While walking along highway 39 near Asher, Pottawatomie Co., Oklahoma, my mother, found an envelope full of very old photographs. They obviously had not been there long, she thought perhaps someone put them on top of their car and had forgotten about them before driving off.
Our hopes were to locate descendants of these persons photographed and return them to their family members. Someone lost these photos and we wanted to return them.
The photo is of Arthur Mitchell perhaps before he was married.
From Karl Benz in 1885 to Elon Musk's Tesla, cars have always been a passion for some. See the evolution of car technology and the types of cars that caught our fancy in the past.
In the 1880's, in an effort to invent an automobile that could be used every day - rather than just a fire pumper or a locomotive for special use - inventors tried steam, gasoline, or electricity as a...
Old photos of different types of transportation - trains, planes, automobiles, and more - as well as the people who piloted them.
Of air, water, and land, only flying through the air had eluded humans for millennia. Wheels on carts as well as river boats are known to have been used since 3500 B.C. But since that time - especiall...
We search many surnames; a few are Pennington, Pitts, Thomas, Kirkpatrick, Fuller, George, Adkins, Cornelius, Redford, Cullins, Seney, Whiteaker, Huckaby, Armitage, Wilson, Hows, Elms,, etc.
I want to build a place where my son can meet his great-grandparents. My grandmother Marian Joyce (Benning) Kroetch always wanted to meet her great-grandchildren, but she died just a handful of years before my son's birth.
So while she didn't have the opportunity to meet him, at least he will be able to know her.
For more information about what we're building see About AncientFaces. For information on the folks who build and support the community see Daniel - Founder & Creator. My father's side is full blood Sicilian and my mother's side is a combination of Welsh, Scottish, German and a few other European cultures. One of my more colorful (ahem black sheep) family members came over on the Mayflower. He was among the first to be hanged in the New World for a criminal offense he made while onboard the ship.