Bucklin Gathering 1948

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A Bucklin gathering like this was probably for Addie Hine Bucklin’s birthday on September 23.  Looks like about 1948.  I found three photos of the group (posted with and without numbers).  Apparently Vernon Keys (numbers 4 and 25) ran from the front to the back of the group between shots.  Any guesses what happened to Herbert (12) in the third shot?

After posting these, Van reminded me that he had posted two different photos from this scene. Our year estimates are only off by one so should be pretty close.  Lots of relatives on Facebook worked together to name everyone on his post which was really helpful to me since he had most of the names already figured out.  Mine photos have a bit larger of a group though so there are a few blanks to fill in.

Bucklin Group 1b Bucklin Group 2b Bucklin Group 3b
Bucklin Group 1
Bucklin Group 2
Bucklin Group 3
1. Frank Keys
2. Alma Bucklin
3. Arlene Keys
4. Vernon Keys*
5. Stanley Keys
6. Austin Bucklin
7. Loris Bucklin
8. Laurence Bruchhaus
9. Jeannette Bucklin
10. Roy Bucklin
11. Effie Hetzel Bucklin
12. Herbert Bucklin
13. Louise Bucklin
14. Dora Koll Bucklin
15. Mary Bucklin Phenice
16. Addie Hine Bucklin
17. Ronnie Taylor
18. Helen Bucklin Taylor
19. W.C. Bruchhaus
20. Ollie Hine
21. Lenora Bailey Hine
22. Betty Lou Bucklin
23. Fred Bucklin
24. Melvin Keys
25. Vernon Keys*
26.
27. Sylvan Phenice
28. Harley Bruchhaus
29. Edna Bucklin Keys
30.
31. Ralph Bucklin
32. Guy Havenar
33. Edessa Welton Havenar

Farming 1965

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Combine cutting rice and Ray Bucklin muddy from water leveling, taken by Louise on her Kodak Brownie in 1965.

Ray says the photo of the International Harvester combine is of he or his dad, Herbert Bucklin, driving the combine into the edge of a field to cut a sample of rice to test the moisture content to see if it was ready to harvest. “Daddy always knew whether or not the rice was ready to cut without using the moisture meter and I never remember having to wait and cut a second sample, but he always checked anyway. That is why the combine cut a short curved path just a little way into the field and then stopped. I think I see someone standing up by the hopper to get a sample of rice to test.”

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More Hine Havenar Twentieth Annual Double Birthday Celebration

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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.

I found a package of five negatives from the celebration. This includes a third version of the large group photo and smaller groups with Addie Hine Bucklin who missed the big group photo. Van also found a print from another photographer of this smaller group.

You can see the other versions of the group shot, read the newspaper article, and find many of the names here.

1926 negatives Addie, Susan, Ralph
Addie, Susan Hine, Ralph, Helen in front
Hine Bucklin Group
Bucklins and Hines
Hine Havenar Birthday 1926
Large group photo
Hine Bucklin Group
Found another print
____ Bucklin
___ Bucklin (Herbert didn’t have bow tie)
Henry Phenice
____ and Henry Phenice

A Pitcher from the Past

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1915-03 - Robert Joseph Landry Sr. Baseball team

March 1915 – tryouts for the Texas League Beaumont Oilers.

It’s a picture pun. This photo is from 101 years ago. My grandfather Robert Joseph Landry, Sr. was a baseball player in his younger days. I’ve always heard that he was a semi-pro player. This photo (according to the information on the back of it) was taken at the tryouts for Beaumont in the Texas League in March 1915.

When I was working on this photo, I mistakenly picked out the wrong person to be my grandfather. (I wasn’t around back then, you see. And evidently I can’t read names very well, either) When I got to the guy I thought was my grandfather, I cleared up scratches and such, but I didn’t get any visions of cousins like I usually do when working on photos of my grandparents. The only way I knew I had the wrong guy is that when I started working on the right guy, I had visions of Uncle Hubert, Uncle AJ, Douglas Winn, Mark Reeves, Kenny Landry, Al Landry, Rob Landry, Dennis Landry, Bob Landry, Gregory Raley, Micha Duffy.

BTW the right guy is the one standing on the far right.  From the little research that I did, the name of the semi-professional team was the Beaumont Oilers. The team rosters for 1914 and 1915 showed many of the same names from this photo.

1915-03 - Robert Joseph Landry Sr. Baseball team back IDs

Back of the photo showing names of players in the photo; 1914 and 1915 rosters for Beaumont Oilers

1915-03 - Robert Joseph Landry Sr.

Robert Joseph Landry, Sr. in March of 1915

 

In case anybody is still unsure of which one was my grandfather, here is a crop of the photo above.  You can see more details in it.

McGrath and Mooney: My Irish Roots

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1880s - Mary McGrath Bucklin

Mary Ann McGrath Bucklin sometime in the 1880s

This is my great great grandmother Mary Ann McGrath Bucklin and even though she was born in England, she was all Irish. I knew about her ever since I was young. I didn’t have much information on her and assumed that she was Irish. But she was supposedly born in England. So I searched for her parents’ names. I found her father’s name on the marriage registration when she married James A. Bucklin in 1854. I wanted more.

I wanted the name of my great great great grandmother and Mary Ann wasn’t talking! But her DNA was. My mom had a strong DNA match at 23andMe named Matt G. and the only common surname that we had with him was McGrath. Normally that wouldn’t be enough to go with since McGrath is a common Irish name, but since there was so much common DNA, I pursued it a bit more vigorously.

I sent him her birthdate and birthplace, but the thing that revealed the connection was when I told him that she had settled in Palmer, Massachusetts. That was where his McGrath Irish roots were from also! And the best thing about it was that his grandfather and great grandmother had gathered information about the family and written it all down for the rest of the family.  (For someone who does genealogical research, this is a very exciting thing to hear.)

So I prodded him to find that written information and see if he could find the clear connection. And sure enough he finally found the name of a certain Mary Ann who had married a James Bucklin in Massachusetts in 1854.  Mary Ann and James later moved to Louisiana and over time they lost touch with the rest of the family back in New England.

And here’s the best part. (Wait, didn’t I already say something else was the best thing? Oh, well.) I told you earlier that I wanted the name of Mary Ann’s mother.  She was the last unknown great great great grandparent of mine.  And they had her name! And the name of all of Mary Ann’s siblings -Arthur, Margaret, James, Catherine, John, and Daniel.  They had lived in Roscommon, Ireland and the last sibling was born in Ireland in 1838. So the family moved to Massachusetts some time between 1838 and 1854.

And everyone knows what happened in Ireland during that time, right? The Great Irish Potato Famine.  I’ve heard about it all of my life, but never thought that it had any direct effect on my family. Boy was I wrong! Mary Ann’s parents found a way to move themselves and their seven children to the United States at a time when over 1 million people starved to death in Ireland.  They were among the million people who left to find a better life.

So this St. Patrick’s Day I’m going to celebrate my Irish roots. And I’ll be glad to tell everyone that I am the great great great grandson of Maria Ettadosia Mooney McGrath!

1893 - I was an Irishman

Part of a journal by Mary McGrath Bucklin’s son Louis Charles Bucklin in 1893. He refers to himself as an Irishman. (see green print)

Erie Patureau

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1913 - Germaine Erie Patureau BWPreviously I have posted about my paternal grandmother, who we all called Mee Maw. Everybody still fights over who was her favorite and it’s a good kind of fight. And even though I posted a photo of her as a young girl a while back, I still think of her a matronly woman who loved to travel and visit with her children and grandchildren. But lately I’ve been getting to know her as just Erie Patureau. A girl who grew up in Plaquemine with six sisters and two brothers. The family ran a shop and there was lots of family around.

Things changed when her mother died in 1909 when Erie was just a teenager. The shop was closed, she graduated from Crescent Graded School around 1911, and the family moved to Lafayette in 1912. I’m not sure of all of the dates of those events, but I found a little clue in an article about her graduating class from SLI from March of 1915. It states that “The following January (1912) after all danger of finals was over Erie showed up. Modest and retiring, she was hard to make friends with, but we were determined and now she’s ours.”

So now I too feel like I have gotten to know her a bit and she is mine. But I’m willing to share her with the rest of the family.

Phenice DNA at AncestryDNA

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Aunt Loris Bucklin Woolley (my mom’s sister) agreed to submit a saliva sample to AncestryDNA a few months ago. I had myself and my parents tested at 23andMe previous to that, but I wanted to spread my net to the pool of Ancestry.com testers. One of the first DNA matches that I noticed on her results was someone named Henry Oakley Spencer.

I had expected that match because I already knew that he had a good portion of matching DNA with my mom.  I had interacted with him on Ancestry after noticing that his family tree had matching names of Daniel Phenice and Susan Jackson.  Then he had taken a DNA test at AncestryDNA and uploaded his result to GEDmatch.com.  He showed up as having more DNA in common with my mom than anybody else she matched DNA with.  It was actually more than would be expected for 3rd cousins. 

So the match to him was not a surprise.  The surprise that I did find was a DNA match with the Quillen name. My great grandfather Harry Clifton Phenice (grandson of Daniel and Susan) had a sister named Emma Orra that was married to a Quillen, so I assumed that’s how we were related. And sure enough, I was right.  This DNA match was the great granddaughter of Emma Phenice Quillen.  

1921- Catherine Jane Foster Phenice and Samuel Phenice with grandchildren

Circa 1920- Cathrine Jane Foster Phenice and Samuel Phenice with grandchildren (children of Emma Orra Phenice Quillen).  On Cathrine’s lap is Harold, in the middle is Erma, and on Samuel’s lap is Dean.

Actually two Phenice 3rd cousins (to my generation) have tested there and are matches to Aunt Loris. But the best part is that one of them responded to my note to her and ended up sending me a photo of Harry Clifton Phenice’s parents Samuel Charles and Cathrine Jane Foster Phenice with some of their grandchildren!! I love getting new old photos of my ancestors. It’s an exciting reward to the research that I do.

So if you enjoy this photo, you can thank my third cousin Michelle Quillen.

Way, Way Back

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1875 - William Horsnell and Rebecca in Iowa Rev.This is a photo from around 1875 of William Horsnell and his wife Rebecca in Delaware County, Iowa. He is the reason many of my relatives are here today, though most of us do not descend from him. For those of my generation, he is our great great great great uncle. But he was just Uncle William to my great great grandmother Martha Ann Cook Keys. Her mother Ruth was a Horsnell and the sister to this William Horsnell.

In 1886 William at age 79 moved to a new pioneer state of Louisiana with his new wife. He must have liked it here and wrote back to his family in England, because otherwise Martha would not have known about it. But heard about it she did, and decided to follow through with plans to move her family to the United States even though her husband had recently died. So she sold off most of their possessions and moved to a new country with five young children in tow.

They had intended to move on to Beaumont, but when they stopped to visit Uncle William in China, Louisiana, they liked what they saw and decided to stay. And the rest, they say, is history.

The End of an Era

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The Yellow House on Lucy Street


The Landry Family moved to 758 Lucy Street over 50 years ago and soon it will no longer be part of the family. Our parents moved to an assisted living apartment in Lake Charles a few months ago.  In the meantime, someone decided they just had to have that house on 758 Lucy Street. They had taken a walk through it before it was cleaned out and they declared the house to be a “happy space.” 

My parents agreed to go ahead and sell the house.  So we all got together and cleaned it up, cleared it out, and said our good byes. So many years of Christmases, New Years, Easters, Halloweens, and Thanksgivings with us kids, then grandkids, and now with the great grandkids. So many good memories there.

Here is a photo of the family soon after we moved in.  When my parents were looking for a house, they were unsure of which house they wanted.  The children, however, were not.  We all wanted the yellow house on Lucy Street.  We eventually covered over the yellow with siding, but in this photo you can still see the appealing yellow color.  It was also before we concreted the driveway.  Just like it was when we first moved in.

1965 - Landry Family Heal

In order from left to right:  Al Landry, Jamie Landry, Betty Lou Bucklin Landry, Van Landry, Jodie Landry, Karen Landry, and Rob Landry

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