Albert “Pete” Silver and his sisters, Nellie Silver (far left) and Helen Clark (middle), were photographed in the South Rumford barn yard of Wallace and Mary Clark, their parents. It must have been chilly enough for sweaters as … Continue reading →
This Valentine’s Day post honors Samuel Silver and Jemima Kimball, who were married on this day, just 685 years ago. They are 7th great-grandparents to my children and their many cousins in our 4Family Cummings line. According to the Amesbury, … Continue reading →
Calvin Cummings died on 1 Sep 1864 in a Civil War hospital of illness, not a wound, and was then buried on the same day in the military cemetery in Alexandria, Virginia. He served as a private in Company … Continue reading →
I know very little about Earl O. Cummings, my husband’s maternal grandfather. He and his wife, Nellie Frances Silver, begin the Cummings ancestral line within this genealogy. Follow this link to the Cummings ancestral line.With few on-the-spot stories, I’ll turn … Continue reading →
This photo comes from the digital files of Ruth May (Cummings) Sorofman, which she has so generously shared with all of her family. Here, she is shown with her older brother and sister, Arthur Joel and Eleanor Frances. Arthur … Continue reading →
Arthur and Ruth (Hanscom) Cummings posed in front of their garage for this photograph in the late summer of 1973. They had just spent the afternoon showing their nephew and his new wife (myself) around their farm. They called their spread Oleo … Continue reading →