I was going through some old photo albums and thought it would be fun to share some old pictures. This is my mom and her dad when she was a little kid at Christmas time.
My grandpa holding my mom when she was a baby. The little boy is my uncle Jack.
This is my grandpa and his mother, so my great grandma.
This is my great grandparents. The same lady as the above picture. They were my maternal grandpa's parents. This man, my great grandpa, Lewis Casper Sherman was a Baptist Minister. His obituary is below.
I found my great grandfathers obituary in one of the photo albums. It says,
Rev. Sherman, 69 Dies Following Sudden Illness.
The Rev. Lewis Casper Sherman, 69 of Rush died at 4:45Pm of a sudden illness.
Rev. Sherman, 69 Dies Following Sudden Illness.
The Rev. Lewis Casper Sherman, 69 of Rush died at 4:45Pm of a sudden illness.
The Rev. Mr Sherman, was born December 25th, 1896 in Morgan county, a son of Paris Sherman of Portsmouth o..and the late Julie Hamilton Sherman. He was a minister and a farmer and a member of the Enterprise Baptist church.
And then it goes on to list his family.
I thought it was very neat that even through I never met him, I have all of these pictures of him and his newspaper obituary that I'm sure my grandfather put in this photo album to remember his father. I inherited all of my moms photo albums when she passed away in 2011.
This is my grandpa and his mother (Same lady from the other pictures). They are holding my mom when she was a baby.
I love looking back at all the old black and white old pictures I have of family members.
I've always been the keeper of the pictures in my family. I have a lot of old photo albums. Now pretty much everything is digital but I still get some pictures printed out so keep in the photo albums that my daughter gets to have when I'm gone.
Do you have old photo albums?
Wow. I never knew any relatives outside my immediate family and have never ever seen photographs of any of them. You are lucky.
ReplyDeleteI have lots of family and went to Ohio and West Virginia to meet with some of my grandparents siblings.
DeleteYour great-grandfather was a minister! Cool you have the obituary still. I don't have too many old photos from my side, but my wife is the keeper of the photos on her side.
ReplyDeleteMy grandpa used to talk about his dad all the time. When I went to church some Sundays with my grandpa the Reverend would let him get up and preach to the congregation sometimes.
DeleteMy mum has old albums. And yeah most is digital now but I make this album online every year of my kid and they send it to me. Not like the old school ones
ReplyDeleteOh yeah I did that for my daughter for my grandson one year.
DeleteOld photographs are a treasure trove of memories. It's fun to look back at fashions and vehicles.
ReplyDeleteOh definitely.
DeleteIt's wonderful to be able to look back at these photos and actually know who your relatives were. I like seeing the man wearing the fedora, because that's exactly how my father dressed his entire life until he died he always had a hat. These were fun to look at thanks for sharing.
ReplyDeleteMy grandpa had a couple of hats he wore when I was a kid.
Deletebeautiful! I love looking through old photos and sometimes knowing who is in them (friends of family??) What a treasure!
ReplyDeleteI do too. Thankfully my mom wrote on the back of most of the pictures I inherited from her.
DeleteI have a few old photos from one or two generations back, not enough to fill a photo album though. It's great you have so many!
ReplyDeleteI think I have 12 photo albums. I got pictures from my parents and my grandparents when they all passed away..
DeleteAs my dad was an only child, I got all his family photos. I’ve been slowly sorting through everything. I really enjoyed yours, Mary. You had some Ohio connections! I wonder if your great grandfather’s church is still there?
ReplyDeleteI don't know if the church is still there. I had a lot of family in Kentucky, Ohio and West Virginia.
DeleteI love looking at old pictures. You are so lucky to have so many of your mom when she was young. We have maybe 2 baby pictures of my mother and none of my father (he was born in Germany during WWII).
ReplyDeleteSorry to hear that. I love all the old pictures I have.
DeleteHubby's great aunt and uncle never had children. She was the last to pass away, and he inherited a couple of tubs of old photos, most of them of unidentifiable people.
ReplyDeleteI always write the names of people on all my pictures before I put them in albums so whoever gets them in the future knows who they were.
DeleteWonderful photos to treasure
ReplyDeleteThank you.
DeleteSo cool to see even back to your great-great grandparents. I love old photographs, too. My mom's the keeper of those at the present, but I have a few copies I was given for a family history project.
ReplyDeleteThat's very cool. My daughter gets excited looking through all my old pictures. She'll inherit all the pictures when I'm gone.
DeleteThank you for sharing your family with us, Mary aloha
ReplyDeleteYou're welcome.
DeleteThese old family photos are priceless. Thanks for sharing.
ReplyDeleteYes they are. I'm so glad I have them.
DeleteI LOVE Old Photos, Thanks for the Sharing of yours, it's great that you have them. Alas, both of my Parents didn't own a Camera nor did their Parents, so few Photos exist of the Ancestors like you are Blessed to have. I often wonder what some of my Relatives looked like, where they lived and what those communities looked like? I like looking at the people in the Photos AND the backgrounds of those Eras. The Architecture, the Decor of their Homes, how some locations might have changed from way back then.
ReplyDeleteI love looking at the old pictures and seeing the old cars and how they dressed.
DeleteSo cool! We have a wall in our home with old photos. We tried to have one of each parent, grandparent, and great grandparent.
ReplyDeleteThat's such a good idea. I love that.
DeletePeople did not take photos much back in the old days here, even I have just a few sets of photos from my childhood.
ReplyDeleteOh that's sad.
DeleteWonderful family photos to have ~ a treasure ~
ReplyDeleteWishing you good health, laughter and love in your days,
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Thank you.
DeleteMy brother has claimed all the family photos. We give them to him as he has digitized just about everything. There was a whole issue with my brother wanting the photos from our grandparents that our father had. (A couple weeks ago.) We mailed them out to him.
ReplyDeleteI usually inherit all the pictures when a family member passes away.
DeleteThese are very special Mary ... lovely.
ReplyDeleteAll the best Jan
Thank you.
DeleteThose are fun to see. I have tons of old photos from way back too. I wish they were more organized.
ReplyDeleteMine are just placed in photo albums.
DeleteSo nice that you have this history. I wish I had the old family photos. My father's wife, my stepmother now has them. My dad is still alive, but I feel like I'll never see them again and it's not her family history in them.
ReplyDeleteYou can't ask your dad for them?
DeleteIt is interesting seeing the old photos! I'm adopted. It's a short lineage!
ReplyDeleteThank you.
DeleteI was fortunate enough to have a picture of my great-grandmother when she was just a little girl due to finding my dad's second cousin
ReplyDeleteOh that's very cool.
DeleteI love old photos. I think it would take me a good three to six months to go though mine. I have trunk full of them.
ReplyDeleteMy mom had some of hers in a trunk too. I put them all in albums.
DeleteYu are lucky to have these lovely photos of your past family. I have one or two older photos.
ReplyDeleteThank you.
DeleteThat's pretty neat you have so many old pictures of your family and can see relatives you never met this way. I don't think I have any old pictures except from a photo book from when I was a baby.
ReplyDeleteI love seeing old photos.
DeleteI'm the keeper of the pictures in my family, too. I also love looking at the photos and hearing the stories.
ReplyDeleteThat's very cool.
DeleteNeat photos and insight into your grandfather. I have boxes of photos. Lately (as in my last post), I've been copying and digitalizing slides.
ReplyDeleteI need a good copier to do that with mine. Taking pictures of the pictures isn't a great way to do it. They are blurry at times.
DeleteThis is so cool. I love it.
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DeleteThank you for sharing! I have a drawer and boxes full of photos. I always meant to put them in albums but never make the time for it. And now most of the photos sit on my phone and hard drive. It's sad.
ReplyDeleteI have a lot of my laptop that I get prints taken of once a year.
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