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HappyWarrior  Feb 12, 2016 • 8:36:52am
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HappyWarrior  Feb 12, 2016 • 8:38:45am

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A little background info too. The above photo is one I grew up seeing my entire life. I knew about my great great grandfather being a Civil War veteran but I did not know about him being murdered.

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KerFuFFler  Feb 12, 2016 • 9:27:52am

re: #2 HappyWarrior

Wow! Very interesting that they re-enacted that picture——-and hey, having a murder in the family is pretty intriguing too.

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Decatur Deb  Feb 12, 2016 • 9:36:06am

Checking the maps, I lived in tenements about 7 and 10 blocks from the shop, under what is now the I-279 complex

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KerFuFFler  Feb 12, 2016 • 9:41:19am

So here is my grandmother’s great grandmother or my great great great grandmother——-do I have that right? It would have been taken in the late 1840’s. I’m fascinated to see an ancestor of mine who was all grown up way before the civil war even broke out. Just look at her clothing and hairstyle.

Great great great grandmother, late 1840’s
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KerFuFFler  Feb 12, 2016 • 9:45:38am

And here is my grandmother in the early 1920’s. Check out the bobbed hair! She’s the one who supported the resistance to Franco in the 1930’s.

My Grandmother early to mid 1920’s
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HappyWarrior  Feb 12, 2016 • 10:35:10am

re: #3 KerFuFFler

Wow! Very interesting that they re-enacted that picture——-and hey, having a murder in the family is pretty intriguing too.

When I visited Pittsburgh a few years back with my Dad and brothers, we sort of did too. Yeah the murder bit is fascinating. I grew up seeing that photo at my dad’s folks place all the time so I was familiar with it but the murder was just a shocker. I’ve talked about him before- he’s my great great grandpa who pretty much off the boat went in to the Union Army. I have a picture of his wife that I’ll upload in a bit too.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 12, 2016 • 10:36:04am

re: #6 KerFuFFler

And here is my grandmother in the early 1920’s. Check out the bobbed hair! She’s the one who supported the resistance to Franco in the 1930’s.

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There’s a picture of my Dad’s mom and her sister where they have that flapper look. I wish I knew where it was because I think the Pittsburgh skyline is near and DD knows Pittsburgh far better than I do since I’ve never actually lived there.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 12, 2016 • 10:37:56am

re: #4 Decatur Deb

Checking the maps, I lived in tenements about 7 and 10 blocks from the shop, under what is now the I-279 complex

Does Hamlin Street or Lawrenceville mean anything to you? That’s where my Irish relations lived in Pittsburgh. My Dad’s mom grew up there which and I checked it yesterday was not far from what became Three Rivers Stadium. I’ve got tons of relatives on that side buried in the old St. Mary’s Cemetery.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 12, 2016 • 10:39:17am

re: #5 KerFuFFler

So here is my grandmother’s great grandmother or my great great great grandmother——-do I have that right? It would have been taken in the late 1840’s. I’m fascinated to see an ancestor of mine who was all grown up way before the civil war even broke out. Just look at her clothing and hairstyle.

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Both would be right. Man that just astounds me to think about because nearly all my great great great grandparents were foreign born and I imagine during that time yours sat for her photograph, photography hadn’t even been introduced to most of the places where they lived.

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Big Beautiful Door  Feb 12, 2016 • 10:51:23am

re: #6 KerFuFFler

And here is my grandmother in the early 1920’s. Check out the bobbed hair! She’s the one who supported the resistance to Franco in the 1930’s.

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Your grandmother was hot!

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KerFuFFler  Feb 12, 2016 • 11:10:03am

Here’s a pic of my dad looking at a book with his little brother around 1927. Those little shoes look so uncomfortable! This picture wrings my heart I guess because it reminds me of when my two sons were little kids. Sure, we all “know” that we start out young, grow old and die but having lost my dad (almost 93 years old) this past year, seeing a picture of him where he looked like my little kids once did makes it all too real.

My dad and uncle 1927
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Decatur Deb  Feb 12, 2016 • 11:11:29am

re: #9 HappyWarrior

Does Hamlin Street or Lawrenceville mean anything to you? That’s where my Irish relations lived in Pittsburgh. My Dad’s mom grew up there which and I checked it yesterday was not far from what became Three Rivers Stadium. I’ve got tons of relatives on that side buried in the old St. Mary’s Cemetery.

Vaguely remember a Hamlin Street, but it’s one of those we didn’t live on (we had trouble paying rent). Lawrenceville is inside the Triangle, directly across the Alleghany from the North Side, a bit upstream from the three bridges now named for Clemente, Warhol, and Rachael Carson. It was industrial working class in the 50s, fashionably regentrified now.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 12, 2016 • 11:37:18am

re: #13 Decatur Deb

Vaguely remember a Hamlin Street, but it’s one of those we didn’t live on (we had trouble paying rent). Lawrenceville is inside the Triangle, directly across the Alleghany from the North Side, a bit upstream from the three bridges now named for Clemente, Warhol, and Rachael Carson. It was industrial working class in the 50s, fashionably regentrified now.

Gotcha. Yeah I figured Lawrenceville was industrial working class. My great great grandpa was an iron pudler. Not sure what company but I have copes of him in directories going back to the early 1880’s. Family lore is that his son in law, my nana’s father was an engineer for the first skyscraper in Pittsburgh. Not sure how true that is, I know he was an elevator operator at one opint though for the Frick Building. If you’ve ever heard of the name Keown though. Those are my relations. There’s a Keown Station in Ross. My great great great grandparents ran a hotel there apparently.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 12, 2016 • 11:50:44am

re: #12 KerFuFFler

Here’s a pic of my dad looking at a book with his little brother around 1927. Those little shoes look so uncomfortable! This picture wrings my heart I guess because it reminds me of when my two sons were little kids. Sure, we all “know” that we start out young, grow old and die but having lost my dad (almost 93 years old) this past year, seeing a picture of him where he looked like my little kids once did makes it all too real.

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I’ve got a picture of my dad’s dad and his brother as kids. I’d share it but it’s not part of my personal photo collection. It’s just so surreal to see since I know pretty much everyone that this man is a father, grandfather, great grandfather, and great great grandfather of and here’s him with his his big brother. It also reminded me of photos of me with my own brother and of my dad with his.

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The Vicious Babushka  Feb 12, 2016 • 12:17:40pm

Here is Zedushka’s grandfather (bearded man on the left, with umbrella) with his brother and sisters, mother (front, center) and grandmother (front, right) in Palestine in the early 1900’s. The older women are wearing head coverings similar to hijab. They belonged to the Yishuv Hayashon, the old settlement of Jews in the Holy Land before the Zionist movement.

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The Vicious Babushka  Feb 12, 2016 • 12:31:24pm

re: #5 KerFuFFler

So here is my grandmother’s great grandmother or my great great great grandmother——-do I have that right? It would have been taken in the late 1840’s. I’m fascinated to see an ancestor of mine who was all grown up way before the civil war even broke out. Just look at her clothing and hairstyle.

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Those plaid fabrics were very popular in early Victorian times. You can’t tell from the B&W photo how colorful they actually were. Here is a plaid gown from the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 12, 2016 • 12:41:32pm

re: #16 The Vicious Babushka

Here is Zedushka’s grandfather (bearded man on the left, with umbrella) with his brother and sisters, mother (front, center) and grandmother (front, right) in Palestine in the early 1900’s. The older women are wearing head coverings similar to hijab. They belonged to the Yishuv Hayashon, the old settlement of Jews in the Holy Land before the Zionist movement.

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I remember my grandfather’s cousin sending a photo of their grandmother and she had the traditional head covering too. I was quite surprised that a photo of her existed. Unfortunately I have no idea where it is.

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CleverToad  Feb 12, 2016 • 12:43:23pm

Ooh, this is fun! Thanks, HW, for letting us play. I love all these pics and the stories attached.

This is the great-aunt I was named for, standing with her husband in front of my grandparent’s homestead near Choteau, Montana. The homestead doubled as the Breeston post office from Aug 1919 to Oct 1920 — the official designation let my Grandpa Brees pick up his neighbors’ mail so they wouldn’t have to all make separate trips into town.

Breeston, Montana c. 1919
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HappyWarrior  Feb 12, 2016 • 12:45:03pm

re: #19 CleverToad

Ooh, this is fun! Thanks, HW, for letting us play.

This is the great-aunt I was named for, standing with her husband in front of my grandparent’s homestead near Choteau, Montana. The homestead doubled as the Breeston post office from Aug 1919 to Oct 1920 — the official designation let my Grandpa Brees pick up his neighbors’ mail so they wouldn’t have to all make separate trips into town.

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Not a problem. What I like to do is think about my family’s role in the greater history that was happening.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 12, 2016 • 12:46:17pm

My mom’s maternal grandpaernts on their wedding dale. 1922.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 12, 2016 • 12:47:56pm

Not the best photo but my dad’s maternal grandparents. I think these are allow wedding photos.

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CleverToad  Feb 12, 2016 • 12:50:44pm

re: #12 KerFuFFler

Here’s a pic of my dad looking at a book with his little brother around 1927. Those little shoes look so uncomfortable! This picture wrings my heart I guess because it reminds me of when my two sons were little kids. Sure, we all “know” that we start out young, grow old and die but having lost my dad (almost 93 years old) this past year, seeing a picture of him where he looked like my little kids once did makes it all too real.

My mom, age 3 in 1927, with the carefully-arranged rag curls (I’m sure they didn’t last much past the photo session). I’m treasuring all the time I have left with her.

Atlanta Genevieve, age 3
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jaunte  Feb 12, 2016 • 12:57:13pm

My grandfather (second from the last in line) and father (just behind the cowboy/guide) taking the mule ride down into the Grand Canyon; part of a road-trip across the western states in 1930. Granddad drove his Willys-Knight from St. Louis down through Texas and New Mexico, through Arizona and California, up to Oregon, then back home. Most of the trip was on dirt roads.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 12, 2016 • 12:57:15pm

Not the best photo since it comes from a xerox but my grandmother and her three sisters while visiting their brother at the seminary. I never knew any of her sisters but I’ve heard stories about how they were all characters in some way.Tough women too. Their mother the women in my 22 died when they were pretty young so they were raised by a great aunt and their father.

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wrenchwench  Feb 12, 2016 • 1:05:02pm
One of these barefoot kids is my grandfather.

Wisconsin.

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KerFuFFler  Feb 12, 2016 • 1:06:44pm

re: #23 CleverToad

My mom, age 3 in 1927, with the carefully-arranged rag curls (I’m sure they didn’t last much past the photo session). I’m treasuring all the time I have left with her.

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Looks like she could have given Shirley Temple some stiff competition with those ringlets!

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KerFuFFler  Feb 12, 2016 • 1:22:50pm

Here is my dad in Japan shortly after the war ended. He enjoyed learning about the culture and made friends with many Japanese people——something that many in the military could not bring themselves to do at that point.

Dad in Japan appreciating Japanese culture

Because he spoke Japanese well, and even though he was a very junior officer at that time he was given an important assignment helping coordinate the repatriation of the Japanese army from the Asian continent. At the end of his life he felt like that assignment was his most important accomplishment——-the remaining 1000’s of soldiers would have been slaughtered by the Soviets and assisting in their repatriation was important to establishing trust and cooperation needed to turn a former enemy into an ally.

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KerFuFFler  Feb 12, 2016 • 1:29:59pm

re: #19 CleverToad

Love the story about the post office——-making life more practical for people who lived far from town!

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Decatur Deb  Feb 12, 2016 • 1:55:08pm

re: #25 HappyWarrior

What seminary?

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HappyWarrior  Feb 12, 2016 • 2:18:14pm

re: #30 Decatur Deb

What seminary?

it was in Connecticut. Don’t know the name unfortunately.

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Decatur Deb  Feb 12, 2016 • 2:49:16pm

re: #31 HappyWarrior

it was in Connecticut. Don’t know the name unfortunately.

Ah. Not mine (North of Pittsburgh) then.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 12, 2016 • 3:22:19pm

re: #32 Decatur Deb

Ah. Not mine (North of Pittsburgh) then.

Yeah. I think he got his degree at Dusquene though. Ended up being an Army chaplain during the Bulge.

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Decatur Deb  Feb 12, 2016 • 3:30:25pm

re: #33 HappyWarrior

Yeah. I think he got his degree at Dusquene though. Ended up being an Army chaplain during the Bulge.

Heh. We lived on the Bluff, a couple hundred yards from 1940s Duquesne. The spot is under one of their parking lots now.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Feb 14, 2016 • 10:21:58pm

Nice thread here. I’ll upload some photos when I get to my computer this evening.


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