Tonight I was at my Mom's house looking at old photos, to photograph. I have a photography project I want to slowly begin working on. But, after looking through old photos for a while my Mom brought out a box of very old love letters written from her father to her mother in 1921 to 1922, they were 16 at the time. They got married in 1922. So here are the love letters and some photos of my Grandpa and Granny in the 1920s. I can't help but think of this song. I loved these, I never knew my Mom's parents.
Love letters and old photos...
The box that held the treasured love letters; almost 90 years old....
A photo of my Grandma Ethel Cody Willis in 1921. She was 16 years old.
The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread. ~Mother Teresa
Sam and Ethel 1925. They were married in 1922. My Mom was telling me about their Model T breaking down on the way to California.
"I run over a chicken coming home and killed it dead and I am afraid to go back to Hugo" this was my favorite letter of the bunch!
My Granny Willis in 1927, she was 22 years old in this photo.
"I just don't think you love me as you said you did I just believe you love some other boy don't you"
Love is not consolation. It is light. ~Friedrich Nietzsche
"Darling don't let Tink beat my time. I hurd he said he was going to but I don't believe you would would you." Grandpa spent a lot of time worrying about this Tink guy, I'm glad I didn't have a Grandpa Tink in my family.
Valliant Oklahoma, 2/23/22 Box #262 Miss Ethel Cody, My dearest one will write you a few lines as I have got the blues tonight . I have been studying all evening about you wondering if you were just joking about sending me that letter when I was up there I didn't get it Saturday.."
My Grandpa in the 20s.
"I believe you were just joking when you said you loved me was you kid"
"From the one that loves you best and always will"
My Granny and Grandpa in the late 60s.
Awwww. The angst made me misty, as I am apart from my beloved at this time... against our wishes, but it is what it is. When I was a teenager, I came upon my parents' love letters to each other during the time my dad was in the Marines. It was incredibly enlightening. My dad was the impulsive romantic one, and my mom was more cautious. And yet personality wise my dad is very quiet, whereas Mom was outgoing. I think I'm more like my dad that way.
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This is my top post for 2011. Also my favorite one.
Posted by: Joy | Monday, January 02, 2012 at 11:41 PM
So beautiful! I wish I had a bunch of old love letters. I just love old letters and photos. Everything old. It's just so much beauty in it!
Posted by: Anniken | Friday, July 13, 2012 at 02:25 PM