Ceta, Bethel, & La Verna Holmes, taken in the doorway of our home in Hammonton, Ca. My sister Ceta was born in l916 and named after Ceta Sweet. Mama read Peter Rabbit & Mother Westwind stories to us that ran in the Sacramento Bee and from the Mother Goose book Aunt Lou gave to me.
La Verna Lewis (Holmes) Mc Farlane was born on January 28, 1914. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember La Verna Lewis (Holmes) Mc Farlane.
Bethel Nadine (Holmes) VanTassel was born on February 19, 1909. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Bethel Nadine Holmes Van Tassel.
Pets are loved members of the household just like family. There's a reason our pets are often called our 'best friends'.
Remembering the companions of our ancestors and those that comforted us in the past. Dog person? Cat person? That's usually the debate when it comes to pets. As of 2022, 70% of U.S. households have pe...
Photos of the 1900's which brought us from the industrial age to the technological age.
From 1900 through 1999 we witnessed the beginning of flight to a man on the moon and a Mars Rover. We went from using phones tethered by cords and computers that filled rooms, to carrying the equivale...
World War 1, the Mexican Revolution, the Russian Revolution, the Easter Rising in Ireland . . . the sinking of the Titanic and the Lusitania. Spanish flu killed well over 20 million people world wide ...
Our homes from the past - from our childhood family home, our starter homes, to the homes we retire in.
Our homes provide us with a sense of security, stability, and comfort, and it is where we can escape from the outside world and find peace and solitude. A home is a place where we can relax, unwind, a...
Bethel Nadine Holmes of the gold dredging town of Hammonton, Calif. Author of "Peeks Into Sierra Pantries" & "Wood Chips To Game Chips, History of North Lake Tahoe Casinos." Retired from Univ of Nevada Library. Grandaughter of Samuel Jackson Lewis & Martha Love Barker and John Hughes Holmes & Clarissa Angella Laine. Descendant of Wm Braden & Euphemia Jackson, Van Rensselaer Holmes & Elizabeth Ross (dau of Ignatius), Melissa Sheral, Casandra Le Sueur, and James Barker & Martha Patsie Love Emmitt.