grandmother – Page 3 – Ruth E. Hendricks

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.

This is a photo of my grandmothers recipe box. This is a poem about bread, glued in the lid given to my grandmother by Ella Beyer. She was my godmother and I was given Ella as my middle name.

My grandmother on the right, the one who taught me to knit.

1973 photograph of me in the middle, my grandmother on the right and Aunt Vesta Kent on the left. Morrisonville, Illinois.

Great grandson Shawn Hendricks posted a photo of this tag found on his father’s (John)Afghan

Morrisonville City Cemetery
Morrisonville, Illinois

February 6, 2022February 7, 2022 by Ruth Categories: Family, PhotographyTags: 1892, afghans, ancestors, birthday, bread making, grandmother, Illinois, knitting, photography, postaday, quilt, quilting, Recipe box 27 Comments

Class of 1906

My maternal grandmother Charlotte Rowley- Rockford High School, Rockford, Illinois. She married in 1908. Had children in 1910, 1912, 1914.

January 26, 2022 by Ruth Categories: Photography, Throwback ThursdayTags: 1906, class picture, football team, grandmother, photography, postaday, Rockford High School, Rockford Illinois, Throwback Thursday, yearbook 7 Comments

From my Grandmother’s Album

“The Eternal Indian, sometimes called the Black Hawk Statue (dedicated in 1911), is a 48-foot sculpture by Lorado Taft located in Lowden State Park, near the city of Oregon, Illinois.”

November 3, 2021 by Ruth Categories: Photography, sculptureTags: family, grandmother, photo album, photography, postaday, sculpture, statue, vintage 8 Comments

Vacation in the ‘20s

A hundred years ago.

June 17, 2021 by Ruth Categories: Photography, Throwback ThursdayTags: bathing costume, grandmother, grandmother’s album, photography, postaday, Throwback Thursday, vacation, vintage 4 Comments

Illinois, Circa 1924, Before They Lost the Farm

My father’s parents Alta (b.1895) on left and Floyd (b.1892) on the right in overalls with the pipe in his mouth, My father’s younger brother Alan (b. 1916) along with Forrest and Martha (don’t know who they are) and my grandmother’s sister, Sis. Farmersville, Illinois.

A Photo with names written on the back

What can we tell from a family photo album? I wonder who took the picture?

May 26, 2021May 26, 2021 by Ruth Categories: Photography, Throwback ThursdayTags: 1924, ancestors, family, family photos, farm, grandfather, grandmother, Illinois, photography, postaday, Throwback Thursday, vintage 3 Comments

My Grandmother and the Chickens

My Grandmother Hendricks with the Chickens Lincoln Illinois

(In one of those awful sticky pages photo albums, the type that ruin the photographs)-

May 19, 2021 by Ruth Categories: Photography, Throwback ThursdayTags: ancestors, chickens, family, grandmother, Illinois, photography, postaday, Throwback Thursday 3 Comments

One Couple Out of Four

Grandmother Charlotte third from left in dark skirt

Durand Illinois about 1916. The only people I can identify are my maternal grandparents. These two photos are next to one another in my Grandmother’s Album.

April 8, 2021 by Ruth Categories: PhotographyTags: ancestors, antique, Durand Illinois, grandmother, Grandmothers’s Album, photography, postaday, Relatives, Throwback Thursday, vintage 3 Comments

Vintage Embroidery by my Grandmother

My father’s mother, the one who taught me to knit, stitched this saying I have on my wall.

Being covered in glass, the photo is tricky.

March 9, 2021 by Ruth Categories: PhotographyTags: antique, embroidery, friendship, grandmother, photography, postaday, vintage 15 Comments

Bread Making- Guest Blog

Kristin sent these photos of her husband making bread.
Rick is really good at bread making.
He’s okay with the photos being posted.

I added the first photo of my grandmother’s ode to bread and the last photo of Rick kneading his famous and delicious bread in 2016.

This is a photo of my grandmothers recipe box. there’s a is a poem about bread, glued in the lid. Ella Beyer was my godmother and I was given Ella as my middle name .

A clip of Rick kneading bread from a video I took in 2016

March 7, 2021 by Ruth Categories: Baking, PhotographyTags: baking, bread, bread making, dough, dough rising, friend, grandmother, Guest blog., loaves, Recipe box, yeast 11 Comments

Our Grandmother Made This

My sister sent me this photo of the doily our paternal grandmother made. It sits on a chair at my sister’s home. Years ago, I’d stitched it onto the solid fabric pillow.

It’s a good way to display an old fashioned hand crocheted doily. The shape suggests it was to protect the chair back where your head would rest.

Certainly we’ve spent a lot of time at home this past year.

February 17, 2021 by Ruth Categories: PhotographyTags: crochet, doily, family, grandmother, guest blog, home sweet home, NYC, photography, pillow, postaday 16 Comments

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