Wordless Wednesday

Funny Pictures

If you enjoy looking at old pictures especially funny ones you should check out Photo Detective with Maureen A. Taylor. I have a funny one in the Newby collection, the back of the picture says

Frank Allison (I think it is Allison) and wife and Thomas Newby and sister left. I believe the sister is Mattie Newby Burdick who was a Doctor in Denver.

Memorial Card

Wordless Wednesday's post was a card (funeral, memorial, remembrance) that was in with some pictures of the Newby family which I was blessed to get from my Aunt's things sometime after her death. My Aunt had received the pictures from her mother. We think Mr. Newby was my Great Great Grandfather, King Newby.
The card is about the thickness of the old photos of that time period. It is black with gold writing. The really bad thing is the card doesn't have the name of the city which he lived in or the name of the company which printed the card.
After posting the card last week I just got a couple of comments from Betsy from Tennessee. She had never seen anything like this before. This reminded me that I really haven't had much time to research this type of card. So I Googled funeral cards and found a link to Ancestors At Rest which I have read a few times before. There I found cards which were similar to the card for Mr. Newby. Most of the cards pictured had the copyright and the printer's name. How I wish mine did.
I also found an interesting article at Ancestry Magazine.com on Funeral Cards. I believe after reading the article the card I have is a Memorial, or mourning card. I still don't know where he died but I feel a step closer just by finding out what type of card it was. My hope is that by posting the card and this information with links someone who knows more about Memorial cards will be able to provide some information about where this came from.
We think the family lived in Tennessee, Alabama and possibly in Georgia.

Wordless Wednesday!

A treasure and we hope a clue to a brick wall in the Newby Family genealogy!

This may be my Great Great Grandfather Newby as 1889 is about the time we lost all record of him. The problem is this doesn't give a first name and there is no way of knowing where this is from. PLEASE! PLEASE!! if anyone has ever seen anything like this let me know.

Labor Day

Since Labor Day is coming up on Monday I thought I would post some work pictures of the family.

I believe the man on the far left to be my Great Grandfather D.H.Newby, he was a coal miner.

I think the man on the far right in the next picture to also be my Great Grandfather, D.H.Newby. This looks like he is older so maybe he took a job in a textile mill later in life.

I'm not sure who is in this picture or even where it was taken.

There are a group of ladies on the far right of the next picture. My Aunt Bonnie is in the middle of the back row.

The man on the far right in the next photo is my Great Grandfather Ziegler (Will Ziegler). I'm not sure if this was his store or when he worked for someone else.

The next picture is O. B. Andrews Co. Chattanoooga, Tn Dec. 2, 1941. Back row 4th from the right is my Grandfather (John Ziegler)

My Mom is the 4th lady from the left on the second row in the next picture. The picture was taken in 1944.

Wordless Wednesday

Don't know who this sweet baby is!

Find a Grave and Tombstone Tuesday

About a year ago I discovered from a lady I met on the Find a Grave website that my Great Great Great Grandfather John Long and his wife were buried at the Lookout Cemetery. This lady was so wonderful to share LOTS of information on the Long Family with me. The Lookout Cemetery is near the Chattanooga Valley Cemetery where my Grandfather and Grandmother Kelley and other relatives are buried.

My family and I went out and found the Lookout Cemetery. We walked and walked and walked and never found the graves for the Long family. It must have been 100 degrees that day we were so HOT. I left thinking there were no markers.

Then I discovered that my Great Great Great Grandmother Adeline Burk was also buried at the Lookout Cemetery. I decided to put a photo request in on the Find a Grave website. On Sunday I received an e-mail from a very nice man who had taken the time to go to the Lookout Cemetery and search for the graves. They were not buried at the Lookout Cemetery.

He didn't stop there he took the time to search more and found the Old Lookout Cemetery about a mile down the road and there they were John and Elizabeth Long and Adeline Burk. He took pictures of the markers and posted them on the Find a Grave website. Because of the kindness of someone I don't know I now have pictures of my relatives graves. I hope to go soon to find the Old Lookout Cemetery.

If you haven't checked out the Find a Grave website please do.