Heritage Album pages 8 & 9

Page 8: John (Jack) H. threshing. He was my great-grandfather--my mom's mom's dad.


Page 9: My grandma's parents, John Irving H. and Beula Hazel Cox H., married June 14, 1917. These photos are undated (as are just about all of the photos in this album), but both portraits were from Iowa (his from Youngberg in Sioux City, hers from the Le Grand Studio in Anthon).

Today's work on the heritage album

I got more work done this Friday than I did last week, but I'm still not quite even halfway finished with the album. The first time I posted these photos, most of them were horribly blurry (except for the first one) but I've replaced them with slightly better ones. Page 2 (this page goes side-by-side with page 3, which I posted last week). It's just journaling about that portrait of the Button family. I came back later and added that button, ain't it cute?

Page 4: Photos of Oscar and Ida Hall Button. These were my great-great-great grandparents! My mom's mom's mom's mom's mom and dad. ;)

Page 5: Lillie Amanda Button Cox (daughter of Oscar and Ida on page 4) and her husband Joseph Ain Cox. This was their wedding photo, from December 1890.


Page 6: Matthias and Anna H., with their son Bert. Another son of theirs was John H., my mom's mom's dad. So these people in the picture were my great-great-grandparents and my great-great-uncle.


Page 7: Four of the 10 (I think) children of Matthias and Anna H. My great-grandfather, John H., is at right.

Here is something really cool I noticed about two of the pictures today: My grandparents' wedding picture (from 1944, page 1) and my great-great-grandparents' wedding picture (from 1890, page 5) were both taken at the same studio in Sioux City, Iowa!

If I work really, really hard I suppose there is still a possibility that I might finish the album when I scrapbook next Friday, but I'm not going to count on that.