Have patience with this page; it's probably slow to open because it has too many photos. It's also not well sorted yet, though it begins with photos described below, but when those are done, the rest have only the tiny squib I've added to each.
This one's family stuff. It begins with my dad's maternal grandmother, Anna Dittmar Fehler. Next is, standing, his maternal aunt Cora and, seated, her sister, his mom, Metha Methorah Fehler. She's in the 3rd. The 4th is from her marriage to Frank Riley Stovall. Fifth is her. Sixth is Aunt Cora with my dad and then, I think, his sister Marguarite. Then Cora again. My grandma was pretty loopy; after my granddad divorced her and abandoned the family (I think it was in the opposite order, though), Cora stepped in and raised the three kids. She had no children and didn't remarry after her husband died young. The next batch is from Fehler family gatherings in either Philomath or Corvallis.
The Fehlers and Dittmars were of German descent and both families arrived in America during colonial days and arrived in Philomath after the Civil War.
The Stovalls arrived in 1686, when Bartholomew came as an indentured servant. The family spread south from Virginia and then west in general, slaveholders most of the way.
There are several photos with annotation by my parents that have major family groups of mine from the last 100 years.
There's a school photo with an X over Red, my dad. The wagon shot is Red pulling his siblings, Marguarite and Ned. Then it's him pulling his sister with his brother beside him. The firewood was his business to help support the family. Next are the three kids, followed by Cora in her tricorn hat and Red when he graduated high school in 1932. Then he is pictured somewhere in Washington when he was a carnival boxer. The bike, The Green Hornet, was riden solo coast to coast by Marguarite during WWII.
The large family shot is Ruth's dad's family, the Freemans. They changed their last name from Gofreriner to Freeman after arriving from Russia. Missing are my mom's mom's dad and mom.—my great grand parents Flora and Jake Goldstone, She somehow got to Denver from Brody, Ukraine, after the civil war and married Jake there where he was a press mechanic at a newspaper. He used that skill to move the family to Portland in the 1890s where he retired from one of the big dailies as pressroom foreman in about 1940. They had nine children. But I've got no photos.
Anna Ditmar Fehler, my paternal great grandmother, Red's maternal grandmother.
Cora & Metha Fehler.
Metha Fehler
Charles and Frank Stovall and Anna Pearce and Metha Fehler, students of Philomath College. Frank and Metha are Red's parents and my grandparents.
Metha Fehler Stovall, my paternal grandmother.
My great aunt Cora Recotted with my dad.
Fehler Family, Corvallis, Oregon, abt 1927.
Fehlers, Stovalls, Dittmars.
Fehlers, Stovalls, Dittmars.
Fehlers, Stovalls, Dittmars.
Fehlers, Stovalls, Dittmars.
Red in 1st grade, Philomath.
Red, Ned, and Margarite in front of their house in Philomath.
Aunt Cora Fehler Recott in Albion, Washington, where she taught.
Margurite Stovall's bike The Green hornet at Lawrence Ave, Portland, 1944. 9315 miles across the US and Canada and back, but with the bike rigged to carry her kit.
Red at 25.
Freeman family. Ruth is sitting on her dad's lap in middle row.
Freeman photo desciprtion.
Henry, Gertie, & Ruth abt 1916.
Gertrude Goldstone, Grammy.
Ruth abt 1933.
Day after my conception, Camp Swift, Texas, 1945.
Dennis 1946
Red & Dennis.
At Devils Lake, 1947.
Brian, 1949, w Red just home from logging job.
My first fish.
Brian, Dennis, Eric.
Grammy Gertie.
Dennis HS graduation pic.
Hersh family: Aunt Belle, LeRoy, Jill, Nancy, & Linda.
Grammy Freeman's 80th. 4 cousins—Jill & Linda Hersh; Jan & Doug Freeman.
Christmas card in 1967.
Red at 10th Mt Div Reunion
Ruth
