Family Ties                            Page 1

This is the TERRY family Picture Gallery. (Please allow time for the large photos to load) 

The first photo is my grandparents , Horace Walter TERRY and Ida Irene TAYLOR. It was taken on their wedding day, November 14, 1896, in Eaton Rapids, Michigan.  "Walt"  was 25, and Ida, my "Gram" was 19.  She had red hair, and could play the piano.

I like to look into their faces  here and wonder what they were thinking at the moment the shutter opened......People were not encouraged to smile in those days,  for having a serious nature was considered the finer attribute.
                                                                
                              

•  The next picture is of my grandfather (above) as a little fellow sitting on his mother's lap.  His mother was Clarasa LEACH and his father was George Washington TERRY, and the  photo was taken at a studio in Batavia, NY in 1874.  On the right  my Grandpa "Walt" is a young man approaching his 'teen years......

Clarrisa (LEACH) TERRY    and son, Horace Walter	Horace Walter "Walt"              TERRY

The  photograph below, made at Ball's Studio in Eaton Rapids,   is of  Clarrisa's (above)  parents, Horace LEACH and his wife, Julia COLBY.  Horace COLBY once served as Postmaster of Onondaga.                                                                                                                                   

  My great-grand parents, Horace LEACH and Julia (COLBY) LEACH

.....And the last picture to be added today was taken in Onondaga at the farm of neighbor friends of my grandparents, the Ora Whites.  The two families are preparing to drive to Florida, and as we see, traveling was a little different in 1917.  My mother, Marion, joined the family in 1913 (she is the little girl held between the adults) and could recount  some  details of this trip from Onondaga to Florida by touring car in 1917. 

She recalled how  when evening came and they were not in the vicinity of a city that had a hotel, Mr. White would stop before dusk at farm and ask permission to stop for the night on the owners' property.  These Ingham County travelers camped  and made a fire and cooked their  meal, which my Mother thought was delightful!       And oh, yes, the dog went too!            

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