His wife was my babysitter from the time I was just an infant til I was 11 or 12 years old. Daddy Roy(as we called him) taught us alot about responsibility and work ethic. He would pay us to pull all the weeds out of the cracks in the sidewalk and we loved doing it. I can remember this one time, when my mom came to pick me and my brothers up after work, she was taking forever talking to Bert(his wife). I was in the car and somehow managed to put it in reverse although the keys were in my moms hand. Daddy Roy ran out into the street and got behind the car trying to stop it from rolling away with me in it. He risked his life for me.
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...