Showing posts with label 1920s. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1920s. Show all posts

Sunday, June 19, 2016

Remembrance of First Holy Communion

This certificate was given to my maternal grandfather to commemorate his first holy Communion on 3 May 1925.  It is falling apart, but it is pretty awesome to find something that was given to my grandfather 91 years ago.  It must have been important to him because he kept it for the rest of his life.


Sunday, April 17, 2016

Photo of the Day

This is a school photo of my maternal grandmother taken in 1927 in Trenton, New Jersey.  She would have been 11 or 12 years old.

Kathryn (Bunting) Branyan
1915 - 1998

Friday, March 25, 2016

Photo of the Day

This is a photo of my paternal grandmother and her older sister, probably taken in 1925.  It is printed on a post card.
Norma Lea LeGates (1922 - 1992)
Ellen LeGates (1924 - 1970)


Bills of Repairs September 24,1904

 This cover sheet is found in the Civil War Pension File of my paternal third great-grandfather.  The bills were submitted by a pension atto...