I wondered if I would be able to connect these pictures to our current family.
Some ancestor was kind enough to write names on the back of these photos, but I had not come into possession of these pictures until after the death of my husband's aunt.
"How are you related to these people," I questioned my husband and my father-in-law. It is a question I often ask at family reunions and gatherings. Even the living I don't know well enough to remember when I see them infrequently. The caption on the back of the picture on the left was Aunt Kate and Uncle Phil Henn and the caption on the picture on the right was Aunt Minnie Gregg. My father-in-law did not remember how he might be related to any Henn or Gregg.
With the help of Legacy Family Tree software, I found the connection. I searched my the name Kate and the name Minnie. I eliminated the Kates/Catherines and Minnies from my ancestral lines and husband's maternal lines, and I found a Kate married to Philip Henn and a Minnie married to Edgar Gregg.
Kate was the sister of my father-in-law's grandfather. She died when my father-in-law was only four years old and that is why he would not have recognized her.
Minnie is another sister of the grandfather of my father-in-law.She died more than fifty years ago.
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FirstCousin-Once Removed Jan writes, "I was just reading about Aunt Kate and Aunt Minnie.
As far as Kate - I don't know if that was who they referred to as Mamma Kate or not? I was thinking maybe this was Aunt Anna until I saw when she died.
(When you said R****your father-in-law was four when she died)
Anyway -
I remember Aunt Minnie really well and Uncle Ed Gregg!
Mother came to Napoleon her Jr. year in High School from Waverly.
Uncle Ed was on Napoleon School board and so impressed Grandma and Grandpa L**** that they wanted Mom to finish her education here in Napoleon! They had been concerned about the Waverly School System.
So she (mother) stayed with the Greggs till she graduated then attended Defiance College! (teacher)
By coming to Napoleon - that's how she met my Dad :>)
Grandpa L**** had a sister Anna! She married a Rollin.
According to our History books she was a teacher and was the "first" Librarian in Napoleon!
The first Library being established in the parlor of a home!!
At that time she was listed as Anna L****
I "remember" Aunt Anna really well. We called her Aunt Nana! I remember her living in several different homes here in Napoleon. I don't ever remember her husband so he must have passed away maybe before I was born.
Just wanted to share that!
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