Melvin Hunter Phillips

The men in the above pictures is my great grandfather Melvin Hunter Phillips. The woman is his second wife Louise Ripsch. His first wife is my great grandmother Loucinda Hunnicutt.

Melvin was born 8 July 1877 in Johnson City, Tennessee.His parents were Charles Green Phillips and Delilah Jane McInturff. He was one of 10 Children: Melvin, William H., Annis, Anna, Charles, Sarah, Mary, Hugh, Alta, Mallie.

He died 5 May 1947 in St. Bernice, Indiana. @ 69 years old. Retired from Chicago, Milwaukee, St.Paul, & Pacific Railroad as an engineer.

Lucinda Hunnicutt, Loucinda Hunnicutt

These 3 pictures  are all I have of my great grandmother Lucinda. The first picture is of her as the mom with her 3 girls at the time: Ollie, Hazel and Edith abt 1905. The second is of her abt 1930. The last is her death certificate, she died in St. Bernice April 11, 1940. Lucinda was born 15 September 1875 to her parents Robert Honeycutt and Nancy A. Miller in Elizabethton, Tennessee. She was one of 12 children-they are as follows:
 Lucinda, Sam, Tom, Frank(b.1892), Bill, Matt, Jane, Nathaniel, twins that died @birth, Nell, Rufus. At the time of her death, she was survived by her husband, Melvin, her daughters: Ollie, Edith and Genevive, her brothers: Tom, Frank, and Sam.

Lucinda married Melvin Hunter Phillips 14 January 1898 in Unicoi, Tennessee.

A favorite story of my mother's  as she lived with Lucinda her grandma ( she called her Mom Mom) was sitting outside on the back steps of the house eating strawberries from the garden while Mom Mom took laundry off the clothesline.

If anyone has additional stories -I would love to hear them or I'd love to see additional pictures and post them here!

Robert R. Wayne in Kokomo, Indiana

Robert R. Wayne is my grandmother's 2nd husband.They are the second set of pictures in front of this house  in South Bend. She loved him very much and for the few years they were married -they were very happy! Pictured here in the first set of pictures is their lake house in Kokomo, Indiana and the car they drove. I wish I knew which lake- but I do not. The third set of pictures was his birthday in 1949( he is holding the cake!) and people from South Bend came to visit and obviously had a great time. I would love to know who they are, please post if you do. I do assume that they were some of his family.
Robert and Edith were married  64 years ago today! 21 August 1947 in North Canaan, Connecticutt
Robert R. Wayne was born: 4 Aug 1896 most likely in South Bend, IN, died:4 April 1951, South  Bend, IN
His parents were Herman G. Woyahn b. 27 Oct 1862  Wanatah, IN d. 16 June 1912 South Bend,IN
Minnie Joers b. 25 Jan 1869 Chicago, Cook, IL, died 20 July 1928 South Bend, IN
They are all buried in Riverview Cemetery in South Bend.

 

family names mentioned are : Claude Reed, a stepson

Mary Lou Downs, my mother, stepdaughter

Mrs. Noble Miller, his sister

Weeding Through the Generations

My thoughts have drifted to my front lily garden the past few days. The weeds overtook my garden in the top picture-there are beautiful lilies there! I need to find them again. In the picture on the bottom left, is an established garden of lilies that just needs cleaning up-it will take some time! Finally, in the picture on the right, on may be able to see that I've weeded and cut back and cleaned up my garden path! I know exactly what is there and now desperately need some pine straw to keep the weeds down.
I love analogies, and this one seems to fit: my garden is like my long arduous efforts in genealogy -family history-in which I search for my ancestors. Sometimes there is not enough information to prove the ancestor is mine (maybe too many weeds!) Sometimes I have the ancestor and I just need to get the rest of his or her information-marriage date, ALL the children etc. And finally, a garden of ancestors that I can see clearly and want to protect and provide a way that my family will bloom forever!

Family, NikNaks, and Work

I figured out how to add more than one pic!
Above my fireplace holds pictures of Stuart's parents: Dottye and Frank and My parents: Mary Lou and Fred. they are held in dearest esteem in our home.
The only real display of NikNaks in our home is a mix of both our family's collection:a sample of my grandmother's cats and some favorites of Stuart's family memories.
Finally, some of what I am working on. I had several pictures that were not labeled nor had a proper home. I am going to place them labeled with the correct family in the right binder!
See my tomatoes in the back corner?? I have canned 31 jars and frozen abt 7 bags of tomatoes!
We are nearing the end of our garden canning. I am very thankful for what we have done!

The Haney Boys

These are my 3 youngest boys. Surprisingly, you might say that they don't look anything alike--but they really do have similarities. Can you find them??
Top pic: Sam is blond on left, Matt above, Mike on the right. They are abt. 14,11,6 yrs Bottom pic: same order: They are 23, 18, 13 yrs.
Right pic: Here L-R: Matt, Sam, Mike. They are 9, 12, 4 yrs
They bring laughter and joy to us and their sisters

The left side of the Hall of Fame

Now this picture is of all my babies and grand-babies at one year old. Everyone enjoys looking at this and guess who is who!