Waller Family Reunion 1935 at
Uncle Alonza’s
The family of Benjamin Franklin
Waller and Harriet Catherine Hunt came together Sunday, June 23, 1935. Ben had
died in 1932, Kath in 1934, and the firstborn, James, son of Ben by his first
wife had died earlier in 1935. Uncle Alonza and family lives in the home place
and none of the half relatives are pictured.
These pictures of the reunion were
in my mother’s album. Mom’s cousin, Beatrice Waller Jordan, told me she
remembers when the pictures were taken. She did identify most of the people in
the pictures. Beatrice was born in 1922 and I showed her the pictures in spring
2001.
The six children of Ben and Cath:
Twins Ocie and Otis, Sue, Lemuel, Alonza, and Ora.
A collection of cousins: unmarried
grandchildren of Ben and Cath
Seated: Margie, Marvin, Arlene,
Geraldine, Curtis, and Winfrey.
Standing: Thomas, Dorothy,
Katherine, Iris, Irma, Shirley, Rebecca, and Beatrice.
Several more grandchildren are yet
to be born.
Missing are married grandchildren
Vivian, Harry, Oris, and Raymond.
Also missing is baby Gwendolyn,
not old enough to sit in a chair.
Four married children of Ben F and
Cath
Standing: Ocie holding son Marvin and
wife Lillie, Lota and Alonza
Sitting: Gracie and Otis, Lemuel
and Margaret, my grandparents