Friday, January 11, 2013

Narcissa Lorena McMurrain Brown & Six Sons

'Mother Brown' or 'N.L. Brown' is featured in these two layouts.  The snapshots of her with her sons were taken on July 5, 1918, before her son Fred (later known as 'Jack') left to go overseas.  While he was in France, in January 1919, Narcissa passed away, during the flu epidemic; these are the last photos of all six boys with their mother:

Just click on the layout, and you'll be able to see it in a 'readable' size.  Again, I've done these layouts using a kit (Family Historian from Forget-Me-Nots by Theresa Lindamood [url=http://www.heritagescrap.com/shop/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=110_174&products_id=3061]FamilyHistorian[/url]) which can be found at Heritage Scrap.

May Ludwig Brown - Dolls & Bookkeeping!

As a young lady, May was in no hurry to grow up; but she must have done well in school, to have been studying bookkeeping when she was only 13 years old.  She attended this school and took this course of study in the spring of 1904, before they moved from Pittsburgh to Los Angeles.  She worked as a bookkeeper before she and Walter Blanchard Brown were married.
She treasured her beautiful china doll all her life, and had a new wig made for it (with her own hair) when I was a young girl.

Just click on the layout, and you'll be able to see it in a 'readable' size.  I've done these layouts using a kit (Family Historian from Forget-Me-Nots by Theresa Lindamood
[url=http://www.heritagescrap.com/shop/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=110_174&products_id=3061]FamilyHistorian[/url]) which can be found at Heritage Scrap.