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My Maternal Grandfather

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The wife was digging through some boxes today and ran across this picture of my Maternal Grandfather. I wanted to scan it, so took the back off the frame to remove the picture and found that my mother had written the following on the back of the picture:

Jean Harold Wood at about age 20.
Born Nov 13, 1896 at Wind Ridge PA
Parents were Morgan and Josephine "Josie" ("nee" Regar) Wood.
He received his BE degree from Bethany College (WVa) in May of 1917.
The US got into WWI in 1917. Jean was inducted into the Army in June 1917.
Jean was a Sergeant and fought in the battle of the Argonne in France.
He received Masters in Education after he married.
He was a member of Phi Beta Kapa at WVU
He was a high school principle at Littleton High from 1919 to 1931
He was principal at Roosevelt Wilson High, Clarksburg WVa from 1931 to 1952?
Married Edna Ellen Long, March 21, 1921

Jean Wood003.jpg

Sadly, Granddad Jean suffered a massive stroke before I was born and I only knew him as a wheelchair-bound man who could barely speak. I'm told he had a photographic memory (something I know for certain I did not inherit).
 
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Digging around on the internet, found a picture of my Grand Dad with his WWI unit, Battery E 314th Field Artillery. He's bottom row-center, holding the flag (#6 from left)

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Jean Wood Grave.jpg
 
Must have sent a shiver down your spine, when you saw your Mothers words, after all this time.
 
GTP1960 said:
Must have sent a shiver down your spine, when you saw your Mothers words, after all this time.
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Knew we had the picture in the frame for years, but never knew what Mom had written on the back.
 
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It is a great pity more photo do not have that kind of information on them. So many old photos are blank and nobody remembers who the person was. We have several like that at home and would love to know the story.

David
 
My Mother has a box full of photos she inherited from my grandfather. Some of them are very old probably late 1800s (one of them a picture of an old man in a stovepipe hat (think Abe Lincoln)) but unfortunately very few of them have any names. We assume they are my ancestors but my grandfather had a rather interesting and chequered history so he may have just acquired them from somewhere.
 
In my Father's last year (age 90), when dementia had drastically restricted his quality of life.
He found countless hours of entertainment by looking over his old navy photo's.
He could not tell you what he had for breakfast, but he could identify everyone on his DE ship from '42.
 
I've been fooling about at Ancestry.com now for nearly a year. I had pretty good family tree created from family members in the know, but it exploded to maybe 4 times the size I had. The resources there are amazing.
 
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Boink said:
I've been fooling about at Ancestry.com now for nearly a year. I hate a pretty good family tree created from family members in the know, but it exploded to maybe 4 times the size I had. The resources there are amazing.
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Why do you hate it?
 
LOL!!! Typo. Will fix. It was supposed to "had." Thanks for catching that. I suppose we can delete this post an yours before it.
 
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