Papap passed 3 days before my 6th birthday.He was my great grandfather. We had visited before he passed because we knew it was coming. I can remember, even in his old age and dying, he had the best hearing imaginable. You had better been quite because he heard everything. Then we went back for the funeral and celebrated my birthday while in PA. I was young but I remember them taking me outside at the funeral home an I picked out a bunch of seashells they let me bring home. I still have some of them today.
Portrait photographs and paintings of our loved ones and ancestors.
Before photos we had paintings of family members - most usually these were reserved for the well off. The era of modern photography began with the daguerreotype, in 1839. Since the advent of photogr...