I've been tackling my one back bedroom that is my "attic," messy and cluttered, so I've been finding bunches of photos stashed away in no particular order, which explains the range of dates and people in this group. First, an undated photo of the Luckert farm in the Morrillville area halfway between Bloomfield and Center, where George and Anna Jones Luckert reared their family after their soddy days, the house washed out in the bright light at the right side of the barn, between the barn and the three trees. It looks to be some kind of assessing photo.
Next an early photo of Harold and Anne Stocking Alexander.
An early photo of Elizabeth Evelyn "Bubbs" Stocking Davids and her son, Owen, born 6 June 1945, to help approximate the picture's date. It seems clearly at her mother's--Aunt Lizzie Luckert Stocking's--farm.
I may have used this one before, but it's worth repeating and another one at Aunt Lizzie's, great grandchildren gathered around George Washington Luckert, L.-R.: Joan and Gene McShannon, Owen Davids (figure out the date using the photo of him just above), and Dixie Alexander. The flowers suggest that it's Easter.
Another photo of Grandpa Luckert, with Uncle Rich Luckert's "Concrete Batch Plant--Enough Concrete to Build 510 Miles Side Walk Will Be Used" on the back, suggesting Rich's Kiewit years and a rare visit by his dad, probably when Rich and his family lived in Rapid City, SD.
A photo of "Bradley Scott McShannon, Age 7 1/2 months," Archie and Hazel Stocking McShannon's tagalong born well after Joan and Gene above, sadly killed in a motorcycle accident when he was 21, buried next to his parents, those cemetery photos in another entry.
A photo from a visit of Aunt Evelyn Luckert Bruhn's to our house in Center, on our front step. Back row, L.-R.: Cousin Judy Bruhn, Aunt Lizzie Luckert Stocking, Barbara Kramer, Aunt Evelyn's granddaughter brought up by her like a sister to Judy and a bit older, actually Judy's niece and my second cousin (daughter of Walter and Joyce Bruhn Kramer). Front row: Aunt Evelyn Luckert Bruhn between my sisters, Sue Ellyn at the left and JaVee Ann at the right. Had to be in the late Fifties, Sue born in 1952, JaVee in 1954.
And actually two of Grandma Koftan's photos but Luckerts, us, exactly as Gram has it labeled, 1950, at my eighth-grade graduation (hence my carnation and Mom's corsage) in our front living room.
And Dad/Jack showing off his newest fishing rod on the street in front of our house, looking south to where Ernie and Minnie Sandoz then lived, later/now Rex (deceased) and Gladys Risinger. I'd say it was about the same time as the one above, 1950 or so. It can be contrasted to the one of him very young I recently found, apparently taken at Aunt Lizzie's farm. (And I always say her name for the farm because Uncle Vern died when I was two.)
When I was little, people called me "Little Jack" because I looked like a Luckert then, tall, thin, dark--though I aged into Koftanhood in looks and figure. You can judge for yourself from this photo taken at JaVee's in Dad's last years and a blurry one from my high school days.
I also wanted to add two newspaper items of interest. First, in the 21 January 2010 Bloomfield Monitor, under the "Monitor Moments, 100 Years Ago--1910" was this item about Great Grandfather John C. Luckert: "John Luckert shipped four railroad cars of cattle to the Omaha markets on Thursday of last week."
Last July in the Omaha World-Herald and later the Norfolk Daily News was the account of a lawsuit filed against the Dodge County (NE) jail for negligence in an inmate's death, the plaintiff the defendant's mother, Sherry Luckert of Effingham, Kansas. Anyone who Googles that same county or the Luckert name for Kansas will have dozens of entries popping up, though I have no idea if they are related to the Nebraska Luckerts. The name is hardly a common one.
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