My Family Ancient History Photo....1911...Phillipsburg, Kansas...

From left to right, My grandfather, Joseph M. Fiske, holding my mother, Mercedes, my grandmother, Berenice Fiske, My uncle Clyde (behind Berenice), then two unknown ladies (unknown to me because I wasn`t around in 1911), then I think the kid is my cousin Dean Bickford who later in life had his arm taken off because he was driving his car with his arm resting on the opened window section and a car came along and sideswiped him and took off his arm...And then next to him is my greatgrandmother, who was born in 1866, one year after the assassination of President Lincoln....She died in 1953, at the age of 87, while we living on Kenoak Drive in Pomona, CA (Our first residence in Pomona)...My greatgrandmother had also come out here to California with us, to live with us, in 1950, from her residence in Phillipsburg, Kansas, where she had been living alone... My mother was born in Philipsburg, Kansas in 1911...My grandmother was born in 1888, in the Mid-Western United States, and my grandfather, Joe, was born in 1878, in a small town in Missouri called "Moorseville", two years after Custer`s last stand agaisnt the Souix Indians...My grandfather, Joe, died in 1951, at the age of 73, and not very long after the family moved out here to California from Iowa, and it was my grandfather who drove us all the way here in his late 40`s model Buick, at the time...My grandfather had been employed as a railroad train conductor with "The Rock Island Line" which was based in Iowa, before he retired at age 65...So, finishing up, next to my greatgrandmother, Alice B. Stinson, is another unknown woman and next to her, on the end, I think, is my greatgrandfather, Frank Stinson..And this photo was taken at my greatgrandparents` house (On my mother`s side of the family) in Phillipsburg, Kansas..And why everyone looks so concerned about the kid, hiding in the background, I do not know....A bit of ancient history of my background for those who might be interested...Please click on photo for larger image....

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