Last night together for dinner and Celebrating Hal's 81st Birthday

Enjoying a bit of the grape at a local winery on Friday

Dinner Thursday night at Doug's Fish Fry

The Cousins at Seneca Falls Historical Society

Who are the Great Aunts in the Photo? Also who are the bride and groom?

As Grandma’s grandchildren an important factor in the life of all the cousins was the multitude of Jackson women who were sisters and sisters-in-law to Grandma.  They were our Great-Aunts.  Two of her sisters were maiden great aunts.  Aunt Lil and Aunt May lived in Midland Park on Cottage Street in the big house that James Jackson built sometime between 1911 and 1914 to house his large family.  When he died in 1919, his wife Jane, assumed ownership of the house until she passed on in 1933, leaving the house to Aunt Lil and May.  In the following years other great aunts came to live in the house when they were widowed, and all were a factor in the lives of Grandma’s sons and their children growing up in the town close to Midland Park. 

In this picture taken at the 1968 wedding of Glenn and Linda Jackson three of the great aunts are seated to the right of the groom standing.  Who can identify the three great aunts?

A challenge to the cousins

Good Day everyone Happy Summer. The Blog is getting a little stale. I find it hard to believe that no one has any interesting or funny, stories, quotes, or photos to add to the blog. So I am going to throw a challenge out there.

For the month of July I am looking to collect the funnest, craziest, wackiest (or whatever you would like to call it) photos of your families (does not have to include other cousins). 

I will post them on the blog for the month of August, during that time I will be collecting votes from EVERYONE on which one is the best. The winner who supplied the photo will win a special award, if the winner happens to be attending the reunion it will be presented at the reunion. 

So come on people dig thru the archives you know you have that one picture that has the potential to be the winner.

Just a little hint for August, I will be looking for the funnest, craziest, wackiest (or whatever you would like to call it) stories that have happened to your family, so start thinking.

Rich

The Bob & Phyllis Branch of the Wehrell Clan at a 2017 family get-together in Juneau, Alaska.  This is the entire branch of the family minus a couple of late arrivals born around this past Christmas.  There is no particular significance to the placement of the members of the clan except that Lynnette is seated dead center in the mass of bodies.”