Houghtaling Family Reunion (1907?)

Below are some family photographs from a Houghtaling Family Reunion ca. 1907. Identifications were made by Mary Hill during interviews with my father Stevan Arnold in 1988.



1 Frank Campbell
2 Pauline Carmichael
3 Jenny Houghtaling
4 Ollie Houghtaling
5 Art Houghtaling
7 Sidney Fry
8 Earl Campbell
10 Dick Houghtaling = Knonely Francis Houghtaling
12 Frank (Bill) Houghtaling
13 Willard Warren, Jr.
14 Winne Campbell Moffett
15 Daisy Houghtaling
16 Gertrude, Cecily's daughter
17 Irene Carmichael
18 Cate Clark
19 Bertha Houghtaling
20 Silvia Hinkson
23 Lottie Hinkson
25 mother of Fry brothers = ?
26 Mable Houghtaling Bidelman
27 Mable Houghtaling Bidelman's daughter, Mary Bidelman Nine
29 Nola Houghtaling
30 Theron Jay Houghtaling
32 Harry Jay Houghtaling
33 Ethel Hinkson Grayson
35 Cecily Houghtaling Knee
36 Lotttie Houghtaling
37 Cora Houghtaling
38 Mary Elizabeth (Bessy) Hinkson Edy
39 Marriette Houghtaling Campbell
42 Blanche Edy Warren (Bessy's daughter)
43 Blanche Warren (Bessy's grand-daughter)
44 Gertrude Hinkson Houghtaling
45 Helen Houghtaling
46 Willard Warren
47 Charlie Hinkson (Uncle Charlie)
48 William Ephraim Houghtaling
49 Willie Wilbur Houghtaling
50 Selina Hinkson
51 Charles Bidelman
52 Mary Bidelman (Mary Nine)
53 Harry Jay Houghtaling
54 Gladys Anderson

Grandma Mary Hill (Audio)

In 1988, Stevan Arnold recorded his grandmother, Mary Eslie Hill (1899-1996) talking about her family photographs and her memories of her family history. Mary was not the youngest of her siblings, but she lived the longest. I remember visiting her house in Iowa with my father the summer before I began graduate school (1990), and Mary was remarkably independent and a wonderful storyteller. She was still making quilts, and while they weren't as elaborate as the ones she had made in years past, they were better than any quilt I ever made. She also had a vast collection of hand bells and owl figurines, both of which she claimed she had started collecting by accident, almost as a joke. The apex of the collection was a small hand bell in the shape of an owl.

I am working on uploading a complete soundfile of the first session by father made with Mary. In the meantime, here is short clip of her describing the day her younger sister Helen was born in 1905.