Category: Family Photos
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Sometimes the memories we have don’t carry the history of the people that made them. I got to meet the youngest of my Great-Grandparents before she died, but it would be years before I learned her story.
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Alfred was a friendly, funny man, according to the impressions I inherited. But he is also an entry point into a deeper vein of history.
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The evidence we have suggests hard times and heavy years, but that’s the problem with not having a lot of evidence.
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Of my great-grandparents, David Clark’s biography leaves me with more questions than I can expect to answer. Maybe that’s okay.
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Another installment of the Callin families who stayed in Milton Township, Ohio, after the first generation of settlers (James and John) died.
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Great-Grandma Merle was one of the last two people on this Ahnentafel journey who I actually met. And since I’ve written about her story before, I’ll try to capture some of my memories of what she was like.
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My favorite and I went on a little getaway trip. But we’re back.
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I didn’t think I had much to add to his story, but there always seems to be more to say if you just dig down a little bit.
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Bertha and John were another couple who were clearly best friends for 50 years. Here’s how I see these funny, interesting people.
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Expanding on the story of John Q. Callin; a man who led a life too quiet to call “dynamic” but too active to call “quiet”!
