Wednesday, March 5, 2008

Our kinfolk on the Simpkins side

Below, on right, Grandma Simpkins Deem (Gertrude), with her sister Ethel in 1968 ...................Above, Great-grandma and Great-grandpa Deem



Below, James Jeremiah Simpkins, our Grandad, looking like a dandy, year unknown


Grandad's mother, Mary Elizabeth Rohrabaugh, our Great-grandma Simpkins, on left, and her husband, James Jeremiah, Great-grandad Simpkins, below right, killed at age 52 in a slate fall in coal mine in Orbiston, Ohio, where he was a timberman and foreman, in 1913

1 comment:

LoPo said...

I have NEVER seen that or any photo of great-grandad Simpkins. WHERE did you steal that one from? All framed and everything. What a handsome man he was. Grandad's father? Hard to believe. He looks so gentlemanly.