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| Two of my great-great-grandfather George Merriman's sisters: Lucinda Merriman (left) and Mollie Merriman (right), circa 1867, Jacksonville, Oregon. Courtesy Southern Oregon Historical Society |
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| My great-great-grandfather Oscar Wadleigh at about 5 years old, circa 1870. He is sporting what was apparently fashionable dress for little boys. Sanbornton, New Hampshire. |
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| Mary J. Halliburton, the niece of my great-great-great-grandmother Elizabeth Halliburton Current. Photo taken in about 1875 in Clarksville, Tennessee. Mary died from yellow fever in 1878 at the age of 9 along with all of her siblings. Photo from Barbara Wentz via findagrave.com |
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| Three of my great-grandmother Vera Merriman's siblings: Thomas Merriman (left), George Merriman (middle) and May Merriman (right). Photo taken circa 1888, Medford, Oregon. |
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| Two of my great-grandfather Benjamin Plymale's sisters: Marie Plymale (left) and Emaline Plymale (right), circa 1893, Jacksonville, Oregon. Courtesy Southern Oregon Historical Society. |
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| My great-grandfather Neil Bixby, circa 1898, Garden City, Minnesota. |
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| Three children of Fred Wadleigh, my great-great-grandfather's brother: Theodore Wadleigh (left), Ruth Wadleigh (center), Winthrop Wadleigh (right), circa 1906, Milford, New Hampshire. |
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| My great-grandfather's niece Arline Bixby, circa 1918, Minnesota. Courtesy Debra McEachern. |
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| My grandfather's brother Eric Wadleigh (right) and his cousin Harry Dragoo (left), circa 1922, Indianapolis, Indiana. |
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| Left to right: Keith Bixby (my grandmother's cousin), Evelyn Bixby (my grandmother's sister), Shirley Bixby (my grandmother's sister), Deane Bixby (my grandmother's brother), circa 1928, Portland, Oregon. |
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| My grandmother Bettye Brown, circa 1930, unknown location. |
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| My grandfather Paul Wadleigh, circa 1933, Indianapolis, Indiana. |
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| My grandmother Patricia Bixby (bottom right) and her siblings (Evelyn, Shirley and Deane, in back) and cousins (Keith and Dennis Bixby, front), circa 1933, Portland, Oregon. |
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| My mom's birthday in 1956, Seattle, Washington. Left to right: George Plymale, Margaret Brown, Tracy Brown, Barbara Plymale, Catherine Plymale. |
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| My dad and his siblings and cousins at their grandparents' house for Christmas, apparently making a gingerbread house, late 1950's, Indianapolis, Indiana. |
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| My cousins Deana Plymale and Ira Wilks, 1981, Woodinville, Washington. |
