This picture was made in the 50's. It is of my grandmother and my uncle. Her name is Sarah Alice Viana Hennigan. since she was born in 1889, she would have been in her sixties. She died in 1969 five days after she turned 80. I was probably only about 2-5 when this was taken, so I have never seen any pictures of her where she looked any different, no does my memories of her vary. She always had an apron on, she always braided her hair and then wrapped the braid around her head, or knotted the braid at the nape of her neck in the back. I'm thinking also that the house in the background was theirs also. The porch was eventually enclosed to make a kitchen. It was just a one room house with a front and back porch (both porches were later enclosed to make a kitchen in the front and a bathroom on half of the back porch) I remember, that I would sweep the front dirt yard - there was no grass. If they grew anything, it was vegetables and some flowers. We would rake the yard, then sweep it clean to where the dirt was hard-packed. Funny how memories are, huh?
This is a picture of her with two of my first cousins and the one on the left was born in 1940....so one can kind of guess that this picture was made say in 1944-1946?
I haven't yet found a picture of my Grandfather Hennigan, but I do remember him. He died, I think in 1965 (I think....I have it written in records, but don't want to look it up right now )


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