Henry & Henrietta Stebbins, Dad and Aunt Tee

I’m back to scanning in old family photos and came across this really nice photo of Great Grandpa Henry Stebbins, Great Grandmother Henrietta Stebbins, my Dad as a little boy, and Aunt Tee – Helen Theona Fry – as a little girl.

I don’t know where this photo was taken, but I think it’s really nice.

 

One of the Many Places my Great Grandmother lived

My Great Grandmother Henrietta Savage Stebbins Goodrich lived with a lady named Myrtle Hunt in Syracuse, NY for a period of time. Myrtle Hunt was one of the cheeriest people I have ever known. Her house wasn’t that big, but I remember being intrigued with her front porch. Check it out!

And here’s a side view of the porch:

I just found out the other day that after my Mom was first married and before the kids started coming along, she used to visit Great Grammie (Dad’s Grandmother). Mom said she was really nice to her, and Great Grammie would go about doing her work while my Mom was visiting with her. After she moved from Myrtle’s home, she went to live with my Grandmother for a while. Here she is visiting at my parents’ home at Christmas time in 1968:

I really like this photo because it is one of the only photos we have of her where she is smiling. Plus it is the house I grew up in, and the view from the picture windows was phenomenal! Oh, and you can see the profile view of Myrtle Hunt as she is sitting in the chair.

After she moved out from her daughter’s home, she then moved to Vermont to live with her son, my Great Uncle Martin Stebbins. This is where she died at the old age of 91.

 

Grammie Fry and my Mom identifying old photos

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.

 

Engagement and Marriage of Helen Stebbins & Dalph Fry

The other day I mentioned that Grammie Perry and Grammie Fry had the exact same Wedding Album. Today I’m posting the Marriage Certificate page from Grammie Fry’s Wedding Album, along with her official Marriage Certificate, Wedding announcment, and engagement announcement. Here’s the page from the Wedding Album showing they were married in Rochester, PA on January 14, 1928:

Here’s the official Marriage Certificate:

Here’s a card from Rev. E. G. Lusk:

Here’s the Announcement of their Wedding:

Here’s their Engagement Announcement dated August 1, 1927 folded together:

And opened up:

 

Great Grandpa Henry Stebbins

With Henrietta’s photo albums still fresh on my mind, I thought I would post a couple of really nice photos of Great Grandpa Henry Stebbins with his daughter, my Grandmother, Helen Marion Stebbins Fry:

This one was taken at Watkins Glen in 1914:

I remember Grammie Fry saying that you could twist her hair around a finger and it would stay in a ringlet.

 

Helen Stebbins Fry

Here's another photo I found in Henrietta's Red Album. This one is of Grammie Helen Stebbins Fry. There isn't a date on the photo, so I'm not sure when and where it was taken. Maybe it was taken when she was at Eastern Nazarene College.

Much more on Grammie later on!