While on our trip to visit family this summer I was able to find some boxes of old family photos and memorabilia that I had not seen before. I have been spending quite a bit of time going through the items lately, and find myself wishing my parents were still here to tell me the significance of the things I am looking at.
Until I can get back into the groove of posting I have decided to post a couple of the photos I have found that relate to my blog. This photo, taken in 1899, stood out among the papers I was going through :
This second photo is also particularly interesting to me:
It is an old newspaper clipping that shows my Grandmother's Uncle (her father's brother) and his children on their Oklahoma Territory claim near present day Cheyenne in the year 1898 - the year my Grandmother arrived. You can make out their dugout rooftops in the distance. My Grandmother grew up on a nearby farm, so this picture helps me envision what her life may have been like while living "underground".
3 comments:
Mary, so nice to have you back posting. The dugout life is a hard one for me to imagine, particularly hard for the women who would be inside more of the day.
I've missed you too.
This is one stern looking family. I think that is the type of person that made a trip like theirs successful.
Pioneering is not for the faint of heart. I cannot begin to imagine what living in a dugout would feel like. I've saw one on a trip through the badlands and the Rockies. It was pretty small so your familie's was either bigger or they lived very close together.
What a beautiful family picture! Your great-grandmother looks tired, life must have been hard for her. Did all the children make it into adulthood?
I did't know people where still living in a dugout in the US so recently (I know the first settlers on Manhattan lived that way in the early 1600s, but I didn't know this still happened in the early 1900s).
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