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Manic Monday - Branch
My dad's parents, August 21, 1913
My Branch of the Family Tree
This is the oldest known family photo and comes from a restored daguerreotype and dates from the 1840's. Before the Civil War, Jesse was reportedly the richest man in Kansas City, but lost his whole fortune when Union General Thomas Ewing banned Jesse from the city because Ewing suspected Jesse had been bankrolling Quantril's raiders. Jesse died a pauper.
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That's a good idea with the family tree ! and very interesting. Sad for you that your g g grandfather lost his fortune ! I also like these old wedding pictures, the couples always look so serious as if it was a funeral and not a wedding, lol !
Oh, wow! Those are awesome photos. It's great that they have stuck around after all these years!
Fantastic, I love old family photos
danged yankees anyways!!! and your grandmother is gorgeous!!!
smiles, bee
very good gracie, the mellon cutter just cracks me up
Very cool Gracie-I love the old photos. How come they always seem to have more character than ours?
Also, I love that Jesse posed with a pool cue.
great idea.....and i love the photos and the stories to go along with it....thank you for sharing....and thank you for dropping by my blog.....
Happy Monday!
Love the old photos, great idea
the photos are great! how sad about Jesse...
Great photos, loved the music. Great blog.......
Amazing photos from Amazing Grace, it must be neat to know your history and actually have pictures that far back. Very nice.
I love old photos; I wish my family had photographic evidence like this. My husband's father can trace his ancestry all the way back to the first white child born west of the Allegheny Mountains.
Great post, Gracie!
So cool! Amazing that you have those photos!
You have very attractive ancestors!
All the old pics of my ancestors look "mean and ugly" in the words of my mother!!!
This is a great 'branch' post!
cheers,
Manic Mo
Great pictures!! I love the seriousness of the first picture. They are such a handsome couple too. I am so sorry about your side of the family but a lot of things happened like that unfortunately. I have a lot of old pictures. I do scrapbooking. I want to try to preseve pictures so that one day people will actually KNOW who is in that picture!! Sandy
Amazing Gracie, These are wonderful photographs. How nice that you have them.
The Melon is killing me today. He must really be on a roll!!!
Thanks for sharing these beautiful old photos. Your grandparents look really great. It's wonderful that you have kept the photos in good condition after all these years.
Very sad story. I think it is awesome thought that you have those pictures :)
Blessings on your Monday and always.
How cool! Thanks for sharing that with us.
My goodness Gracie, those pictures are fascinating ! How interesting to know your history like that !!!
Those are some great family photos, you are very lucky to have them.
So sorry to hear about Jesse, though. So many people lost their fortunes during Civil War times. It was an ugly, ugly period of our history but one that I am totally fascinated with.
I really liked the old photographs. Thank you for your warm words on my first Manic Monday.
Wishing you well
Oh wow, how cool is this post! You are very lucky to have these photos!
I love this post. I hope you will share more stories with us. That was neat. Thanks Girl
Wow, those photos just made me pause. They're tangible links to the past. Great MM post!
My stepdad has some amazing old photos. They are really fascinating. It's wonderful to have that kind of history in your hands.
I Love Them ! Great !
and i do not even think at that time we have camera in china... lolzzz but i do keep my grand-grandpa's photos...
Great pictures! I've done some digging into the old roots, too, and it's so great when photos turn up! Thanks for visiting!
wow you are so lucky to have a record of your family like that.
what a wonderful family history! you are so lucky to have such beautiful photo's!
I loved this post 1st time around, it gets better with age.
Just a beautiful wedding picture! I've never quite seen anything like it, Grace!
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