FAMILY TREE

By Laura Velli

We Start Out Small Inside Our Mothers With Care,

Then We’re Born Into The Nice Clean Air.

Our Mother And Father Are First To Greet Us.

Then Grandma and Grandpa Show Up To Meet Us.

As the Family Gathers And Describe All Our Traits.

My Genealogy Journey Becomes Part Of My Fate.

As I Grow And Learn, I Trace All The Names.

Of Those Faces That Love Me And Played All My Games.

It’s A Family Quest, A Journey Of Mine.

It’s The Past I Seek, Cause It Comforts My Mind.

It’s My Family Trees That Are Most Interesting To Me.

From The Past To The Present, We All Come To Be.

April 16, 2009

Henry Laverne "Vern" Harrington

This is my father in his youth. I had never seen these photographs until a week ago. I apologize for the clarity, as I had to take pictures of the pictures. The photos are 90 - 95 years of age and come from an old album that was aged and weather beaten. According to to inscription of the cover of the album, this was a collection of photos that my fathers sister (Esther) put together for her mother, my Grandmother Baker-Harrington.

Henry Laverne "Vern" Harrington
August 13, 1912 ~ September 8, 1990

Dad Is On The Horse to the Left
His Little Brother, (Rolland) On The Horse To The Right
Grandmother Baker-Harrington Holding Rolland On Horse
Two Remaining Boys Were Neighborhood Friends
1918

"Vern" Harrington ~ 1914

Dad riding A Horse By the Name Daisy 1919
Years Later, With All the Horses That We Owned, My Mother
Had One Favorite Horse. She Was Not for Sale And Her Name
Was "Daisy", I Can Only Assume Named After This Horse Of His Youth.

1920
Left to Right
Children Of
Henry Philo "Ten" and Ella Belle Baker-Harrington

"Vern" Harrington ~ Sister Esther Harrington (1914) ~ Sister Louise Harrington (1916)
and
Brother Rolland Harrington (1917)
Dog's Name Was "Trixie"

Brother Ronald Ralph Harrington (1921)
(Not Born When Picture Was Taken

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