I have an incredible drive in me to sort all of my photos, so can look back over my life in chronological order and relive the very wonderful life that I have had. It would be great to think that after I am gone, someone might be interested in any of the photos that I have and would be thankful that they are in order.
A couple of days ago, I received a couple of DVD's that have some of the old photos on them. I sent my photo albums away to a place called ScanCafe and they digitalized them. They came out OK, so I am on a mission to get all photos onto the computer.
Now, I know that there will not be too many of my heirs who will want to go through all of the photos, but I am determined to write stories of my memories so someone may feel a connection to his or her past.
We are a Christian family from back farther than I remember or know about. Yes, we are Christians, but that doesn't make us boring.
This is the oldest photo that I could find quickly.
Martha "Mattie" Josephine Chappell (1888 - 1923) was my mother's mother. She had four children (Marian, Robert, Jack, Mary Virginia), but died of diabetes when my mother, the youngest was only 2 years old. My mother looked like her and I think that I did too.
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I guess even way back when, people realized that people in the photos seldom smiled. I heard that the reason for that is that the shutter speed was so slow on the cameras that one just had to "freeze".
This is Finis as a child, along with his sisters Bertha Olive Banner Smith 1996-1986 (married George Smith and had no children) and Elsye Banner (married Jack and had one child, Richard)
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Their parents were Mary Belle Smart (a nicer woman was never known), and George Grant Banner who up and left her.
