ancestors – Ruth E. Hendricks Photography

Family Tree on a Scrap of Paper

In my paternal Grandmother’s handwriting.

September 9, 2022 by Ruth Categories: PhotographyTags: ancestors, family, grandmother, Lincoln Illinois, photography, postaday, Throwback 5 Comments

Aunt Edna and a Horse

One of grandmother’s sisters
Edna Rowley Morey 1892-1990

September 1, 2022 by Ruth Categories: Photography, Throwback ThursdayTags: ancestors, aunt, Durand Illinois, family, grandmother’s album, horse, photography, postaday 5 Comments

Uncle Ralph at Work in the Field

July 27, 2022 by Ruth Categories: Photography, Throwback ThursdayTags: ancestors, Durand Illinois, farming, field work, photography, postaday 8 Comments

My grandfather Judd DeWitt VanSickle in the middle hugging his youngest son, my Uncle Robert. My grandmother Charlotte is sporting the sash, I believe. I calculate the date as Uncle Robert was born in 1914 and to me he looks about ten in this photo. Durand, Illinois or perhaps on vacation in the Wisconsin Dells.

From my grandmothers’s album

Looks like the women are wearing leather shoes.

July 20, 2022 by Ruth Categories: Family, Photography, vintageTags: 1924, ancestors, bathing costumes, childhood, fashion, grandmother’s album, photography, postaday, swim attire, swimming, vintage 12 Comments

Cecile Rowley Caven 1897-1957

One of my maternal grandmother’s sisters. My great Aunt. I found a portrait of her while I was cleaning out a box of papers. Married Morey Caven. I’m still trying to find more information.

Sisters Edna, Cecile (2nd from left), May, Charlotte (my maternal grandmother)

**Erickson Photography** Menomonie Wisconsin

May 4, 2022 by Ruth Categories: Photography, Throwback ThursdayTags: ancestors, Durand Illinois, family, Find a Grave, grandmother, Great Aunt, photography, postaday, Throwback Thursday 6 Comments

Children in Winter c.1916

From my Grandmother’s Album. Durand, Illinois. Uncle Robert (b.1914) I’m the left. Uncle John (b.1910) on the right. my mother Marian (b.1912) next to Robert with the light trim on her dark hat. She looks about four to me but maybe it’s 1917.

Don’t know child in the center wearing the white hat Robert, Marian, ? and John. A neighbor?
They had just one boy cousin.

March 2, 2022 by Ruth Categories: Family, Photography, Throwback ThursdayTags: 1916, ancestors, childhood, Durand Illinois, family, grandmother’s album, mother, photography, play, postaday, uncles, vintage, vintage fashion, winter 3 Comments

Baseball Team of Yesteryear

My paternal grandfather Floyd M. Hendricks born in 1892 in Pawnee, Illinois, is seated on the right with the line drawn to him. I see baseball gloves. They look to be a serious group of men.

February 16, 2022 by Ruth Categories: Photography, Throwback ThursdayTags: ancestors, Baseball, family, grandfather, Illinois, photography, postaday, Relatives, vintage 8 Comments

Born Feb. 7, 1892

Mary Alta Kerr Hendricks, my paternal grandmother, was born 130 years ago. She went by the name Alta. When my father was born they lived in Farmersville, Illinois. One summer my brother and I stayed with our grandparents and she taught me to knit. I was four years old.

This is just from the time she resided in a Nursing Care Center in Taylorville, Illinois. My grandmother kept a list of the afghans and shawls she knit for others during this period of her life.
Written inside the cover of her copy of The Book of Common Prayer.

Heritage from a post. May 2017. Ben H at WordPress says “This week, share a photo of something that says “heritage” to you. It can be from your own family or culture — a library, a work of public art, a place of worship, an object passed down to you from previous generations.”

I held the quilt to the window so the light could show how beautifully it is pieced and stitched.

She knit the blue Afghan and handstitched the quilt. She could tat and crochet, too. Made egg noodles and hung to dry on a broom stick.

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 lap. My grandfather is standing, **Floyd Merle Hendricks**.

Mary Alta on the left , Sarah and Will Kerr in Illinois

Here’s another post for Throwback Thursday

My paternal grandmother, Mary Alta Kerr, born February 7, 1892 and her brother and sister. I need to do more research, dig around in a box, to get info on her siblings details. I know she called her sister “Sis”.

This is the grandmother who taught me to knit when I was little. No date on the photo. She looks to be 5 or 6? Maybe 1900-1901?

Mary Alta Kerr Hendricks passed March 13,1979 and is buried in Morrisonville, Illinois.