Sitting On The Dock Of The Bay

The man in the middle is my grandfather, Ernest, and the girl on the left end would be my grandmother's sister, Clara, while the girl on the right end would be my grandmother's sister, Ruby.

Mary Reine Boothby

Mom when she was very young. Her sister, my aunt Jean, had a similar photo and my grandmother kept both of them on the dining room wall all the time I was growing up.

Coming Over From Germany

My great-grandfather, Ernst H. Sieder came over from Germany with his wife, Karoline, two sons, Ernst and Herman and a newborn daughter who died in Kansas before she was a year old. Three more daughters were born in Kansas. The photo of all five surviving children is a previous post below. They settled in Kansas in the 1880's. I believe this must have been taken in Germany before the first daughter was born.

Sieder Family From Kansas

This is the Sieder Family from Enterprise, KS in the 1890's. The oldest boy is my grandfather, Ernest G. Sieder. Herman H. Sieder was his brother and the girls were Emily, Hulda and Clara Maria.

Samuel Boothby

This is my mother's father, Samuel Boothby. He would not have been eighteen yet when he went off to France in WW1.

Dorothy and Herman Sieder

This is my father with his older sister around 1922. They lived in Flint, Michigan.