Please see Acknowledgments listed below due to space.
A baby photo of Pearl Claypool(e), from the photo album of Annie Elizabeth (Bowser) Claypoole.
Pearl Blanche Claypoole (Jan. 24, 1903 - ) was the eldest child who survived infancy of Alexander Claypoole and Laura E. (nee' Bowser) Claypoole. Pearl was married to John H. Boyd
My thanks to my cousin Lois Welton Morrison for access to the photo album.
I am going to begin a series of posts over at my other blog
The Digital Annex - each post will be a scan of the 1948 History of Union Baptist Church in Cadogan, PA. "Old Union" is the church founded by James Claypoole of Armstrong County. I'm posting it there because it has tie-in's to many other local family and history issues, but it is of great importance for the descendants of James Claypoole.
Here is a photo of (I believe) Alexander Claypoole's children taken around 1910 or 1915. This was in my great-grandmother, Annie Elizabeth Bowser Claypoole's photo album. Perhaps someone could help in naming the children and provide a more exact date. This is on an unmailed and undated photo-postcard.
Acknowledgments
This will be far too brief to begin with, so please forgive me if I ommitt anyone or anything, but there are really too many, but I wanted to thank those who were first or foremost in the process that lead to the creation of this blog.
First my Mother, Fay Anne, who opened my eyes to the richness of our family history, and my father James who ensured that I could proceed down this path.
My grandparents Merle and Alice who personified the good old ways.
My Aunts: Judy, Shirley and Nancy for helping and sharing at all times.
My great Aunts and Uncles, especially Dorothy, Vern, and Beatty without whom so much information would have been lost.
The congregation of Franklin Union Baptist, who opened their attics, minds, and hearts to me.
To Evelyn Claypoole Bracken without whom we could hardly proceed into the past at all (or perhaps receded?!).
To the many cousins who share so often so much.
And most recently and most especially to Barry Chapman of Tasmania, Australia and Kathie Young, who have together resolved something that had truly begun to puzzle me, and whose excellant research is summarized on the Claypoole Family website. And to my sister Erin, who helped stoke the fires of memory.
I will add and update specific thanks and acknowledgments in the places where they are most appropriate. Especially for contributions to original research. I hope to properly credit all researchers original work, and/or to thank those who have allowed me to see and share historical sources whether they are stories, documents, or artifacts.
Also I hope to properly list and acknowledge any secondary sources of information, so that others may check, rethink, verify, and explore the threads of this story.
Please alert me to any omissions, mistakes, broken internet links, or errors of any kind. You may do so in the comments sections or at a new email address I hope to create just for this website.
Cheers!
