My Great Great Grandpappy

[Oddball]

I have a large print of this up in my home office.

This is my great great grandad on my mom's side.
He looks to be in his 50s here but that's just hard living. He died when he was 42.
Loose clothes and slim tell the tale.
He grew up in Dark Fired Country.

 

[kcghost]

A lot of people had it very rough prior the depression then thing got brutal for them.

 

[smudgersmissingleg]

Cool picture, mate.
BTW is your avatar picture Donald Sutherland in Kelly's Heroes? I'm pretty sure it is.

 

[anotherbob]

I have a large print of this up in my home office.

This is my great great grandad on my mom's side.
He looks to be in his 50s here but that's just hard living. He died when he was 42.
Loose clothes and slim tell the tale.
He grew up in Dark Fired Country.

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he looks pretty cool but great great maybe extra great. Kidding love these kinds of pictures. Faces and demeanor can tell a big story. Thanks for the share.

 

[anotherbob]

Cool picture, mate.
BTW is your avatar picture Donald Sutherland in Kelly's Heroes? I'm pretty sure it is.

I'd rather assume he is Donald Sutherland.

 

[Grangerous]

A younger George Burns is what came to mind. Thanks for sharing. It was hard living back then. We can easily take things for granted.

 

[autumnfog]

He has the getting things done-aura many actors try to have.

 

[mso489]

He seems to have been doing pretty well. That is a formidable team of mules, well cared for and fed. Mule teams were trained in tandem and were highly coordinated to working together. It was no small matter to get that cooperation going, I bet he was proud of them. His dog seems to be right on the job too, a sturdy farm collie.

 

[Doctor Chopper]

That is one kick-ass cool photo dude!

This is my great great grandad on my mom's side:



He was also a horse man. He went to Texas and Arizona to buy horses and sold them back in Wisconsin. He was born in 1867 and died at 90 years old. My Mom never mentioned that he smoked a pipe, until I found this photo. It was only a few days before she passed that she had to confess that he did smoke a pipe. I would like to think that it was the reason he lived to 90.

Thanks for sharing your photo, I love these pictures.

-Doc

 

[trouttimes]

Grandfather one one side was always man, a chain gang warden and a rancher. My other grandfather was a drunk and hung for stealing horses. I guess I fall somewhere in the middle. Love to look back at a simpler but harder time.

 

[mso489]

I bet he did a lot of living in those 42 years.

 

[anotherbob]

That is one kick-ass cool photo dude!

This is my great great grandad on my mom's side:

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He was also a horse man. He went to Texas and Arizona to buy horses and sold them back in Wisconsin. He was born in 1867 and died at 90 years old. My Mom never mentioned that he smoked a pipe, until I found this photo. It was only a few days before she passed that she had to confess that he did smoke a pipe. I would like to think that it was the reason he lived to 90.

Thanks for sharing your photo, I love these pictures.

-Doc

part of the reason I'd wager.

 

[Seeleybc1]

I have a large print of this up in my home office.

This is my great great grandad on my mom's side.
He looks to be in his 50s here but that's just hard living. He died when he was 42.
Loose clothes and slim tell the tale.
He grew up in Dark Fired Country.

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Damn that’s cool. He’s got the clench down pat

 

[macaroni]

Thanks for the great picture, OP and thread. I've enjoyed revisiting here several times.
kindly
mike

 

[jpberg]

He seems to have been doing pretty well. That is a formidable team of mules, well cared for and fed. Mule teams were trained in tandem and were highly coordinated to working together. It was no small matter to get that cooperation going, I bet he was proud of them. His dog seems to be right on the job too, a sturdy farm collie.

That’s the real story of this photo. Having a tandem team of mules, set up like that was really something to be proud of.

 

[jpberg]

And now we talk about video games.

 

[SaxonX]

This is my great grandfather born in 1875 England-he was recovering from pernicious anaemia (although it killed him shortly after) in Bournemouth on seaside holiday in the 1930s after a life as a butler and valet. I had this photo for years and only recently spotted that he was enjoying his pipe as he walked along the promenade......must have been an English high summer from his heavy coat