For this year’s A to Z Challenge, I will be posting an event for that date involving someone in my family tree. Of course it will also involve the letter of the day. It may be a birth, a death, a christening, a journal entry, a letter or a newspaper article. If the entry is a news item, it will be transcribed immediately below. Click on photographs to enlarge in another window.
On April 28, 1929 Howard Graham’s first tooth appeared. Howard Alexander Graham was my mother’s youngest brother. He was named after my grandmother Fannie’s father, Howard Turner. Howard was born September 7, 1928, in the year following his older brother Mershell’s death by trauma after being run over by a truck on the way back to school. My grandparents felt that Howard had been sent to fill the space left by Mershell. Unfortunately he died of Scarlet Fever, exacerbated by Diabetes in 1932.
The only reason I have this xeroxed copy of a page from Howard’s baby book is that I needed an “X”. I had the tooth appearing on April 28, so I copied it and using the make-it-look-like a xerox function on my GIMP photo program, I made myself an “X” for the A to Z challenge.
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Other posts about Howard Graham
N – NINETEEN TWENTY EIGHT Howard Graham was born
Baby’s First Photograph – 1929
Howard Alexander Graham Death Certificate – 1932
Excellent memories
Howard was the only one with a baby book.
I’m just sitting here thinking about your grandparents and how hard it must have been to lose children so tragically.
It was. The whole family would have been different if they had lived.
Great way to tackle X.
I didn’t have any April x-rays. All I had was that tooth.
That’s a fun way to get the X post!
Are there even xeroxes any more?