Our mother recalls that her first planned meeting with the Sandford family at the Ontario homestead had to be postponed because of the death of our father’s grandmother. Our great grandmother Mabel Tuttle Swan died in October 1951 at age 85. Had our mother met Mattie Swan, there is a small possibility that they couldContinue reading “An Early Crossing of Paths Between The Swan and Sechler Families”
Monthly Archives: February 2021
Joe’s Family Provides a Business Advertising Boost
Before concluding that our grandfather Joe Sandford was always a completely proper banker and businessman, we should consider an advertisement found in the Pomona Progress Bulletin in May 1929. Somewhere along the line Joe began selling insurance as a sideline to his job as President of the Pomona Commercial and Savings Bank. In 1929, Joe’sContinue reading “Joe’s Family Provides a Business Advertising Boost”
Linked Memories: Traces of George and Laura Sechler
Can we find anything in our present memories that links us back to the life of our great grandfather George Sechler, who died at age 33 in 1907 in the line of duty as a New York City police officer? This is no easy task–his wife, Laura, apparently spoke very little about her husband toContinue reading “Linked Memories: Traces of George and Laura Sechler”
Linked Memories: Two Generations, Two Double Lives
The combined evidence on the lives of our great grandfather James Louis Hynes and his son, our grandfather, James Gordon Hynes is abundant, decisive and powerful–they were astoundingly alike in their strengths and, sadly, their faults. We can learn much about each of them from the other. On the surface, both men were successful BaptistContinue reading “Linked Memories: Two Generations, Two Double Lives”
Bridging the Silences 