Photo found in an antique store in Santa Cruz,California. Not my relative, but photo was re-united with Mamie's great-neice, C. Kimber, back in Mamie's childhood home in Utah. Back of photo states, "Mamie Woodruff, daughter of Marion and Bertha Jensen Woodruff". Located this family in the 1910 US Census in Elwood, Box Elder, Utah... living in household at that time: Marion (father) 48, Bertha (mother) 41, Earl W., 19, Myrtle S., 17, Mayme H., 15, Vernon J., 12, Rora A., 10, Iona N., 7, Leland O., 2, Elmer D. 5 months, & Mary F. Steffensen, 68. Mamie died March 13, 1979 in Le Grande, Union Co., Oregon.
Mamie is my grandfather, Leland Woodruff's, sister. I live in the home that Mamie was raised in. Her DOB is 5 Jan 1895, Salt Lake City, Utah. She Married Joseph Orla Hill 15 Sep 1915, Salt Lake City, Uah. Mary Steffensen is not a sister. Mamie's maternal grandmother was Maren Sophia Hansen Jensen Steffensen. Mamie's mother Hansine Dorthea "Bertha" Jensen was born to the first marriage with Rasmuss Jensen. Maren's second marriage was to Christian Steffensen. I assume Mary fits somewhere into this marriage. I will need to research that further.
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 ...
My life-time love of geneology and old photos led to the concept of Ancientfaces back in 1999....through the site I have made contact with previously unknown cousins in Australia, Tasmania, England, Scotland and various states in the US, broadening and enriching my family stories, photos and family relationships.
The names I am researching resided in and/or settled the following areas: South Wales; Scotland; Northern Ireland; Normandy; Germany, Belgium & the Netherlands; Virginia; West Virginia, Kentucky, Kansas, Idaho and Washington state; first wave of settlers in the Hudson River & Mohawk River Vallies; founding fathers of New Haven, Middlesex and New London Counties, CT, along with Suffolk, Norfolk & Middlesex Counties in MA; first wave of settlers to Quebec and Ontario, Canada. Also, I am a member of the Mayflower Society after tracing my maternal side to John Billington, a Mayflower passenger ( with his family) who settled in Plymouth , and signed, the Mayflower compact.
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.