This Friday’s letter was written in January 22, 1909, shortly after my great grandmother, Mary Kimmerly, married my great grandfather, Clarence Preston Duck. I love this letter because it contains the story of the naming of the house, Hillcrest Cottage, which I just wrote about on Wednesday. Great Grandma was writing to Ethel (Duck) Rockey,…
Every Thursday, I share an excerpt from my Great Aunt’s book, As the Story is Told: A History of Morpeth and Community, which was printed in 1986. …continued from last week… Due to the Talbot Road, proximity to lake shipping and talk of the coming railroad, Morpeth prospered. By the late eighties (1880s), it was…
Hillcrest Cottage is a house I spent a lot of time visiting in the 1980s when I was a child. It is where my great aunt lived alone for many years after her mother’s death in the 1970s, where she was born and raised since 1916. Where my great grandparents took up residence in 1909…
What does your salt shaker look like? We have a salt grinder, actually a set of Haida patterned salt and pepper grinders: Great-great grandma had these “salt cellar” dishes. I didn’t realize they were called “salt cellars” until I started doing a little research. They are certainly cute little dishes, bearing the same pattern as…
I love this postcard that my grandparents sent to my great grandparents while on their Niagara Falls honeymoon in January, 1942. Isn’t this cute? My grandma’s nickname, which it sounds like everyone called her, was Bunny.
Every week, I share an excerpt from my Great Aunt’s book, As the Story is Told: A History of Morpeth and Community, which was printed in 1986. Smith Grave Yard 1818-1986 Morpeth Cemetery Researched and compiled by Keith McLean This brief history of our burial ground from pioneer days until the present time records the…
Today’s old photo features my grandparents, Donald and Monica Duck, who got married on January 28, 1942. Their honeymoon took place in Niagara Falls. I was very close with my grandparents, because we lived next door to them on our farm. It’s fun to see them looking so young here.
Another useful table from the antique Farm Account Book. I wonder which crops my great-great grandfather planted? I know they grew potatoes.
This was my maternal grandmother’s history textbook. I haven’t gotten a chance to share much about my mother’s side of our family yet on this blog, but I plan to expand to the Sloan and Maynard side as well. My grandma, Jean Elizabeth Sloan, was born in 1909. Like most teens, it looks like Grandma…
Thank you to all those who have enjoyed this series of 1920s Valentines that I have been sharing over the past couple of weeks. I hope you enjoyed them! This is the last Valentine I’ll be sharing for 2014. I wanted to share it, because it was sent to my grandfather as a child, from…
