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Thread #44342   Message #652385
Posted By: GUEST,BigDaddy
17-Feb-02 - 08:39 PM
Thread Name: Family Keepsakes: What have YOU kept?
Subject: RE: Family Keepsakes: What have YOU kept?
Where to begin? With the oldest, I guess...an ambrotype (photographic image on glass) of great-great grandmother Eleanor made around 1858 and a teapot she owned. A dauguerreotype of her husband Sylvester in his civil war uniform holding his 1851 Colt Navy revolver. He died at Andersonville prison not long after. Photos of most of my other great-great grandparents as well. My great grandfather George's pocketwatch and jeweler's loupe and great grandmother Mary Jane's ring and brooch. My grandfather's pocketwatch, Colt pistol, UMWA pin, a rolling pin he carved, an arrowhead he carved from a mussel shell and nine poems he wrote. And his blacksmithing tools. Also a window he handmade for his mother-in-law's (Addy's)log cabin. My grandmother Lula's rings and things. And that's just a start...