Feeding the Chickens

Great Aunt Jennie and Great Uncle Arno. Feeding the chickens.

Jennie was 45 and Arno was 30 when they married in 1907. She had a son and daughter from her previous marriage. I'm assuming that their father died.

This photograph is most likely taken in Boulder, Montana where she and Arno resided until she died in 1937.

Her given name was Phoebe Jane and her twin sister was named Telith'a Anna (Annie). They were four years younger than my grandpa William. Their brother Benjamin died while a toddler.

Ten half siblings were born after their mother remarried - their father died from Typhoid while serving in The Civil War. I know there were other twins, and more childhood mortality. Bernetta, their mother, died at the age of 42.

William, Annie, and Jennie - probably in the 1920s



Arno, Jennie, and her lovely daughter Lulu.

Daughter Lulu in a hat. I recently learned that Lulu died in 1999 at the age of 105.

Jennie on her front porch reading the newspaper.

Jennie has been a popular name. My grandmother on my dad's side was a Jennie. My husbands grandmother was a Jennie. Even our middle daughter is a Jenni.

Well . . . all this because the chicken photo caught my eye this afternoon.