This is not me--I wish!--but the message applies. It's on my refrigerator as a constant (unneeded) reminder Sorry I've been derelict for a couple of months, but I screwed up my computer and ended up deleting some programs like the one I use to edit photos for this blog, besides which the Geek discovered 23 instances of Spyware slowing everything down. As I told Ryan, old men should not be allowed to play with new technology without electronic babysitters. The scanned letter from the youngest child of Charles and Edith Fisk Peters, Mildred (b. 12 December 1910), explains a small cache of wonderful old photographs on thick cardboard, some duplicates of ours I've shown earlier but in better condition. Lenore was her much older sister (b. 10 July 1899), obviously living well into her 90s. Edward Peters, her uncle, was my great grandfather, but Sarah Ann Twigg Peters was the mother of Edward, Charles, their three brothers and two sisters, and I hope soon to make an entry about the 1955 Twigg/Peters family reunion at Des Moines, for which I found several snapshots, not all identifiable. (I was there at Howard and Maude Hammond's when Grandma Fern Peters Koftan met several of her cousins.) I don't think Audree made it as Mildred mentions, but the photos will be the proof.
The first photo is of Chris and Ellen "Nell" Peters Weber. Born 27 May 1856, she was the oldest child of John and Sarah Ann Twigg Peters. Great Grandfather Edward Peters was born in Wapello, Iowa (the photographer's address), where his parents and other family members are buried.
They had five daughters and two sons. Their daughter, Effie (b. 13 May 1896, d. 23 February 1972) married Will Miller, who apparently lived in Missouri (Maryville photographer).
The other of the two sisters to the five Peters brothers (John and Sarah Twigg Peters' seven) was Ida, (b. 8 March 1870, d. 1944) who married a Joe Hammond, Mildred's "Aunt Ida--Uncle Joe Hammond" on the front (same photographer as for the next two).
The following four children in the uneven photograph (overbright top, blurred bottom) are simply identified by Mildred as "Nellie, Howard, Leon, & Ray Hammond" (on the back), "Aunt Ida's family" on the front. Gladys and Joe Paul were born later.
Taken by the same studio are John (b. 4 January 1830, d. 1920) and Sarah Twigg Peters (b. 15 May 1824, d. 17 March 1916), Mildred's "Grandma & Grandpa Peters," "Mother and father of Charles Peters" on back (my great great grandparents).
With both Peters sisters pictured with their husbands above, here is a repeat of the five Peters sons: Edward (b. 9 October 1857, d. 5 September 1930), William (b. 26 July 1864), Charles (b. 3 May 1868, d. 7 February 1934), John (b. 16 March 1873 d. 17 June 1949), and George (b. 26 October 1875).
Leave a comment