Share Ancestor Pictures
Brookwood
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Smitty's post gave me this idea and I didn't want to change the coarse of his thread. So, I will share a few of the pic's I have of some out of the tree I fell out of. All lived in or near Traverse City, Michigan back when photos were taken.
Great, Great, Great Grandparents, The Filmore's. Millard Filmore, one of the nations Presidents is an ancestor. But I sure aint bragging! 😁 Such a HAPPY couple! 😁
My Great, Great, Grandparents. The Ransom's. Granny Ransom had a sense of humor that she passed on to me. So I have been told. Gone before my time as she passed in 1931.
Two of the Ransom boys out on a joy ride.
The whole Ransom family. My Great Grandmother is standing in the back, third on the left with the diamond pattern on her blouse. I remember a few of these great great uncles and my aunt Ada pictured on the right. She didn't have any teeth when I knew her but she could eat the meat off the bones of any steak left in front of her! 😁
A few of the family out in front of the old farm house. This farm became the towns first airport and then when the new airport was built, the land became one of the city's largest cemetery's. A lot of my family is buried there including my parents, and grandparents.
Anyhow, being a slow day here on the forums, thought I'd try to start something. Please share your family photos! I just love history!
Comments
Nice photos and story
Thank you for sharing
I have what few I have on a flash drive will have to find it
Also a comment a lot of old photos the people look unhappy or no emotion
A lot had to do with the cameras you had to sit still and not move to give the film a chance to catch the image and trying to hold a smile that long made it difficult to hold still so most all old photos have that frown or sad look
I enjoy on you tube there is several sites I watch I am sure many more but they post old photos out of the past even short movie clips from way back
Looks like your 3rd great grand father was a member of the GAR..
Cool pictures.
Wish I had the know how on how to post photos. Have a great one of my grandmother standing in front of a corral somewhere in the Dakotas with six shooters on her hip.
I don't have any.....over the years most of my family has been pretty ugly so we were always the ones taking the picture !! 😑
I think most of my ancestors were moonshiners,horse thieves and used car salesmen.None of which would stand still long enough for a photo.
I know my ancestors were shiners, they came from Wilkes county NC.
Had one that made shine and the other was sheriff deputy. One made it the other busted up stills.
my g. grandfather enlisted for the civil war at 16, when they got to where the fighting was, they found out he was underage, so they made him the 'company cattle thief............which explains a lot of the following family
Speaking of stills there's remanences of an old still on my property behind my house next to the creek. It's listed on my deed to the property as being there.
You can see the ax marks in it where it was evidently found by the law and destroyed.
Don
this was my dad his parents and sisters beside his only brother. dad was young but I ask several times he never told or maybe knew ? what his brother died from
but as I said photos were seldom taken deaths weddings or special occasions was about it
thes are not in any order and trying to get the hang of posting photos again
only have a few old ones
this was dads grand parents again when I would ask he always said grandpa was a mean old man nothing more no matter how many times I ask it was the same answer my whole life
this was my grandpa in WWI the only photo we know of when he was in the military . dad told me there house burned down when he was a kid lost every thing this is the photo I help my dad track down before cancer took him
this was my dad ( on the left 😀 ) and his dad some time in the early 1970"s
this was dad when he was about 14 he told me
mom and dad (Obvious 1956 ) they were married in 1955
moms side of our family only a few photos also
my grand ma and grand pa and aunt on moms side the little girl was my aunt ( she was a WAC later on in life ) she moved to CA> late 1950's the photos came from a cousin all the writing is from my aunt . we had no idea the phots existed until my aunt passed away my grand ma was 4'11 maybe grand pa was short also like me . but they said he was as stong as a bull and short tempered ( I think I got all those traits from him )
this was moms grand parents I know noting about them sadly the young boy was one of my uncles and taught me a lot about working on cars
old photo of my grand ma moms side
this was the old photo for years i though was real then many years later ( like 40 ) mom said it was just a stuffed mule out side dog patch zoo mom grand ma and me maybe 1958 or late 1957 mom was also short just over 5 feet and grand ma like I said maybe 4"11 on a good day per word of mouth my great great great mother was Cherokee it was possible as it was common way back then
Great photo's and comments D\R! Thank you for sharing!
My first lesson on the F 20 Farmall ,,,,,,, I worshipped the ground my grandparents walked on. I pestered grand dad so much he finally relented and tied me in the seat and let me harrow the plowed/disc ground ,,,,,,,, with his hat off, he was a carbon copy of Randolph Scott ,,,,,
Bill he looks dang similar with his hat on.
What that farmall would be worth to a collector now. Did it have a foot or hand clutch?
Mule
David, it had a ‘foot’ clutch. And my foot slipped off when parking in the shed, resulting in an unplanned rear door. 😫
when I was just a very young fellow my grandma (my moms mom ) stayed with us her and grand pa had divorced I was too young to really understand and never ask why even later in life
she stayed with us when I just a young kid like 6 or 7 yrs old maybe 8 but I remember she use to tell us storys of long ago even sang a lot of them it was a old way to pass along news and remember people in hard times by word of mouth or a balled
I wish I had a way to have recorded them I barley remember bits and pieces of the stories now a sad loss for me and a huge loss of all the history she had memorized and passed on .
story of a little boy falling in a well , a news paper boy freezing to death . a plantation owner being served up his baby as a dinner by a new "cook" and he shot her DRT more to it but short version . so many more sad stories of life struggles
my grand father I know had six cousins all brothers die in a coal mine cave in in Harlin this is from the internet
H~Harlan Mine Explosion 6 Brothers*
These six brothers were killed in a mine explosion in Harlan Ky. This is a heart breaking virtual. So many have lost their lives under ground. God bless them.
my grand father called me crocket ( play on my name and being from Tennessee ) every year for many years I would get a new cap gun from him up untill he passed away ( black lung got him ) mom told me I was his pick as I was the fist grand son and he was so proud , he had grand daughters by his oldest daughter but I was the first boy
so many stories but I will say all of you have fond memories of your family to keep close and keep them alive in your heat also
now thay I am getting up in age I seem to be more aware and wanting to pass along so much to my kids I have one grand son and happy as a can be for that my wife get mad but fact is sadly I feel I will be gone by the time he gets old enough to really get to know me or hear my stories
Speaking of miners. In the early 50s my Dad worked in the zinc mines in Mascot, TN. We lived in a company house that's circled in the photo. The company store was directly across the road from our house. The only injury that I can remember he received was when the battery for his light leaked acid on his rear end. 😊 Zinc mines were a lot safer than coal mines.
OK, I held back because of a member's threat to ignore someone who posted pictures from the 20"s, but here goes, anyway. These kids look they stepped out of the screen of a "Little Rascals" or "Our Gang" show. My dad, uncle, and the neighbor girl. I don't think they were fond of having their picture taken.
Then, my great great aunt before she cut her hair.
I thought that was cousin Itt. 😉
My Grandfather Deputy Sheriff Ethridge Sandridge Aaron, Albany ,Ky Clinton County Ky
Wife’s grandfather on the right.
Here is my family in Mina South Dakota in 1884. Great great grandfather David Lewis lower left. He homesteaded and got a quarter section.
That's an elegant looking young lady at the right of the photo. Was she one of your great aunts?