Four Generations of the Hine Family
Addie May Hine Bucklin with some of her descendants in 1959.
This is an unusual title for this photo, considering that no one in the photo was going by the name Hine at the time it was taken. I could have used the Bucklin name instead, but the matriarch (Addie May Hine Bucklin) in this photo was only married into the Bucklin family.
I could just as easily have called it the Stanbrough Family since Addie’s mother was Susan G. Stanbrough Hine – you know her – Grandma Sue. But then I could go ahead and use other names in Addie’s line like Cox, Vestal, Mills, Brown, Hester, or Miller. Technically I’d be correct, since there are four generations of family members from those lines. But all of those lines came together to bring us Addie Hine, so it’s her maiden name that I went with.
It’s kind of surprising that I’m using such a blurry photo for this week’s post. I’ve been working with that new photo-enhancing feature that I mentioned three weeks ago. It has some limitations, but I’ve gotten some really good results with some old photos. It helped me to come up with an amazing photo – and I mean amazing – of my grandmother Bucklin (Myrtle Sylvia Phenice Bucklin). If you happen to stop by my house, I would be willing to give you a preview. But in the meantime, all I can say is, “Wait for it…”
The photo I’m sharing today was taken around the last quarter of 1959. The youngest person in the photo is my brother Al and he was born on July 24, 1959. He doesn’t look very old in this photo. The oldest person in the photo is my great grandmother Addie and she died on November 25, 1960. The next oldest person in the photo is her son Fred, who was my maternal grandfather – you know – Grandpa. On the far left is his daughter Betty Lou, better known to me as Mama. She’s got Al in her lap. Next to them is little Karen Jean. She’s kinda sitting on Grandpa’s lap. On the other side of Grandpa and Addie is Jodie Lou. She was the oldest of us kids and she was about six years old in this photo. Next to her is my oldest brother Rob and our dad Robert Joseph “Bob” Landry, Jr.
So there they are – the four generations of the Hine family. I sure wish she had lived just a little while longer so I could have had a photo of myself with a four generation span. Oh, well. At least I have this photo of my siblings with her. Though recently I have seen a glimpse of another photo that possibly includes everyone in this photo.
Photo of Addie Hine Bucklin and her family possibly on her birthday celebration on September 23, 1959.
I took these photos on my phone while watching an old video that my dad made at the birthday of Grandpa’s siblings Ruth and Roy in the late 1980s. My dad included some shots of old photos and this one caught my eye. I can make out Addie sitting down in front of everyone and my siblings and dad to the right of the photo. Now that I look at them together, it looks like it could be from the same day. This group photo showing everyone around Addie makes me think it could have been a birthday celebration for Addie. Her birthday was September 23, so that would fit within the time frame I gave for the first photo I discussed.
If anyone has the original photo, I would love love love to have a good copy or scan of it. I guess it’s my turn to “wait for it…”
July 10, 2020 – I realized that I had another 4 generation family photo for the Hine family. It has Addie in it, but it continues on a different line than mine. It goes through her son Ralph, his daughter Helen Bucklin Taylor, and her son Ronnie. It also includes Addie’s youngest brother Ollie. It was taken at an earlier birthday for Addie in 1948.
Four generations of the Hine family in 1948.