find.

Answer 8

https://www.wikitree.com/photo/jpg/Daignault-34-1

I can't seem to be able to add a photo. Not sure what I'm doing wrong.

Answer 9

Here's Mom  and me, Oct 1952.  She looks very happy, can't remember what i was thinking about. Must have been serious.

Comments

Great photo; thanks for sharing it. You're probably just trying to figure out what the person with the camera is trying to do.

Answer 10

My beautiful mother, Edith, with yours truly. She had waited many years to get pregnant and was so thrilled to finally be a mama.

https://www.wikitree.com/photo/jpg/Sichel-25-2

- except I can't figure out how to get the photo into my comment :( I uploaded it into the gallery, but??

Answer 11

This is the oldest image I have of any of my maternal ancestors.  I don't have the original, and I'm not even sure how I got this digital copy, but it's my 4th great-grandmother, Charlotte Susannah Kirkham. On the back it says the original was taken in 1858 or 59, when she was 84 years old. It must have been a hand-colored daguerrotype.

Answer 12

It was hard for me to find a picture of our mother's with their children without the father's also included.  This picture is one of the few I have with just mother and child.  This is a picture of my maternal grandmother, Stella MacCormac Lawson, who was my most favorite person in this world.  She is holding her 1st born child, her son, James B. Lawson, my uncle. The comment I added to this picture says, "What is striking to me about this picture is that my Grandmother saved the one where her face wasn't showing, no doubt because her face was not important to her on this day. What was important was the look on her first-born child's face. "

Answer 13

I thought I'd share this photo of a page from my great-grandmother's diary from 1895.  It's really touching to read how she describes her little boy and the way he spoke.  Her name was Mary Candace Dodds Sternbergh.  

Answer 14

Week 19 'Maternal'

Here’s a photo of the maternal side of my family (mom in middle front) Grandma Alice (Harrison-14231) left of mom, G-Grandma Lucy (Jones-67676) right of mom.

Comments

What a great photo! Looks like your family had a bit of a population explosion. Thanks for sharing it.

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She has an awfully tiny waist for having had three babies. Is there a story in that?

Answer 15

My son Travis and his daughter Kaya. This is my 19 straight week posting photos.

Answer 16

My grandfather Ernest Eugene Johnson c1900.

Answer 17

One of my favorite photos showing maternal care is of my great-great-grandmother Anna Marie Ayers Richardson sitting with five of her young grandchildren, whom she raised. Her daughter worked to support the family, so her mother cared for her children. To back this up, Anna Marie had seven children of her own and adopted another three, so she was definitely maternal.

Answer 18

A multi generational get together, mum 4 daughters, 10 grandchildren and a few great grand children with more on the way. Baby was due the day we all meet up 30th May 2015 but young Henry stay snug and arrived the following week.

Answer 19

This is Betsy Holman, worked as a Saloon Stewardess and sailed to America, returned to England, married in 1877, aged 37, travelled to Australia as a bride, had four children and passed away in Australia in 1939. aged 98 years.

Answer 20

Here is mine which is Jennie Rebecca Rominger Belton and her children. Her profile is https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Rominger-163