About James Grover
"Grove" Terwilliger, 1856-1929
Welcome to my first post about the Souvenirs Album put together by my maternal
greatgrandfather, Grove TERWILLIGER.
I hope you enjoy exploring the pages and items as I write about them over the coming months. It is in terrible shape, as you can see by the photo on the right - I don't want to worsen it's condition by handling it in the heat of summer. Currently, it is carefully put away in a relatively dry place.
I hope you enjoy exploring the pages and items as I write about them over the coming months. It is in terrible shape, as you can see by the photo on the right - I don't want to worsen it's condition by handling it in the heat of summer. Currently, it is carefully put away in a relatively dry place.
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| Grove TERWILLIGER |
Grove
TERWILLIGER, photo at left, was the first of 2 sons of James M. TERWILLIGERand
Harriet F. BUELL, and lived in Syracuse NY, Roselle NJ, and Manhatten, NY.
The photo shows Grove aged about 35-40 years old, I believe. His eyes appear quite light in this photo, so I might assume blue or blue-grey eyes.
Grove's 8-years' younger brother was Harry Reid Terwilliger, who also lived in New York. You'll find his marriage invitation as one of the cards in this album, along with many other friends and family members.
Grove's father, James M. TERWILLIGER (1825-1909), was active in politics, and the family appeared to live relatively well. Below and to the right is an undated photo of him, likely taken about 1880'ish. I am assuming that it is his signature in his own handwriting as well, on the bottom of the photo - Jas. Terwilliger. I have no idea where this photo came from - it was clearly removed from a stapled booklet at some point in time.
The photo shows Grove aged about 35-40 years old, I believe. His eyes appear quite light in this photo, so I might assume blue or blue-grey eyes.
Grove's 8-years' younger brother was Harry Reid Terwilliger, who also lived in New York. You'll find his marriage invitation as one of the cards in this album, along with many other friends and family members.
Grove's father, James M. TERWILLIGER (1825-1909), was active in politics, and the family appeared to live relatively well. Below and to the right is an undated photo of him, likely taken about 1880'ish. I am assuming that it is his signature in his own handwriting as well, on the bottom of the photo - Jas. Terwilliger. I have no idea where this photo came from - it was clearly removed from a stapled booklet at some point in time.
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| James M. TERWILLIGER |
By the time it came to me, more or less by accident, the Album was not in good shape. In addition, it had some interesting items shoved into pages any old way. Quite disheartening actually. On the other hand, I immediately struck gold - finding an obituary of an unknown person made me wonder how he might be related. He turned out to be Grove's wife's mother's father! ORMSBEE - not a very common surname, and therefore a wonderful clue.
With so many wonderful - and weird - items in the Souvenirs Album, I decided to itemize all the items with as much information as I could find, for each page. Enjoy the journey with me as I go through the Album, page by page, item by item.
My other blog - Twigs and Trees - contains more personal genealogy posts - do check out the list of family Surnames which may be found there, on the first post in May 2012.
Appetite is whetted.
ReplyDeleteLet's devour the pages.
It's a bit cooler this morning, so I'm pulling it out of the case...
DeleteCan't wait to read about the treasures you have found in the old album!
ReplyDeleteThanks Christine - I suspect I'll inadvertently find some more genealogical treasures as I go methodically through it.
DeleteI'm in!! Waiting for cooler weather and more treasures.
ReplyDeleteThanks Carol - I will be starting by tonight. I just can't wait!
DeleteWelcome to the geneabloggers community! Great blog, will follow with anticipation.
ReplyDeleteThanks Jeff - there are several posts so far... but it's going to take quite awhile to get all these pages itemized, researched, photographed, etc. Should be fun. Thanks for your comment.
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