Jose Eutimio Puente and Family

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Happy Sons and Daughters Day! This 1922 Puente family photo may have seen better days but it shows a couple blessed by *lots* of sons and daughters. Do you have both? :)

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Jackie Lingle

my gr grandparents

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Cindy Sagen Frey

Jackie Lingle that's your great grandparents?

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Jackie Lingle

Cindy Sagen Frey no not that pic I was talking about my dads side the great grandparents had 9 children

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Cindy Sagen Frey

Jackie Lingle ok I was wondering 🤣

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Brian Bonjokian

Their mother must of been exhausted

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AncientFaces

Or the oldest daughters - the "help" often fell to them. :)

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Helle Rau Hartmann

But none of them actually look happy....

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Ree Young

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People generally didn't smile in formal portraits back then, not even wedding photos.

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Audrey Howe

Ree Young It took to long to take the picture, so by then you didn't smile.

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Ree Young

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Audrey Howe Actually, by the late 1800's, exposures took only a few seconds. The little Brownie camera was invented in 1900. I still have my folks' old Brownie camera from the 1920's.

According to the link, this photo was taken in 1922, not long before, sadly, one of the little girls in the front row died.

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Susan Jacobsen

Not quite sure “blessed” is the correct word here..😳

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AncientFaces

Really? My Dad's grandmother had 12 pregnancies - 8 survived to adulthood. I think my grt grandmother would think she was blessed with each and every surviving child.

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Susan Jacobsen

No choices back then for women.. thank goodness we live in a different time..

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Brenda Bilger

Susan Jacobsen

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Joan Savell

AncientFaces my grandmother had ten pregnancies one was stillborn and two died in infancy and I am not so sure she looked on each pregnancy as a happy event.

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Kate Van Dyck

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Very common to have a lot of children at that time as so many did not survive illnesses. Poor mother. My partner's g grandparents had 13 but 4 died young.

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Joan Savell

Kate van Dyck yes Kate very common there was no reliable contraception and all the churches frowned upon contraception anyway. No one in thSt time ever thought about the terminal exhaustion suffered by those poor eternally pregnant women. Many many of them suffered prolapse of the uterus which wasn’t repaired until after child bearing days were over. Nothing was allowed to interfere with keeping the Mrs pregnant and happy. Funny my grandmother and many other of her age group all had the same mantra which was “ IF WOMAN HAD THE FIRST BABY AND MAN HAD THE SECOND THERE WOULD BE NO THIRD.

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Kate Van Dyck

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I think your Grandmother was right!

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Joan Savell

Kate van Dyck I am sure she was.

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Ree Young

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My dad was the eldest of 9 children and, at 14, left school to get a job to help the family. He was already 20 when his last sibling was born.

My mom was the second youngest in a family of 12. She married my dad when she was 16, and they lived with his family where my mom helped out with the housework, cooking, and her in-laws youngest children.

I might have had some brothers, but my mom had 5 mid-term miscarriages. My folks adopted a little girl, and then my mom got pregnant again and, this time, carried full term and had me.

I have two sons...the eldest is 10 years older than his brother, but I had a daughter inbetween the boys. Lost her to SIDS.

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Lora Gillman Boston

Perfectly natural back then....and no birth control.
Pictures took so long to take back then...thats why they didnt smile...had to stay perfectly still for quite some time.

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Sharon Kay Patterson

They didnt have TV then .

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Scott Patch

Before cable TV

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Michele Dilley

Yes 2 sons and 1 daughter 🤗

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Marie Gonzalez

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My grandparents married when he was 21 and she was 13 and a half. My oldest aunt was born when Granny was 14 yrs and 9 months old. My mother is #12 out of the 13 children, 10 boys and 3 girls. There was a set of twin boys (babies #10 & #11) next older than her. They were born more than 2 months early in Nov. 1948, at home. One only lived a few hours, but the other did fine. So out of 12 pregnancies, they raised 12 children. Five are still alve, my Mom and 4 brothers.
I asked Granny once why she had so many kids -- she said "I liked babies and I liked your Grandpa (wink, wink, blushing).

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