Larry Cawley

Anne Eliza Keller, born approx 1872, died circa 1950, Cleveland, OH

A photo of Irma K. McCammon, taken during WWII with USMC

A photo of Pierre Baur, Myriam Baur, Antoine Baur, Francine Baur
Nationality: French (Jewish)
Residence: Paris, France
Death: December 30, 1943
Cause: Murdered in Auschwitz (buried in Auschwitz death camp)
Age: 10 years, 9 years, 6 years, 3 years

Carroll family hoeing corn in Florida.

A photo of WWII Nurse Vivian Bullwinkle. Escaping Singapore on 12th Feb 1942 with 65 other Australian war nurses on the SS Vyner Brooke along with hundreds of other men, women and children, she found herself and 21 other nurses on Radji Beach, Banka Island.

When Japanese troops arrived, they killed all the men, then they gathered 22 nurses together at the beach.

Vivian said nothing aloud. None of the nurses did. Except for the sound of the water hitting their thighs, the beach was silent. Vivian, sad to think her mother would never learn what happened to her, suddenly felt peaceful when she realized she would soon see her deceased father. She wanted to communicate her new emotion to the other nurses. She turned and smiled at them. They returned her smile 'in a strange and beautiful way.'The Japanese and ordered them into the sea, where they machine gunned them.

Nurse Bullwinkel, badly wounded and feigning death, was the only survivor..

A photo of Cpl Seth Ernest Kyle - Seth was a farmer from Lucy, Shelby County, Tennessee. He was killed in action October 19, 1918 near Brandyville, France.

A photo of Notre Dame Cathedral, Paris, France circa 1901

Believed to be built on the site of a Temple to Jupiter and then an early Christian basilica, building began on the cathedral in 1160 and took a century to (mostly) complete. Many of the materials from the previous churches were used in the construction of the new cathedral. Over the centuries, there were additions and modifications in the building but the basic structure has remained mainly the same. The most famous stained glass windows date from the 1200s.

- A cathedral school opened in Notre Dame in 1170, decades later becoming the University of Paris.

- A Third Crusade was announced from the cathedral.

- Henry VI of England was crowned King of France in Notre Dame.

- James V of Scotland was married there, as were Mary Queen of Scots and Henry IV of France.

- Victor Hugo set his novel "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" in the cathedral.

- Napoleon had his coronation in Notre Dame, presided over by Pope Pius VII.

The cathedral has been the home of innumerable pieces of valuable art and religious artifacts and a center of Paris for over 850 years.

Albert L. Phipps, sitting on front porch in Muncie, Indiana, at the home where he lived . Hoyt ave. in 1953

A photo of Ivey Oscar Drewry Sr.

Hollis F. 'Fred' Kroetch in 1928 Washington state, the son of Hollis "Joe" Kroetsch & Dorothy (Ferguson) Kroetch. Named after his father and his uncle Fred Kroetch; both descendants of Joseph Kroetsch & Angeline Chartrand.

A photo of Harriett Buntain Worley preparing Christmas dinner. Harriett Buntain married Bartholomew Worley in Indiana. They had three kids: Nora, Harry and John Worley. Inscription by son Harry says "Mother preparing Xmas dinner 1913".
People in photo include: Harriett Buntain Worley

A photo of a child posting a letter to Santa, December 1920.

President Teddy Roosevelt signing the Thanksgiving Proclamation Act in 1902. President Franklin Roosevelt (Teddy was his cousin and Eleanor's uncle) moved Thanksgiving from the last Thursday of November to the fourth Thursday of November in 1939 to give Americans more time to shop for Christmas!

The text of the Proclamation:

THANKSGIVING DAY – 1902
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA – A PROCLAMATION
According to the yearly custom of our people, it falls upon the President at this season to appoint a day of festival and thanksgiving to God. Over a century and a quarter has passed since this country took its place among the nations of the earth, and during that time we have had, on the whole, more to be thankful for than has fallen to the lot of any other people. Generation after generation has grown to manhood and passed away. Each has had to bear its peculiar burdens, each to face its special crisis, and each has known cares of grim trial, when the country was menaced by malice domestic or foreign levy, when the hand of the Lord was heavy upon it in drought or flood or pestilence, when in bodily distress and in anguish of soul it paid the penalty of folly and a froward heart. Nevertheless, decade by decade we have struggled onward and upward; we now abundantly enjoy material well-being, and under the favor of the Most High we are striving earnestly to achieve moral and spiritual uplifting. The year that has just closed has been one of peace and of overflowing plenty. Rarely has any people enjoyed greater prosperity than we are now enjoying. For this we render heartfelt thanks to the giver of Good; and we will seek to praise Him, not by words only, but by deeds, by the way in which we do our duty to ourselves and to our fellow-men.
Now, wherefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States, do hereby designate as a day of general thanksgiving, Thursday, the twenty-seventh of the coming November, and do recommend that throughout the land the people cease from their ordinary occupations, and in their several homes and places of worship render thanks unto Almighty God for the manifold blessings of the past year.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Done at the city of Washington, this twenty-ninth day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and two, and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-seventh.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

This is a photo of my Grandfather, Charles Zimmermann's store on Hamilton Avenue in Cincinnati, Ohio.

This is a picture of Fred Stewart. Son of Mr. and Mrs. James Stewart, brother of Elsie E. Stewart.

A photo of Cathy Harris's legs in the TV Commercial for the Ted Mack Amateur Hour. She was the dancer in the Old Gold Commercial

A photo of an Ostrich Wagon Ride - McMichael Family Vacation

A photo of Selma Virginia Mahan, about 1910. She subsequently married Thomas Davenport Samuels.