Happy birthday cancer sun sign Alta Maria FALLS (July 10, 1864 Illinois-Oct. 13, 1934 McDonald County, Missouri; buried Anderson Cemetery, Anderson, McDonald County, Missouri).
Great-grandma Alta died before I was born. I wish I had family stories with which to place her in my mind, but I never even knew her name ’til I began researching genealogy in the mid- to late-1990s.Alta was the wife of my great-gramp Granville Smith GREGER (Jan. 20, 1864 Vandalia, Owen County, Indiana – Oct. 17, 1961 Kansas; Anderson Cemetery), who I did meet at about age three or four on a visit to his Missouri farm but I can’t pull up a picture.
Both Great-Grandma Alta & Great-Grampa Granville are pictured in the circa 1930 photograph below — the two older folks on either side of the picture — and it’s such a photo that I do think of Grandma Alta as “the old lady in the watermelon photo.” 😉
1. Family photo in possession of blog author.