Me and the Past

Wednesday I took the day off from 

work. Going to work Thursday and 

Friday (not my normal day). Friday

will be the last day of one of our

photographers so I am going in 

to work then go with the girls

out to lunch to say goodbye. 

I needed to run in the Dollar

Store to pick something up

and I saw the cutest winter

hat, that of course I had to 

put on.

I love when I am in this sort of

mood when shopping. I have been

known to do silly things....

I saw that, I saw your mouth drop

open at that comment!! haha

Anyway, after my day yesterday 

with the memories and crying

spells and after locating the 

pics of my daughter in her

ballet outfits, I proceeded

to look through some pics.

I had stuck this in my pics

years ago when mom gave

it to me.

Now I don't know about the size

of babies heads but I would say

that 12.5 is good! Nice size

for covering this

awesome brian.

haha

I kept digging in the pics.

This is a copy of an old

pic. Left to right is my

great aunt Etta. Sweet and

soft spoken. Next to her is

her sister, great aunt Gusta.

Gusta worked in the gardens

and always looked so tan.

Where Etta never left the

house without a bonnet or

umbrella over her head.

These two never married.

Last but surely not least is 

my great grandma, Margaret Jane.

Sweet and kind. The only

one that married. She had

four boys. Her husband died

in his early 30's from a ruptured

appendix. She raised those boys

alone. 

I am not sure of the order of

the boys but I know that it is

in my mom's family history. 

But there was my granddaddy, 

Horace and his brothers, Paul,

Tom and William. I will post more

history on those boys later.

Next pic is my great granny again with

my great aunt Myrtice, who in her own

right was an amazing woman. She lost

her husband, Tom, to a freak accident.

Although Myrtice was my great granny's

daughter in law, you would have thought

she was a true daughter. G-granny lived

a few blocks away from Myrtice but 

Myrtice looked after G-granny and her

two sisters. She took great care of them.

Here is another copy of an older

pic that mom gave me. This is 

my mom, the oldest girl and her

sister Carolyn. We lost Carolyn in 

2011. That would be my granny on 

the porch and she is probably holding

mom's sister Alice. We lost Alice back yrs

ago also. Lost my granny when I was pregnant

with my son, over 32 yrs ago.

Wow....this next pic is like looking at

my youngest brother Mark. 

This is our mom at 15.

I love this pic. My mom as a small child.

Yet another of mom with her

cousin Steve. I can't remember

if I ever met Steve.

Now you know older pics

can give you a creepy feeling 

esp cause they never smiled.

But this below is a copy of

my great, great granddaddy,

Ruben Kelly, Mattie, Gusta 

and Etta's dad.

Talk about the history....WOW.

Many, many, many years ago my brother

gave my mom a computer. I was shocked

at how well she took to it and surprised that

she was excited about it. You see, my mom 

as she got older was not fond of change. 

She did not want a cell phone and in 

her words, " I have lived all these yrs

without one and I don't need it now"!

I felt that would be her thoughts on 

the computer but it did come along

before the cell...a long time before. 

Mom got on Ancessory.com and 

BAM she was off. She ordered 

Birth Cert., Marriage Cerf. and 

Death Cert., She had my great 

granny's family (Rubens) traced

back to the 1700's. By marriage

we are actually related to James K Polk. 

In the past couple of years she

started printing off that info.

There is some at her house

that will be coming to mine but

she had one whole thing put

together and she had given it

to my older brother Ray, to 

make copies and get them

to Mark and I. Can't wait for 

that. 

Sorry if I bored you....but

I hope you enjoyed this post.