Climbing the Branches of My Family Tree: WONDERFUL WEDNESDAY'S PHOTOS

My Adventure Through Our Family Tree Branches

For over 50 years my Dad researched both his and my Mom's family tree branches - and loved every minute of it! Trying to fulfill the promise I made him the last month of his life, I have spent the past four years continuing where he left off - finding out about all the many family members who came before us, from the many branches of our family trees. The histories will still be published as my Dad always wanted. But what he wanted most was to share the stories of the people who came before us - the places they lived, the cultures of the times, the families they created, and the circumstances - good and bad - that would one day lead to us, their descendants. These are the stories of my Mom's families. . . .

Wednesday, August 24, 2011

WONDERFUL WEDNESDAY'S PHOTOS - 1906 Honeymoon Sightseeing

Harry & Pearl Flemming (3rd row from right, first two in seat)
Honeymoon in Washington, D.C.
April 1906
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My great-Grandfather, Harry Clinton Flemming, married my great-Grandmother, Pearl Alphonsine Horst, at St. Paul's Cathedral in Birmingham, Alabama, on April 6, 1906. She was 21 and he was 28. For their honeymoon, the couple went to Washington, D.C.. As seen in this photograph, they took a sightseeing tour of the city - the United States Capitol building can be seen in the background (right).

When they returned from their honeymoon, the couple settled in Birmingham. Harry was Trainmaster at the Alabama Great Southern Railroad and worked with his family at the moving company his father Charles Flemming (1854-1932) had started in the city - Charlie's Transfer Company. The couple went on to have eight children.