A FEW EARLY PHOTOS

Having a cluttered life has allowed my to have in my possession all these amazing photos. My thought is that all first children are set up to have cluttered lives because we are given too much stuff. Some of the stuff might be valuable later.

My grandfather Edwards was one of twelve children of John E. and Ester Edwards. In this photo he is seated on  the far right in the second row. My aunt Mertie (my mother's older half-sister) is in the lap of my greatgrandmother Ester in the center of the second row.

My greatgrandmother and greatgrandfather Edwards on their 50th wedding anniversary.

My grandfather W. H. Edwards (my mother's hero)

Original Edwards farmhouse 

where my mother was born (later lived in by three orphan children that my grandfather took in in their late teens who worked the farm, Morey, Albert and Violet Hallren. Violet later became postmistress of Hamilton)

W.H.Edwards and Bertha (my grandmother) in front of the house 

Hamilton to which I came home from

the hospital. (and the focus of most of 

my childhood summer and vacation memories occurred - I once dreamed while sleeping in the east room upstairs that the house diagonally across the street burned; when I told my grandmother, she said that in fact it had years before - spooky)

Helen Shannon and her mother Bertha portrait

My greatgreatgrandmother Shannon

My grandmother and grandfather Shannon

Gail, Norman and Lois Shannon