The Ghosts of Christmas Past

For my December blog I have decided to do something a little different. I’m sharing photos of Christmas heirlooms and my ancestors during the season.  Enjoy! 

  

A postcard from 1908 sent to my Great-Grandma Mildred S. Bishop-Hunter, from her Aunt Hattie Brewer.

Taken in the late 1920's my G-G-G-Grandparents John J. and Eliza E. (Wilson) Bishop in their Greenwood, Ind home. (Oh, how I wish I had that spinning wheel!)

From the Elwood Call-Leader, my Great-Grandma Mary Melissia Webb-Eurick-Smith's letter to Santa Claus.  

Christmas ornaments that my maternal Grandma Bernice Hunter-Smith put on her tree as a teen in the 1950's. They now go on my tree!


   

     

A poem that was written and published by my step-Great-Grandma Georgia A. Fowler-Ellis in 1971.

                                    

             One of my favorites! My Great-Grandma Mildred Hunter's "Shiny Brite" tree. She had this for years and years

                     

Here is a gem from the past. These are the children of John and Eliza Bishop. The sons are Jacob (my G-G-Grandpa), Fred and Frank. The daughters are Mable, Carrie and Flora. We believe it was taken in Christmas 1894.

                                     

                                              My Great-Grandma Anna Marie Hahn-Gwinn-Cornwell, with Santa in the late 1980's.

       

A copy of  the Christmas postcard my G-G-Grandma Jessie Brewer-Bishop sent out to family and friends in 1906. These are the two children she had at the time Mildred (my G-Grandma) and Clarence.

              

       This is a poem that my cousin Amelia Nicole Williams and I wrote, it is not yet an heirloom but it will be some day.

MERRY CHRISTMAS!