Wordless Wednesday! May 2010

This is my BOYKIN-EDINBOROUGH *** Hubby's family

Saving the family history      ~     picture is probably  90+ yrs old, showing EIGHT of ten Children --  about 1915 starting on the back row... Chandler, OK?

1898            1900               1903                1907                      1909
Eliza            Robert            Pearl              Seewillow              Noble

17 yr             15 yr              12 yr               8  yr                       6 yr                      ?


1911        1874                           1905                  1872                                                              1913
Turner     Turner Boykin           Willie                 Jeannie Edenborough/Boykin                      Gladys
4 yr          41 yr                          (Buddy)10 yr     39 yr                                                             6 yr ?

Here's the lineage:  From Dad & Mom Boykins (b 1876 JN - Jeannie Edenborough married Turner Boykins b 1874):  Out of their ten+ offspring, there was b. 1903 - Pearl Boykins who married Roosevelt "Dimple" Lewis,

 thus  a daughter was b. 1930 - also named Pearl Lewis - who married Earl Kirk. The children of this couple is b. 1953 - Lawrence Kirk (my husband) and his sister JoAnn Cookie Adams b. 1954.

Lawrence's offspring: daughter is Lawry b. 1978, who has a daughter named Anayah (as well as son: Tony b 1982 whose son is Jalen Kirk b. 2005)

From Dad & Mom Boykins (1876 to 2008) tracing this lineage down to my granddaughter Anayah Shabazz (b 2008) :  this accounts for six generations spanning 132 years!  I think about how much I value family history... and cannot account for my direct lineage over the same time period for the Smith-Anderson-Sipuel family....  but it will come to pass!!!!