Sock Monkeys in the Past

Hello!  Your friendly, charming sock monkey here.  Now we’re going to do something good for Throw Away Thursday. Van has been a bit serious and boring lately showing all those photos of serious dead people. None of them ever seem to be smiling. That’s not fun. And you want to know why? Just look at the photos – there’s not a sock monkey in sight! And everybody knows that sock monkeys bring joy wherever they go.

My Papi tells me about how excited Van used to be when he visited his grandma Murder and found him in the toy chest. (See second photo in this post.)  It was the highlight of the visit.

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But this post is not about Van. It’s about sock monkeys bringing joy. I found a real old picture – probably a bunch of munce ago – and even though it is old, the humans are smiling. Why? Because a sock monkey is in the picture, that’s why! Case closed. This is Papi and his Bettilou back in the day.

 

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Photo of Van with Papi in 1964.  See how happy he was?

Bucklin Gathering 1949

Bucklin Group NumberedIt’s kind of hard to beat that gold mine picture from last week, so I’m not going to try. Hopefully we’ll have some fun with names this week. I tried to identify as much as I could from other photos, but wasn’t able to name them all. With the help of the Bucklin community we have everyone named. This is a photo from about 1949, probably in Hathaway. #13 is my great grandmother Addie Mae Hine Bucklin.

And as a special treat because of all of the responses (and because I just found this photo today in all of the stuff I got out of the house in Jennings while cleaning it out with my brother and sisters and nieces and nephew) I am attaching another photo of the same group on the same day. I think they took this one because when they looked at the first one closely on their phones, they could see that Grandma Addie wasn’t smiling. So they took another one. See the smile? Look really close!

Bucklin Group 2nd Photo

Joseph discovered some other photos of this scene with more people and posted them here.

Myrtle Sylvia Phenice Bucklin ca. 1945

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Found this old photo of Grandma (Myrtle Sylvia Phenice Bucklin) and I really like it. So I scanned it and edited out the scratches and age spots. (On the photo, not on her!) I think it came out really nice.

It’s amazing how traits are passed down to children and grandchildren. I never really noticed a resemblance in my cousins and my grandmother. But when I started working on this photo, I really zoom in close to different features. And when I spent time looking at those features, they would remind me of many of my cousins. We are a product of our ancestors.

Hine Havenar Twentieth Annual Double Birthday Celebration

Susan G. Stanbrough Hine (75) and Mrs. W. E. Havenar (60)’s Twentieth Annual Double Birthday Celebration October 3, 1926. Taken at William E. Havenar’s home. If you are friends with any Hine, Stanbrough, Bucklin, Phenice, Keys, or Havenar descendants on please share this with them.  If you can help with the names, leave a comment.

The first photo I found of this celebration was at Ruth Bucklin Bruchhaus’ home in a frame and had the date written on the back.  Since then, we have found more shots from the get together as well as a newspaper article. You can click each photo and the article to make them bigger. If the newspaper isn’t large enough to read on your screen, it has been retyped in the first comment below. I posted negatives and another print from this celebration, here.

Hine Havenar 1926 numbers Hine Havenar 1926 framed Hine Havenar 1926 another photographer Hine Havenar 1926 newspaper article
1. Walter (Mutt) Havenar [E] [S] [J]
2. Myrtle Phenice ?? [E] [J]
3. Jesse Havenar [S]
4.
5. Robert Bucklin [E] Robert Compton [J]
6. Mrs. Walter Havenar (deaf) [J] [E] [S]
7. Clarence Bucklin ?? [E]
8. Henry Phenice [E] [S]
9. Pewee, brother of #68 [J] Marvin Keys [ ]
10. Grm. Havenar/Taylor [E] Edessa Jane Havenar [S] Havenar [ ]
11. Leone Johnson Bucklin [E]
12. Helen Bucklin Taylor [J] [D]
13. Ralph Bucklin [J]
14. Herbert Bucklin [J] [E] [L] [S]
15.
16. Orville Phenice or Johnny Williams [J]
17. Marvin Keys [E] [S]
18.
19.
20. Seidel Keys [S]
21. Myfawny’s little brother ?? [ ]
22. Leonard Keys [S]
23. Methodist Preacher [S] Lloyds
24.
25.
26. Clarence Bucklin [E] [J] Clarence/Fred [ ]
27. Earl M. Brown [E] [J] [S] [D]
28.
29.
30.
31. Orville Phenice ?? [ ]
32. Elvin Walton or Seidel Keys (Marvin’s bro.) [E] Steve Havenar [E]
33. Warren Phenice [ ]
34.
35. Myrtle Phenice
36.
37.
38. Alta Hine [E] [S]
39.
40.
41.
42. Williams/Iva Brown [ ]
43. Audry Hine [E] [S]
44. Warren Phenice [E]
45. Harry Phenice [E] [S]
46.
47.
48. Daisy Keys Phenice (Sylvan’s mom) [E] Edessa Havenar Keys [S]
49. Edna Bucklin [E] [S]
50.
51. Edward Keys [S]
52. Sylvan Phenice (wore that style hat that year) [E]
53.
54. Mary Bucklin [E]
55. Kenneth Wayne Hine [E] Kenneth Ayclif Hine [D]
56.
57.
58. Leta Hine (Bert Hine’s daughter) [E] [S]
59.
60.
61. Wanda Hine (bro. #55) [E] not Wanda [D]
62.
63.
64. Bertha Koll [E]
65. Ruth Bucklin [E]
66. Marguerite Phenice [E]
67.
68. Myfanwy Williams [E]
69.
70. Wanda Hine [S]
71. Shirley Havenar [S]
72. Dorinda Thomas Hine [D] [E]
73.
74. Grandma Thomas [ ]
75. Phenice girl [E]
76. Grandma Havenar or Taylor [E]
77. Grandma Havenar or Taylor [E] Mrs. Taylor [S] Taylor [ ]
78. Edith Keys [S]
79.
80.
81.
82. Jim Hine [E] [S]
83. Darlene Hine [ ] [S]
84.
85. George Hine [E] [D]
86. Susan Stanbrough Hine [E] [S] [D]

Identification Key:

[D] = Darlene Hine Landry
[E] = Edna Bucklin Keys
[J] = John Compton
[S] = Edith Seagraves
[ ] = Don’t know

William E. and Edessa Jane Havenar were Edith Keys Seagraves’ grandparents. [S]

Clement and Bucklins

Clement and Bucklins at Cameron iphoneMy parents and I went to visit cousins in Hathaway. They had some old photos I had never seen before. This one is from 1941 with mom and her sisters in it. My mom was not too happy to see this photo. It was at the beach and she said that she almost drowned when she went swimming and has been afraid of the water ever since. This did not stop her from teaching us to swim and to not be afraid of the water. What a good mama.

Joseph posted a better scan here.

Easter Fun Through the Ages

That crummy, dummy Easter Bunny left no eggs for me,
That crummy, dummy Easter Bunny hopped right by with glee!
I tracked him to my neighbor’s house and stood outside his door,
And when I saw that Bunny head, I knocked it to the floor.
I tied up all his whiskers and macramed his ears.
I sat down in my rocking chair and drank three beers.

———–by Betty Lou Bucklin Landry and Van Landry

 

This is my standard Easter post of a poem my mom wrote many years ago. For those who are paying attention, I have added two lines this year. I always thought it was missing something between hopping right by my house and me tying up his ears. How did I get to his ears to tie them up? Here is the answer! Conflict resolved.


Here are a few photos of my early Easters, before all the conflict with the Easter Bunny!

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In Lake Charles in 1963 with my brothers and sisters and mom.  Al, Rob, Jodie, Van, Jamie in mom’s (Betty Lou Bucklin Landry) arms, and Karen.

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The Landrys in Jennings in 1964 with some Pilcher (Bucklin) cousins. Lynn P, Karen L, Toni P, Al L, Van L, Jodie L, Mark Carte, Rob L, Kevin P, Paul P, Larry P, and Jamie L.

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Here I am (Van Landry) in Hathaway at Grandma and Grandpa Bucklin’s house Mar. 29, 1964. We always went there on Easter and had a big Easter egg hunt with the cousins.

 

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In Hathaway with Grandma Bucklin, cousin Rhonda, sisters Jamie and Jodie, and brother Al. That’s me (Van) behind Al who is eating his chocolate bunny. Easter 1964

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