Throwback Thursday. From my grandmother’s album. Durand, Illinois.
Looks like a picnic c. 1925
Tag: ancestors
Home Sweet Home Throwback Thursday
My grandmother, the one who taught me to knit, crocheted this antimacassar or doily. I stitched it onto a plain velveteen pillow. It’s at my sister’s.
My father Roy J. Hendricks (b. 1912) is the boy standing on the left. Uncle Alan Ray Hendricks(b.1916) is the baby on my grandmother’s Mary Alta’s (born Feb 7, 1892)lap. My grandfather is standing, Floyd Merle Hendricks.
My Father’s Grandmother Rosa Dayton Hendricks 1869-1958
on the back of a photo
With her sons Glenn on left and my grandfather Floyd Merle Hendricks on right
Four Generations
On my mother’s side.
I realized I posted this photograph five years ago. But they were still looking at me in my living room today
Melburn Clark Potter (1906-1940), my mother’s grandmother Mary Smith Rowley (1857-1917) in the middle and my mother’s Great Grandmother Charlotte Ann Clark Smith (1834-1926)
My Great Aunt Cecile 1897-1957
Cecile Rowley Caven
Identifying Marks on a Photo’s Back
My Grandfather’s Sister Jessie
Jessie Margaret Van Sickle, born 1878 passed in 1904, my maternal Grandfather’s sister. She is his only sibling who made it to adulthood. She was studying the singing of opera from what I’ve heard.
“died of consumption” it says on the Find-A-Grave post.
Barely legible but I’m grateful for the pencil notes
Neanderthal Museum Krapina Croatia
“Modern museum exploring the chronological evolution of humans, with focus on the Neanderthal period.” Muzej Krapinskih Neandertalaca
Throwback Thursday c.1922
Her brother Robert in cap to her right with their mother Charlotte behind him and brother John between in the back row and their father Judd to her left, just behind her and my Great Grandfather second from left
Uncle Edgar and Aunt Edna on the far right
At the Fair c.1940
Found in my paternal grandmother’s photo album
I think the boy is my father’s brother Harold (Butch) b.1928
Because the woman’s face is in the shadow of the hat brim, I’m not sure if that’s my grandmother
Here’s a photo of young Uncle Harold at my parents wedding August 28, 1939. He was seventeen years younger than my dad. Uncle Alan is on the right.
My Father’s Paternal Grandmother
My paternal grandfather Floyd on the right.
Rosa Dayton Hendricks passed in 1958.
Son Glenn passed in 1959.
My father’s father passed in 1967.
