Sepia Saturday #118: Going Out in Drain, Oregon

This week's Sepia Saturday theme is "Going Out", so I tailored mine to Going Out in Drain, Oregon.  Here are some neat old photos of my family members that were mostly taken around the Drain area.

Oregon Gifts of Comfort and Joy ~ Kathy Matthews

 Oregon Gifts of Comfort and Joy ~ Kathy Matthews

"Uncle Henry Hedrick and Aunt Gertrude Applegate Hedrick"

Uncle Henry was the eldest of the John and Louisa (Jackson) Hedrick's children.  The back of the picture says that Henry and Gertrude Hedrick's children are: Nelly, Mabel, Eva (Evelyn), Ray, Ada, Gertrude and Lula.

This house is located right in Drain, and later on Ben, Litha and their youngest son Homer moved into it.  Uncle Homer lived there until he died in the 1980's.   

 Oregon Gifts of Comfort and Joy ~ Kathy Matthews

 "John and Florence Craig"

These two photos were taken in Iowa, not in Drain.  These Craigs are most likely extended cousins of my Great-Grandmother Maude Craig Traylor Bennett.

 Oregon Gifts of Comfort and Joy ~ Kathy Matthews

 Oregon Gifts of Comfort and Joy ~ Kathy Matthews

"The Craigs"

I appreciate how neatly Florence carefully labled this small 2" x 3" photo.  I had to laugh at John Craig, in the middle center; it looks like he is saying, "Gee, I could have had a V-8!" 

 Oregon Gifts of Comfort and Joy ~ Kathy Matthews

Aunt Signa (Woods) Hedrick (Uncle John's wife)
stands next to her inlaws, 
Litha (Letsom) Hedrick and Ben Hedrick 

(my great-grandparents).

 Oregon Gifts of Comfort and Joy ~ Kathy Matthews

My Aunt Mardelle, my mom, Jody, and 

Great-Grandpa Ben holding my Aunt Sondy.

 Oregon Gifts of Comfort and Joy ~ Kathy Matthews

Mrs. Hazel Woods, Aunt Signa's mother, 
with my Great-Grandma Litha (Letsom) Hedrick.

 

 Oregon Gifts of Comfort and Joy ~ Kathy Matthews

It sounds like these two ladies would be pretty mad at me for putting this picture on the internet!  The back of the photo says, "This is all I could find and I laughed so I thot I would send it to you.  Don't put it on your dresser.  I wonder where we are and I know it has been twenty years since I had that black dress.  Awful cold here Dec 11.  I will not put any name on this."  

We still don't know who the lady in the black dress is, but the one in the white dress is my Great-Grandma Litha (Letsom) Hedrick, a bit heavier in this photo than in the others.

 Oregon Gifts of Comfort and Joy ~ Kathy Matthews

 Oregon Gifts of Comfort and Joy ~ Kathy Matthews

Mom and I don't know who these ladies are, but they were in the Letsom Letters Collection, and they looked like they were dressed up and ready to go out!  To me, they look like Traylor women, 
but we still need to pin it down.

 Oregon Gifts of Comfort and Joy ~ Kathy Matthews

I hope that you guys got as much as a kick out of this post as I did!  Please make sure to check out my second post this week, "On To Oregon Cavalade, April - August 1959".   (It is a short one, so don't worry!)


~ Kathy M.


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