Nels and Anna Anderson’s Farm
November 10, 2023 No Comments
The first image is a photograph, from my great-grandmotherโs photo album, taken in 1926 at Nels and Anna Andersonโs farm, located in section 14 of Bertha township, one mile southeast of Bertha, Minnesota. My great-grandaunt Anna (fourth from the left) was the second of five children, born to Carl and Mathilda Swenson on April 29, […]
Benjamin Maynard, Civil War Veteran
November 4, 2023 No Comments
My Dad and I visited ๐๐๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ด๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ฒ๐ป ๐๐ฒ๐บ๐ฒ๐๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ where more than twenty cousins from my paternal grandmotherโs side are buried. There was a directory and map at the entrance which made it easy for us to find their graves. ๐๐ฒ๐ป๐ท๐ฎ๐บ๐ถ๐ป ๐ ๐ฎ๐๐ป๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ฑ was a Civil War veteran who fought for the North. He enlisted in the Union […]
Sadie Crider
November 1, 2023 No Comments
The first image is a photograph taken some time in the late 1930s or early โ40s of my great-great-grandfather, Marion Crider, and his second child, my great-grandaunt, ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ถ๐ฒ, standing in front of what appears to be a storefront on Main Street in downtown Sumner. Sadie moved from Eagle Bend, Minnesota to Sumner, Washington in 1905, […]
Marion Crider and Naomi “Oma” Maynard
October 18, 2023 No Comments
The first image is a portrait of my great-great-grandparents from my paternal grandmotherโs side: ๐ ๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ถ๐ผ๐ป ๐๐ฟ๐ถ๐ฑ๐ฒ๐ฟ and ๐ก๐ฎ๐ผ๐บ๐ถ โ๐ข๐บ๐ฎโ ๐ ๐ฎ๐๐ป๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ฑ. Both were originally from Eastern Kentucky. Marion was born on June 30, 1856 while Oma was born on November 8, 1863. She belonged to the ๐ ๐ฎ๐๐ป๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ฑ ๐๐ฎ๐บ๐ถ๐น๐ of Appalachia. After the Civil War, her family […]