Entwistle Family

Entwistle Family, a photo by midgefrazel on Flickr.

 Lovely Summer Day

This is James Entwistle but we are not sure who the older people are in this photo or where it was taken. 

The blooming shrub behind is amazing so it must be summer. One photo is labelled July 1938 and the other August 1938.


I have searched for a family connected to this one and I may have found one.


For now, we will leave the Aunt Jane and Uncle Jim in peace until I find out more.

Watermelon Fest

Watermelon Fest, a photo by midgefrazel on Flickr.

Watermelon Fest!

My husband's Aunt Jane with her friends eating watermelon.  Isn't this a great photo?

James H. Entwistle Dies

James H. Entwistle Dies, a photo by midgefrazel on Flickr.

James H. ENTWISTLE, husband of my husband's Aunt Jane CRAIG Entwistle died 17 Jun 1953 while out delivering milk to commercial businesses.

Notice how detailed this obituary is! This type of information about the death itself is not commonly found in newspaper obituaries today. 


Since my husband was a little boy when this uncle died, this is the most information we have about him. I did find out at Aunt Jane's calling hours that there are quite a few living members of this family. My mother-in-law told them that she had sheet music for his piano that her sister kept and did they want it?

Upon my engagement in 1971, I asked each woman in my future husband's family how they would like their invitation addressed. Much to my surprise, Aunt Jane started to cry when I suggested that she, as a widow, should have her name as Mrs. James H. Entwistle. I was SO sure that she was a recent widow!

My future mother-in-law stepped in and said to address it with her name and not her husband's as he died so long ago. She told me not to worry about it because Aunt Jane always cried when her  husband's name was mentioned.

As you can see by this obituary, his date of birth and his parent's names are listed. He was an Odd Fellow and a Mason.

Teachable moment: Detailed obituaries are full of information to be verified but they are good for finding out where to begin with your search.

 

Entwistle Gravestone

Entwistle Gravestone, a photo by midgefrazel on Flickr.

Oak Grove Cemetery, Fall River, Bristol, MA

Much to our surprise, this black and white photo (dated 1954) of a gravestone was found in the pile of unsorted photos of my husband's family.

This is the gravestone of my husband's Aunt Jane E. Craig and her husband James H. Entwistle. Jane was my mother-in-law's oldest sibling. When she died at the age of almost 102, we helped with her funeral and her burial. It was my first ride in a limo.

This photo makes this area of the graveyard look empty. I can assure you that there is NO empty space around this gravestone. When we stood there in the rain, I wished I could take a photograph of both sides of the stone. I need to go back to this massive cemetery in Fall River, Massachusetts and find the gravestones of my mother-in-law's family. It is really not that far away. 

While building her page at my tree at Ancestry.com, I thought how amazing it is to live to be almost 102. I know that her photo collection has been mixed in my the rest of my husband's family photos so I have begun organizing and scanning them. It is best to start with Aunt Jane. As the oldest child, she told us stories that no one else can. This is the photo that was on display at her service.