Most of us have things we treasure that belonged to our Father or Mother, and then we have things that have been handed down through the years and kept in the families such as things that were bought or handmade.This site is dedicated to those ancestors that passed things that meant a lot to them through the years. To perserve them even more Ann and I have created this page to keep the memory alive.
If you have a family treasure that you would like to share with us, please send a picture along with a story that you can share about the treasure to Ann (Jobe) Brown or Freida Wells .
Baby blanket which Freida's paternal grandmother had specially made. Below is an enlarged view of one of the dolls on the blanket.
My paternal grandmother Ruth Marie (Higdon) Null had it made for me. I got it when I was 3 months old. November 1949.
Frieda's mother made this tiara for her for Easter 1958. Photo below, taken in Sedan, KS outside the apartment house where they lived. As you can see she was all dressed up for church.
My dolls from childhood. The big Dutch doll, below, my grandfather Ed Puckett bought me when I was about 4 years old.
Hadwriting book that Freida learned from in school, it is not her but one like it, the date in the book is 1953
This Ruler was used by Freida's mother, Mary Alice, wheh she was in school. It was then passed on to her niece, Pat Howe, and later on to Freida. Their names can be seen etched on the back of the ruler.
I found this bottle while cleaning at my Mother's and written on it was alcohol bottle of Ed Puckett. I also found a glass frog. When I told her about the frog she said "Yes, that was Mother's". For those of you who do not know what a frog is, it is placed in vases or bowls and used to arrange flowers.
Every since I can remember my Grandmother has had this ceramic Black Panther. They were massed produced in the 1940's, but not all had this jeweled collar round their necks. There was also a gold chain that went from the neck down around the front paw, but it has since broke. When I was 8 years old, I ask my Grandmother when she was gone could I have her black cat. When she made out her Will, in it was this "To my granddaughter Freida Marie Null I leave my Black Panther." I have had it this do this day. She died in 1964 and it sets on a coffee table that Leon my husband made in school.
My brother and I grew up with antiques in the entire house and I guess that is why I love them so much today. I have an Antique secretary bookcase desk that my Mother gave me, they bought at an auction, two antique stacking book cases, treadle sewing machine, a large antique trunk dated 1869 on the inside, and a waterfall bedroom furniture that belonged to my paternal grandmother. The more I find the better. We had wind up clocks in every room, and one year the folks gave my brother and I clocks of our own and we both still have them. This is mine. It no longer runs, but is still pretty and I keep in on the hutch in my dining room.
"When I was a little girl, a lady that owned an antique shop that my Mother knew gave me two of these salt dishes and I have had them ever since. That is the Swan that has it own spoon, and the round one in the front. The other's I bought in an antique shop in Marysville, Mo. that I like to go to when we travel there for Leon's family reunion."
Sedan High School - Sedan, KS
When Leon was in school he like most young men took woodworking class. His mother had found a coffee table in I belive it was the Sears and Roebuck catalog that she really liked, so she tore the picture out and ask him if he could build her one and so he took the picture to school and he and his shop teacher Charles Downing did. She had it from the time he built it until the mid 1970's when she gave it to us along with the cedar chest he also built.
The beer stein is from Germany and is 3 liters. Leon brought it home in 1959 when he came home from the Army.
