Family Ties......

These are my paternal Great Grandparents. John and Mary Ann Frazier. The picture above was taken just around the turn of the 20th century,not long after they were married. I never met them ,not even as a baby because they were deceased before my birth,but I will always remember the "Love Story" that was told to me about this couple. While traveling to a relatives home in their later years,they were involved in a car accident,taken to the hospital, they were placed in the same room! Their beds side by side! John received some major injuries, which prove to be fatal. Mary only had minor injuries and should have went on and lived for more years,but after her beloved passed on she gave up her will to live and died within the half hour.
God chose not to separate this loving couple,even in death,but to bring them both home to him on the very same day!

John and Mary Ann

 Not long before the accident!

Mary Ann

Their Grave Stone

Their daughter, Lillian was my father's mother. Here she is with all her children. My daddy is the little boy on the left at the front. My daddy's father died when he was three,and my grandmother raised her children on her own,during the great depression times, until my dad was about 12,when she married my step grandfather, Raymond Judge. Granddaddy Judge was a loving man to his children, and grandchildren. I have fond memories of him.

Grandma and Granddaddy Judge

Grandma always said granddaddy favored James Arness that played as Marshal Dillion on Gunsmoke :)

Grandma

Grandma,Granddaddy,their children and grandchildren  ,Mother's Day 1964

I am the little girl sitting in the front,holding my baby brother!
This family has multiplied many times over since this above picture was taken,too many descendants to count. All started from that wonderful love story of two lives joined together,that truly became one,tying together many lives into one big family!