{"id":51,"date":"2010-08-28T17:15:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-28T17:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/findingeliza.com\/archives\/51"},"modified":"2021-11-07T11:54:33","modified_gmt":"2021-11-07T16:54:33","slug":"backyard-photos-theodore-st-detroit-michigan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/findingeliza.com\/archives\/51","title":{"rendered":"Backyard Photos – Theodore St. Detroit, Michigan"},"content":{"rendered":"

While going through my grandmother’s photographs awhile ago I noticed that they had photos of people lined up in the backyard.\u00a0 When I looked closer I found some of the relatives I had not realized we had pictures of.\u00a0 One lingering question is why was cousin Alphonso the only relative I met?<\/p>\n

\""theodore<\/a>
May 1940. My grandparents, Mershell and Fannie Graham, with unidentified visitors.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\""theodore<\/a>
Summer 1960<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Left to right:\u00a0 Abbie Allen Brown, Mershell Graham (my grandfather), Alphonso Brown(Abbie’s son), me, Doris Graham Cleage (my mother)\u00a0 Back – Fannie (my grandmother)\u00a0 Henry Cleage (my uncle & step-father).\u00a0 Abbie was my 2 x great aunt and Dock & Eliza’s daughter.<\/p>\n

\""theodore<\/a>
“Stella + Ros 1960 Our back yard. On visit from Chicago.”<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Left to right: Roscoe, Fannie, Stella, Abbie. Roscoe McCall was Mary Allen McCall’s son. Stella was his wife. Mary was Eliza’s daughter.<\/p>\n

\""theodore<\/a>
\u00a0“Right to left:\u00a0 Bobbie, unintelligible name, Mrs. Bishop, Daisy, Fan, Alice, Abbie.\u00a0 Taken by John Wesley Allen.\u00a0 Our back yard.\u00a0 9-21-61.\u00a0 Daisy passed 11 – 24-61.\u00a0 Her last picture.”<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

John Wesley Allen was Ransom Allen’s son.\u00a0 Ransom was Eliza and Dock’s son.\u00a0 Abbie was Dock and Eliza’s daughter.\u00a0 Alice was my grandmother Fannie’s youngest sister.\u00a0 Daisy was my grandmother’s sister. Bobbie was John’s wife.<\/p>\n

\""theodore<\/a>
Same day as above with John Wesley Allen on the right.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\""Theodore<\/a>
“Alice , Abbie , Ruth , Mother, Daddy. Ruth Pope age 15”<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Ruth is Beulah Allen Pope’s granddaughter and Robert Pope’s daughter. Abbie and Beulah were Dock and Eliza’s daughters.\u00a0 Robert Pope, Fannie and Alice were Dock & Eliza’s grandchildren. Ruth is Eliza’s great granddaughter.\u00a0 August 1963.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While going through my grandmother’s photographs awhile ago I noticed that they had photos of people lined up in the backyard.\u00a0 When I looked closer I found some of the relatives I had not realized we had pictures of.\u00a0 One lingering question is why was cousin Alphonso the only relative I met? Left to right:\u00a0 … Continue reading Backyard Photos – Theodore St. Detroit, Michigan<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[162,14],"tags":[48],"class_list":["post-51","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-allen","category-grahams","tag-yard-photos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/findingeliza.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/findingeliza.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/findingeliza.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/findingeliza.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/findingeliza.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/findingeliza.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34853,"href":"https:\/\/findingeliza.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions\/34853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/findingeliza.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/findingeliza.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/findingeliza.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}