Here again are the Peters brothers without their two sisters, to have a basis for the wonderful old pictures of a brother's family, apparently very close to Great Grandfather Edward.
Back row, L-R: George (1875), Edward (1857-1930), John (1873-1949). Front row, L-R: William (1864), Charles (1868-1934). I have some family photos of the two sisters, Ellen or Nell (1856) and Ida (1870-1944) to come.
The earliest photos of Charlie's family are of some of Grandma Koftan's favorite cousins, with whom Mom also corresponded. On the rear is written, "To Uncle Ed from Nina Sarah Peters aged 21 mos. Edith Lenore Peters aged 7 mos. May 1900."
I last had a note from Lenore, who never married, from Northfield, Minnesota, in 1992. I had written her and her sister, Mildred, about Mom's death. She was 92 but wrote as clearly as [Great] Aunt Myrtle and included family news: "Our family has lost some of its members, too. We were six brothers and sisters of which Nina, Max, and Franklin are gone, Roy, Mildred and I remain. My father Charles Peters died in 1934 and Mother in 1972." She mentions Mildred's living in Albert Lea, Roy in Portland.
Nina S. (b. 8 December 1898) and E. Lenore (b. 10 July 1899) are in the back behind their parents, Charles (b. 3 May 1868--d. 7 February 1934) and Edith Mabel Fisk Peters (b. 25 December 1874--d. 21 July 1972); the three boys in front: Charles Max (b. 16 August 1901), John Franklin (b. 4 July 1903); Roy Fisk (b. 19 January 1906), the sixth child not yet born, Mildred A. (born 12 December 1910). Sue has extended family notes for Nina, Max, and Franklin.
Nina and Lenore again.
Gram didn't distinguish the men, but she's marked out Nina and Lenore in the back and Mildred in the front. As I said, she was very fond of these cousins. Mom sent Christmas cards to them.
I had some correspondence with Mildred, Mrs. Ellis Christianson, and last heard from her in Albert Lea in 1993, when she sent me some assorted old family photos. Part of her note was this: "Since Ellis died I am disposing of things as I am contemplating entering a retirement home. . . . Lenore is 93 and is in her own home yet, but is trying to dispose of things, too. I haven't been to see her since Thanksgiving." (And she was writing in spring because "The tulips and daffodils are coming up thru the snow.")
A very dim photo postcard includes "Fern," Grandma Koftan, the bow tie kneeler in the second row.
And she sent this one labelled as "Grandma & Grandpa Peters," "Mother and Father of Charles Peters" on the back, John and Sarah Ann Twigg Peters, Grandma Koftan's grandparents.
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