Showing posts with label family. Show all posts
Showing posts with label family. Show all posts

Tuesday, June 7, 2011

GRANDMOM'S BIRTHDAY

Today is my grandmother's (mother's mother) birthday.  If she were alive she would be 107 today.  She died in 1969.  I was a young teen, so didn't really get to know her the way I wish I could have.

Here is a rare picture.  I'm the only one in the family that has this picture.  I want to make copies for my brothers and sister so I took a digital picture of it.  If you click on the picture it will get bigger and you can see it better.



They are (from left to right) my great-great grandmother Elizabeth Barrett, my great-great-great grandmother Susan Kenny, my great-grandmother, Gertrude MacElroy and my grandmother Sylvia MacElroy (later Evans).  By looking at this picture I imagine my grandmother was about 4 or 5 years old, so it was probably taken around 1908 or 1909.  I know it was in the backyard of a house in the neighborhood I live in now.  Probably just a few blocks from my house.

I have been researching my family history and it's really fascinating finding out things about these people.  And who has a picture of four generations of their ancestors?  This is a real gem.

So happy birthday, Grandmom.  I wish I had known you better.