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.
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Thirty four years after the birth of yesterday’s cuddly baby girl, Mary Virginia Graham Elkins gave birth to a darling baby girl. On April 4, 1954 my first cousin, Marilyn Graham Elkins was born to Frank and Mary V. (Graham) Elkins.
Marilyn was the fifth and last grandchild of Mershell and Fannie (Turner) Graham.
Did Marilyn have other siblings, outside of Dee Dee & Barbara? Did y’all all live in Detroit growing up?
Marilyn is the youngest of the three siblings. No others. Yes, we all lived in Detroit and growing up we spent just about every summer Saturday and holiday at our grandparents. Playing in the yard most times or sometimes inside. Sort of like you and your cousins, for years we lived a few blocks from each other and went to the same elementary school.
Such a darling baby girl, indeed! Lovely curls <3
Yes she did have lovely curls. In fact, she still does 🙂
What a heart warming photo! Beautiful baby and mum.
Beautiful babies do run in my family. 🙂
True!
I like how you’re tying the family events to this month’s dates. Nice tie-in.
I enjoyed doing it so much!
What a beautiful family – you are so blessed to have all these photos!
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I am truly blessed to have so many photos from both sides of my family.
More lovely photos. I love the ones of the cousins together.
We spent so much time together when we were growing up and then mostly ended up in different places.
How lovely! Family stories can be such a delight. @samanthabwriter from
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Yes they can.
I’m loving all of these pictures and stories! That’s an adorable baby, and her mother looks happy, too.
My aunt does look happy. Really happy.