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.”

Our Cousin Bill discovers possible Wehrell third cousins of ours in Selestat, Alsace and pays them a visit—Jean Wehrell, his wife Marguerite, and his son, Virgile.  Jean’s daughter Cecile is away at college.  In late 1991, Bill had been on a work assignment to Basel, which lies on the other side of the Rhine from Alsace, France.  He combs the Alsatian phone books for listings of Wehrells and their addresses.  He heads for the nearest one in Mulhouse.  The resident at that address turns out to be a widow in her later years surviving her Wehrell husband and with no English language ability.  A bit flumexed by Bill’s explanation in mixed French and English of why he has knocked on her door, she thinks quickly and redirects Bill to the only other Wehrell she knows—Jean Wehrell, whom she does not know personally, but whom she does know through a newspaper article about the college in Selestat where Jean is a teacher.  She gives Jean’s address to Bill and sends Bill on his way north on a two hour drive to Selestat where Bill eventually knocks on Jean’s door unannounced and is taken in by the family.  The rest is Wehrell family history.

THE ELEVEN WEHRELL COUSINS QUESTION

Grandma and Grandpa had eleven grandchildren from their four sons born over the course of 22 years from 1935 to 1957.  Those eleven grandchildren are the 11 Wehrell first cousins.  Ten of the eleven cousins were able to make the family reunion at Lake Tahoe in 2005.  The ten of them appear in a photo from that reunion posted on this site.  Jimmy, the eleventh, was not able to attend that reunion. He did attend the reunion on Cape Cod in 2008.  A picture of him at the bbq behind the Cove Motel is also posted on this site.  However, several of the other cousins were unable to make that reunion.  Jimmy sadly passed away last December.  There will be no more chances for a photo of all 11 Wehrell cousins together at future family reunions.  The question is whether anyone has a photo from Wehrell family get-togethers in the late fifties or early sixties with all eleven cousins in the photo.  Events such as Nancy Gay’s and Hal’s , or Billy’s (i.e., Jake’s) and Diana’s wedding are possible events where such a photo may have been taken.  If there is such a photo, it needs to be posted on the Blog.

Photos Courtesy of Jack Wehrell

Jack provided these photos. If any one would like to provide captions please send them along and I will gladly add them to the photos.

Happy Mothers Day

Since Mothers day is just around the corner I though that this little video would be an appropriate addition to the blog.