As I’m continuing to scan in photos (right now from Dad’s side of the family), I noticed that many of them have my Mom’s writing on the back of them. So I thanked her for her patience and taking her valuable time to do this so that I could reap the benefits. She told me that when Grammie Fry was in the hospital with cancer, Grammie had asked Mom to bring unmarked family photos so Grammie could id them for her. As Dad was working out of town, and I was living out of town, Mom was the only family member who visited Grammie everyday. This must have gone on for quite a while given the large amount of identified photos. Mom told me that Grammie’s last word to her before she slipped into incoherency was “pictures.” While the whole situation of Grammie starving to death due to colon/liver cancer saddened me to no end then and still does 23 years later this month, I am very grateful to her and my Mother for identifying and labelling all of these pictures. How many daughters-in-law do you know would spend time with their Mother-in-Law like my Mom did? Not too many these days that I know of. Now that’s sad. (Okay, I’m getting off my soapbox now).
Here’s an excellent example of what I’m talking about. These are my great-grandparents Henry and Henrietta Stebbins in 1908, their son Martin Stebbins and Grammie, Helen Stebbins, as a baby (Henry and Henrietta had just lost a daughter, Alice Stebbins, which I’ll post about later):
Henry Stebbins Family 1908 Hosted on Zooomr
Here’s the back of the photo with my Mom’s handwriting:
Henry Stebbins Family 1908 back Hosted on Zooomr
Zooomr is hosting these photos tonight as Flickr was temporarily down.
