Wishing everyone a Haunting Halloween!
Beth and Ed - 1968
Lexa and Kristi - 1978
Lexa, Cam, and Kristi - 1978
Lexa
Lexa - 1991
Matt - 1992
Matt - 1994
Beth & Lexa's Pumpkins - 1994
Sunday, October 31, 2010
Saturday, October 30, 2010
Friday, October 29, 2010
Greenwell - Upton Wedding 29 October 1913
Elsie Greenwell - 1907
Otto Upton - 1912
We don't have a wedding photograph for Elsie and Otto, I think there must have been one given the number of relatives who attended the wedding.
We do have the wedding booklet.
The Cover
Marriage Certificate
The two witnesses are sisters of the bride and groom - Fanny Greenwell Gantenbein and Olivia Upton Adams.
The Guests
Guests included George Adams and Olivia Upton Adams, Roy Greenwell and his wife-to-be Lillian Nelson, and several other Greenwell family members.
Wedding Sentiments
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Cousins 1970-1971
Jennifer, Lexa, and Kristi - 1970
Virginia Upton Smith, Margaret Upton Waning, Jane Upton LaKarie
The back of the photo says:
Three Cousins - 1971
Erie,PA - Gin V's Home
After the General Assembly in Rochester, NY
Virginia (Giny) Smith
Margaret W.
Jane LaKarie
Monday, October 25, 2010
Saturday, October 23, 2010
A Shared Special Day
Happiest of Days to Lex and Jack!
Lexa and Dahlias - June 2010
Barbara and Lexa - Oct 1968
Lex and Beth - 1969
Lex and Jack - Oct 1979
Jack and Lex - Oct 1983
Friday, October 22, 2010
Elsie Greenwell Autograph Album - Part 2
Fanny Greenwell Gantenbein, Edgar Gantenbein, Elsie Greenwell - abt 1902
Maternal Cousin - Ellen Grimm - daughter of Daniel Grimm
Maternal Aunt - Annie Grim(m) - wife of William Grim(m)
Thursday, October 21, 2010
Football - 1971 and 2010
As we prepare for "The Big Game" tonight,
we should remember that some of us have been fans for years, and years, and years!
Lexa and Ed - Fall 1971
Chuck, Lexa, Barb, and Beth - Los Angeles - January 2010
Go Ducks!
Hey - fun news - Matt got tagged in a couple of the Oregon/UCLA photos posted on ESPN. Here are the links:
Matt's in yellow between the Duck's eye and bill.
and:
Matt's in yellow right behind the center of the Duck's hat!
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
Elsie Greenwell Autograph Album - Part 1
Elsie Greenwell Autograph Album
Elsie Greenwell kept a small autograph album from 1897-1901 (age 10-14) while she attended school in Damascus, Oregon.
Schoolmates wrote a sentiment and signed their name.
As did relatives...
The photo below is the closest we have of that young school girl.
Doesn't she have beautiful eyes?
Elsie Margaret Greenwell and Fannie Greenwell - 1904
Again, what's in a name - was she Elsie Margaret, or Margaret Elsie? I think she might have been Margaret Elsie. In the 1900 census she is 13 years old and listed as "Maggie E. Greenwell". She was known as Elsie all her adult life. In the above photo she is 17 years old, and sadly, had lost her father the preceding year.
Greenwell Family - 1900 Census
Anyway, Elsie was born on the first of February, 1887 in Damascus, Clackamas County, Oregon - the 11th of 12 children of Benjamin Franklin Greenwell and Jerushia Grimm. Sometime after Benjamin died in 1903, Jerushia and Elsie moved to Lents, OR (now part of Portland) where Jerushia died in 1912. Elsie married Otto D. Upton October 29, 1913 in Portland.
Sunday, October 17, 2010
Matthew McAdam and Magna Larson McAdam
Mathew McAdam - 1935
I go back and forth on the correct spelling of Janet McAdam Waning's brother - is it Mathew McAdam or Matthew McAdam?
The marker says Mathew...
Magna Larson McAdam - 1935
Both markers are located in the Forestvale Cemetery in Helena, MT.
Friday, October 15, 2010
October 1898 -School
October of 1898 found Janet McAdam in Austin, MN.
There she attended Southern Minnesota Normal College.
She maintained a small autograph album which helps to document her time there. The College was truly regional with male and female students from Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, Indiana, Michigan, and Illinois.
Mary Wiseman of Lansing, MI
Dora Tullsen of Wataga, IL
Emil Koulish fo St Ansgar, IA
The one thing we do not know is if Janet attended normal for more than one term in 1898. Three of her sisters matriculated from Winona State Normal School, but there is no record of Janet doing the same.
Wednesday, October 13, 2010
Children's Books
While the Waning family did not have much (as in hardly any) money, Janet McAdam Waning did what she could to insure her son, Jimmy, had a few children's books.
The above three small paper books appear to have been "Gifts with Purchase" of Colgate toothpaste - very practical - very Scottish!
Monday, October 11, 2010
Wendling - 1926
As I mentioned in an earlier post, Mary Burnet McAdam Emert regularly visited her sister Janet McAdam Waning. These photos document a visit to Wendling, OR in 1926.
Mary Emert, Beth Emmert, Janet Waning, John, James Waning
Beth Emmert and James Waning
Both children are very dressed up - I wonder if it was Easter Sunday?
Saturday, October 9, 2010
Robert McAdam and His Horses - Part 3
Rob McAdam about 1928
The following is taken from Robert McAdam's obituary published December 23, 1937. It is striking that horses received a prominent mention.
"Robert McAdam was born July 13, 1882, on the farm where he lived up to the time of his death, which occrred last Saturday, December 11th. He was baptized in the Presbyterian church of Ripley by Rev. McGillvery, where he attended Sunday school and church.
He received his education in the rural school near his home and the public school of Blooming Prairie. He also attended the Southern Minnesota College in Austin.
Mr. McAdam was a prominent farmer of Westfield township all his life, where is honesty and neighborliness made him admired by all he came in contact with.
On February 11, 1929, he was married to Sophie Ingvalson who is left to mourn a kind and affectionate husband...About two years ago his health began to fail and on October 12, 1936 he entered Mounds Park Hospital in Minneapolis where he was treated for a nervous disorder...
His farming career, in which he delighted, began at an early age. At the age of eight he took pride in driving horses, running the harvester and handling other machinery. His hobby was raising horses. His driving horses as well as work horses were always well groomed and cared for, and he found it difficult to dispose of these at the sale held a short time before his death.
Mr McAdam had a wide range of acquaintances and was admired by all for his honesty and integrity. His disposition was like that of his father, so genial and kindly which won for him his life-long friends who showed their respect by the large attendance at the funeral service, the church being filled to capacity.
He had a tender heart for those in need and was always ready to extend a helping hand. His patience during his long illness will never be forgotten by those who mingled with him during that time. He was afflicted with the dread disease, hardening for the arteries, which gradually gripped him until death relieved him by a light stroke....
Two hundred and forty-nine guests called at the home preceding his funeral...In his memory $48.00 was given to the following: The Ebenezer Home for the Aged in Minneapolis, Home Missions, and Mission Circle #8 of the local Lutheran Church."
Friday, October 8, 2010
Rob McAdam and His Horses - Part 2
Rob McAdam on left and his horses - ready for work
Rob McAdam's Colts - Spring 1928
Rob McAdam and his team - Fanny and Daisy - Spring 1928
Rob McAdam and his drivers
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