Sentimental Sunday: Dad, a Man of Style
Posted by Liv | Filed under Sentimental Sunday
It’s Sentimental Sunday at geneabloggers.com and this daily blogging prompt allows genealogy bloggers a chance to focus on a sentimental story or memory about an ancestor, or a wonderful family tradition. Today is Father’s Day 2012 and my fondest memories this weekend have been about my father and his smooth swag and style that were captured [...]
Tags: 1940s, family photos, Father's Day 2012, fedora, Frank Sinatra, Lloyd Boston, mens fashions, Quincy Jones, Samuel L. Jackson, straight leg, wide-trousers, zoot suits
Sentimental Sunday: Carrie Blanton
Posted by Liv | Filed under Blanton, Chapple, Sentimental Sunday, Surname
It’s Sentimental Sunday at geneabloggers.com and this daily blogging prompt allows genealogy bloggers a chance to focus on a sentimental story or memory about an ancestor, or a wonderful family tradition. Carrie Blanton was born February 28, 1883 in Eagle Lake, Colorado County, Texas to Carey and Alice Bailey Blanton. Like her parents and eleven [...]
Tags: 5th ward, blanton, chapple, cook, eagle lake, family history, family photo, houston, laundress, maternal great-grandmother, servant, surname, texas
Sentimental Sunday: Joseph Chapple
Posted by Liv | Filed under Chapple, Sentimental Sunday, Surname
t’s Sentimental Sunday at geneabloggers.com and this daily blogging prompt allows genealogy bloggers a chance to focus on a sentimental story or memory about an ancestor, or a wonderful family tradition. I had the pleasure of visually introducing my maternal grandfather, Joseph Chapple, to the World Wide Web community on Wordless Wednesday, February 16, 2011. [...]
Tags: 5th ward, blacksmith, chapple, creosote works, family history, family photo, freedman's town, houston, maternal grandfather, surname
