Look at my dad's mother, at her clothing and her hair. Even with the artificial way people were posed in those old professional pictures, she looks as though she's anticipating wonderful things ahead.
Look at her after having five children.She died having another baby, not so long after this was taken.
Times were hard back then.
All those children: and I know that she, by necessity, had to raise a big garden and milk cows and keep a wood fire burning and bake all their bread.... how on earth did women manage to do all that, back then?
Thank You, Lord, for letting me be born in 1944.
Awesome pics and you are right about the story with no words. I don't know how they did what they did.
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Deb
Amen to that one!!!! I just can't imagine doing all that they had to do back then and with none of the modern appliances that we are so fortunate to have today. The look in her eyes changed so much from the first picture to the second one. The second one she looks beaten down by life. Sad!
ReplyDeleteShe looks like a child in the 1st picture and an old lady in the 2nd.
ReplyDeleteIt must have been very hard on her. I know I've often considered my grandmother my hero. She had 10 children, kept house and the garden and taught school off and on over the years and even ran the post office in her small country community for a short time. We are so blessed. 'On Ya'-ma
GREAT POST!!
ReplyDeleteDid you ever see the series on PBS about the families who lived in Canada -- "back then"... doing it all by hand, for 1 year.
They said at the end -- women had a much harder time in those days, then the men did. In every thing they did the women worked harder. Not that the men didn't work, but the women were working harder and longer. It was an interesting series... I wish they would run it again.
These are great photos... I'm sure you cherish them. Praise God for our many blessings in "these days".
I don't know how they did what they did back then... Times were very hard. My grandmother was 1 out of 15 children.
ReplyDeleteShe had to grow up in a babtist home some of her life because they couldn't afford to keep the kids. Then when some of the older kids got out and got jobs and on their feet they'd get the younger one's out. My grandmothers mom died when my grandmother was 18 her dad died when she was 3.. They had a hard life. But the thing that amazes me is that none of kids were never bitter, and they were close and loved eachother deeply..
And now all of the kids have passed on. My grandmother out lived all of her brothers and sister. She was amazed by that.
She passed 2 years ago.
I miss my grandmother so much. She was a good woman.
Take care :-)
I love to look at old pictures. The men are always sitting down with the women standing and they never smile. Thanks for sharing
ReplyDeleteI really enjoyed looking at all the old photos of everyone. Times were so so different then. It was a work filled life for sure.
ReplyDeleteAnd now I'm thanking God that I was born in 1987!
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Love Jess
Great pictures. It always amazes me how they did manage to survive back then without going stark raving mad. I remind myself of that when I think I have it bad. Ha.
ReplyDeleteShe was so young and pretty...fresh faced in the first photo. The second makes me want to cry. She looks so worn out but stoic...resolute.
ReplyDeleteMOSIE, THE LADY LOOKED SO TIRED IN THE SECOND PICTURE...AND NO WONDER...BLESS HER SWEET HEART..YEAH THE WOMEN HAD IT SO HARD BACK THEN..EVEN MY CHILDREN DON'T REALIZE HOW ROUGH MY MAMA HAD IT.
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She really looks worn out but who wouldn't after having 5 so close together. Helen
ReplyDeleteI love the pictures! She still looked very young in the second picture. I don't know how they did it. My great-grandmother survived some horrible fever spread by contaminated water and went on to have 12 children. Her husband had a stroke and she cared for him and the kids. Whew. I get stressed when the dryer doesn't work right!
ReplyDeleteWomen never had it easy in life. Thank God for modern conveniences but we still have to work our butts off to afford them! Your poor Grandmother aged so much in the pictures..
ReplyDeleteVery true. My dad's mom had 12 children and her husband died not long after the youngest was born. My dad was five at the time. I guess it's good that she had mostly grown sons and one mostly grown daughter at that time to help out.
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