All across social media is the buzz of the end of another school year. Graduates are celebrating the end of their high school years. The mothers celebrating their babies first year of school. It’s so fun to celebrate all these milestones. I thought I would take today to share some old school pictures I found in Llewellyn’s collections. These photos are also going into my Llewellyn Network on Ancestry. Which I’ve started building centered around the Diary of Llewellyn.
Some of them are labeled with year and teacher name. The last one even has an extensive list of names!
This one was not labeled but there is some math equations on the back. 😂
“Kindding Garden” Miss Burnett is the actual caption on the back of this picture.
The name on the back of this one is a bit difficult to read. I plan to do more research on Caldwell teachers and clarify this name.
No captions on this one but I do recognize George immediately.
This is the picture that has the whole list of names on the back. I am hoping to use Ancestry Networks and the facial searches to maybe identify more. Llewellyn’s good friend Helen Tice and Helen Steinhoff, sister of Willa Steinhoff, are also in the picture. Willa features heavily in the Diary of Llewellyn but is a few years younger then Llewellyn. Actually, what I’ve come to find since using Networks is that most of those mentioned in the diary are a few years younger than her. I knew before they were all members of the Epworth League. Which is a youth group in the Methodist Church for ages 18 to 35. At first I thought it strange that so many were younger then her but now I see it was the Church group that made them that much closer.
I’ve been having quite a bit of fun with the Networks because of all the pictures I have with no labels. Ancestry has some Caldwell yearbooks online, so it’s also been a big help. Unfortunately it’s not for the years Llewellyn attended, but I have some surprises even if they aren’t direct relatives! That’s for another entry though. 😂