Back after taking off for 1 complete year

I'M BACK!!!!!  I would have been back a little sooner if I'd have remembered my password.  So, I finally had to change it to get back on my blog.

For a welcome back post, I'll post some pictures of Mary Lynn's family tree.  That should get people to start checking my blog on a regular basis.

Dot and Ben.  Wedding day and one other picture I don't know the date. Really nice looking couple and I can see where Mary Lynn got her good looks!

Annual Chalk Art Contest

Mark working on winning entry

Erin marking off  the canvases

Another year of  our world famous Chalk Art Contest.  Only this year, it was at our new house.  Erin did a great job marking off our canvases.  Mark T is shown working on his winning entry, while Mark W tries, but fails to make the top three.  Our theme was "Stars and Stripes Forever".

Here all all the entries for this years completion in order:  Bob,  Mark T, Brian, Kevin, Kim, Julie, Mark W, Andrew, Jill, Erin, Mary Lynn

 

  
 

 









Mark T won, with Erin and Jill tied for second.

Lego Sculptures Virtual Tour

Make sure to see the real things at the Louisville Zoo

 

 
 
 

 

TRACING THE FAMILY HISTORY Part 6

I'll start this part with the 9th person in line in the Children of William Clarence and Olga Dow Burch Tabler.

I've added three pictures for Helen Elizabeth, 10-30-1926.  Aunt Helen became a Sister of Charity with the name Sister Gabriel Maria.  As you can see the picture on the right, at age 17, she was a lovely young lady.  She died 5-2-1977.


Next in line was:

Thelma Ruth, 7-3-1928.
I found it amazing that I didn't have a good picture of Aunt Thelma by herself.  As of this writing, she is the only one of Dad's siblings still living.  Bob and Thelma Jecker added two more children after this picture was taken, for a total of 10.

















11th on the list is Herman Louis (Hank)  8-5-1929.  Uncle Hank made a career out of the Army and lived in the Washington D. C. area.  Thus accounting for my 2 cousins up on the east coast.

12th in line is Ethel May (Teedle) 12 -14- 1930.  This is the best picture I have of her, and it's a nice picture.  Her and Bill Clemerson were married at our house on McCloskey Avenue in 1954.  I remember that wedding well.  Aunt Teedle died at an early age of 45 on 10 - 23 - 1976, leaving 6 young children.

Last in the line of 13 is Charles Leo 3 - 22 - 1933.  He was in the Army but I don't have a picture of him in uniform.  Uncle Charlie died at the age of 61 on 8 - 7 - 1994 in Washington State.








The next installment I'll switch over to the Bibb side of the family.

TRACING THE FAMILY HISTORY Part 5

We continue with the children of William Clarence and Olga Dow:

Mary Catherine "Skeets" 1-12-1920 (Skeets will also show up later in the Bibb section, as she married my mother's brother, William.  Thus my many "Double Cousins")
Aunt Skeets was one of those  I really didn't know her real name for many years.

Francis Louise 2-12-1921.  I met Aunt Francis several times, but she lived in Tennessee when I was growing up and didn't see her very often.

James Edward 2-27-1922.  I like to show all the Tabler men in uniform, if I can.  For one thing, I'm proud of them and their service, and it also catches them at the right age I want to use.  Young Adults.









The next in line was Chester, born in1923.  Chester either died at birth or died very young.  There are no pictures of him and no exact birth or death date.

8th in line was Philip Wesley (Bolie).

 Uncle Philip moved to Washington state when I was young.  He had 4 children and accounts for my West Coast Cousins.  I have a cousin in Washington, California,2 in Colorado.
 









I think I'll stop this entry here and continue with the 9th in line on the next blog.

FAMILY HISTORY

Well, You'll need to read my posts in order.  They've gotten mixed up and I don't know how to get them back in order.  Also, the photos and text won't go where I want them to go.  So, I'm sorry.

TRACING THE FAMILY HISTORY PART 2

We have now arrived at Nicholas Clinton Tabler.  I wish I had a picture of him.  He is buried only about 200 yards from my former home on Goddard Avenue, in St. Louis Cemetery.  He is my Great Grandfather, but I never met him.  He died in 1913, a little before my time.  However, I do have a picture of his wife, Sarah Logan Thompson Tabler Cox.
 

Nicholas Clinton eloped with Sarah Logan Thompson and were married in Jamestown, TN in 1870.  Family stories say that Nicholas was in the Union Army the last 3 months of the Civil War.

There Children:
Cora
George Elmore
Mary Dorinda (Molly, Marie)
Caroline (Carrie)
John L.
William Clarence (My Grandpa)
Joseph Austin

Sarah, having outlived Nicholas by some 23 years, dying in 1936, remarried a man half her age, Clint Cox.  Clint Cox was killed in an auto accident.  Sarah is buried in Corydon, IN
I can remember meeting my Grandpa's brothers George and Joseph.  George didn't live far from us when I was growing up, and I went with my Dad to visit him several times.  Joseph (Uncle Joe) lived at a time on the farm.  And, if I remember right, wasn't thought very highly of by the family.  Maybe know as the family "Black Sheep".

I have many pictures, so now we'll talk about my Great, Great Grandparents on my Grandmother's side.

These are 2 of my Great, Great Grandparents, parents of Lucinda Green Burch, who is the mother of my Grandmother, Olga Dow Burch Tabler.  I have no idea what year this picture was taken.











Next, we'll talk about my Grandmother's parent's, because I have a lot of pictures to choose from.