This layout, uses Waite for the Moment Designs' Remembering When No. 8 kit, and as it appears my great grandmother Lucy is wearing a brooch--perhaps a cameo?--around her neck, i've also added one of the charming, beautifully extracted cameos from Old Lady Designs latest offering, Great Grandma's Cameos. Here are the previews:
Remembering When No. 8
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And here is my LO!
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In slave times, stars, particularly the North Star, were significant.
Journaling reads:
My father's parents were John and Hattie Eva. They were born in the late 19th century in North Carolina--Both were the direct descendants of slaves. My father's maternal grandparents, J. Alfred and Lucy, are pictured. My grandparents moved to Cleveland before my father was born. My father reports that my grandfather owned and sold real estate in Cleveland, but the census records list him as a common laborer and my grandmother as a housewife. My grandfather died before my father was a teenager, and my grandmother, my father and my uncle lived with my grandmother's brother, in Ohio, for several years until everyone moved back to Mecklenberg County, NC, where most of the rest of the family lived. It was not an easy life for any of them.
My grandmother, pictured, and all of her sisters, were educated through high school and beyond. On the Federal census of the time, you can see that my youngest aunt was in school in her early 20's, living with her mother who owned the house in which they lived. I am not certain, to this day, how my grandmother earned her living while in NC, but i do know that she drew a social security check, until she died in the early 1970's.
I do not have many pleasant memories or stories about my grandmother. I hope that she cared for me, but this was not evident-to me--at anytime I lived with her; the depth of our poverty did not help the situation in the least. My most favorite times living with her came as she nurtured all of us in developing our spiritual lives: evening worship, Sabbath church attendance, gatherings of church members at our house--i still appreciate these times. I also remember that she was always very good about making certain we were healthy. I spent hours in doctor's offices getting slight curvatures of my spine tended to, eyesight checked and glasses bought, and when i had to have my tonsils out, she was very caring after i came home from the hospital.
I loved my Uncle Jimmy--my father’s brother-but did not see him often. He and his family, my Aunt LaVera, and cousins Kim, Keith and Kevin, lived way up north in Illinois. I am still in touch with my cousins.
Credits:
- Remembering When No. 8 (Waite for the Moment Designs at Ivy Scraps)
- Great Grandma's Cameos (Old Lady Designs at Ivy Scraps)
- Fonts: Title: Mandingo (lol); Journaling and brass plates: Harrington.
- Thanks to Briana Schulz of Atomic Cupcake for old brass and sanded away actions.
Blessings,
LLG Denise
