All My Ancestors

This is Martha Jane’s aunt Mary, sister of her father John Washington Ball.

and here is another photo of her, which looks like it was taken about the same time.

I think she looks like her father’s daughter. And I also think these photos were taken around the same time. Mary died sometime between 1885 [...]

Martha Jane Ball Cromwell’s grave is unmarked. I feel fortunate to know her resting place because of a trip I took to California in 19??. I took my parents out there to visit my brother who then lived in Fresno, but we also visited Auntie in Buena Park. As in any worthwhile [...]

The picture in the last post of my maternal great-grandfather reminded me that I also have these photos of my paternal grandfather, Thaddeus Morrison Osborne, aka T.M., aka Thad, aka Bud. He’s the one on the left in both pics. You can see that someone has written his initials at the bottom of [...]