MALE FACES ON OUR SON'S ANCESTRAL TREE

 


Our son as a happy, carefree lad in his early 20s . . .

. . . all grown up with a wife & 3 grown children.

His paternal great grandfather, Harry Edgar Brasier, was a new car salesman who kept the family driving nice new cars.

His paternal grandfather, Francis Anthony (Tony) Hoffman, in 1944.  Tony was an aeronautical engineer.

Tony in 1960

Our son’s father, my husband, Tony’s son, in 1968 at our wedding . . .


. . . and today at age 86.

Our son’s maternal 4xs great grandfather, Col. Jotham Sewell Chase

His maternal 3xs great grandfather, Frederick William Taylor, M.D. was a doctor administering to gold miners in the field and also ran an apothecary shop in Sacramento, CA during the Gold Rush era.

His other maternal 3xs great grandfather, Jeffrey Smedley.  I have no idea what his line of work was.  He had four sons – Issac, John Kinsey, Jeffrey, and Charles.

His maternal great great grandfather, John Kinsey Smedley at age 23 or 24.  He was a naval engineer for the Union Navy during the Civil War, later working for the U.S. Post Office in Oakland and San Francisco, CA


J.K. Smedley at age 60

His maternal great grandfather, Frank Herbert Bradley in 1904, age 24.

and newly married in 1906.  He repaired watches for Shreve & Company Jewelers in San Francisco.

Our son’s maternal grandfather, Herbert Kinsey Bradley’s portrait in the University of California at Berkeley’s yearbook in 1935

and in 1938 trying out a moustache,

and in 1967 at age 54.  He was an auto insurance underwriter for Great American Insurance Company in San Francisco.

His other maternal great grandfather, Ira Edwin Whitney, was an artistic sign painter.

Our son, himself, is very artistic in several different fields and it’s really no surprise as there are artistic painters, creators, and arrangers on all sides of his ancestral background. J

:-> 

La Nightingail

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