Sarah Elizabeth Allen & Children

Sarah Elizabeth Wilson Allen is my great grandmother. Sarah Allen Cornwell is my grandmother (mother of Alice Cornwell Kofoid, my mother). 

My Aunt Beth told me the following when she visited us in Albany Oregon in the 1980s.

Aunt Beth Carlson said that S.E.W. Allen was genteel, sedate
and tolerated no slang such as "gracious"! She was a moralist. Aunt Beth
remembers her saying "Pretty is as pretty does" when Aunt Beth, age 6, was
looking in a mirror. She said that she was "probably opinionated, like Aunt
Ettie". (Aunt Ettie was Charles Cornwell's sister. I met her once...stern and scary!)

 She and Aunt Helen collected bottles on the beach which they played with a lot.
 S.E.W.Allen threw them down the toilet. (That's before toilets flushed!)

She can remember when she was age 5, she was made to take a nap when she visited her grandmother. There was an earthquake and she rolled off the couch and her doll fell
on the floor and was broken.

 Family tradition: Sarah E Wilson Allen's family was related to President Wilson (probably not!)

 S.E.W.Allen moved to Santa Cruz Calif. and was cremated there.
Ashes spread in California. (according to Aunt Beth)

 

 

Back row: Sarah Allen Cornwell, Royce Allen

Middle Row: Carrie Allen Busenbark, Sarah Elizabeth Wilson Allen, Maria Allen Gifford

Front Row: Julia Allen Topping, Margaret Allen Lay





Grandmother, Sarah Elizabeth Allen; Daughter, Julia Allen Topping;
Mother, Fannie Allen Eckler; Daughter Elizabeth Ray Eckler (born: Feb 4, 1905, died June 10, 1905)

Sarah Elizabeth Allen
December 25, 1904
80 years old

Dolph's New Thumb

Dolph had his thumb joint reconstructed last Thursday. It was in a splint for a week, and yesterday they removed the splint and put it in a cast. He had a choice of about 10 colors. I thought that the hot pink would be nice, but he opted for blue. The cast will be on for 3 weeks and then he will do physical therapy to get it to work like a thumb again.  If you like the gory details of the surgery, you can see it at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jqOkBE-eHw

Dolph

This is a picture of Dolph with his handle bar mustache. It was taken between 1952 and 1956. 1956 is when he got out of the Navy.

 

 

 

This picture was taken after we were married. He was working at Graves Music, but I don't know if it was in the Albany or the Eugene store. I notice that he had added a few pounds since the Navy picture was taken!

More Slides...

This was taken of Karen and Eric when we lived on E. 24th Street in Albany (before 1970). We lived across the street from the grade school. I made Karen's dress. I made one like it for me, but there are no pictures of us together. That's probably because it looked better on Karen.

Another fish picture of May and Adolph. I notice that May caught the BIG fish and she looks pleased!

Karen & Colleen

Karen and her friend, Colleen Beggs. Taken about 1968 (second grade?) when we lived in Albany.

Fishing Runs In The Family!

 These were probably taken on one of our camping trips to a mountain lake...probably Detroit Lake...as that was a favorite camping spot for us.

We have lots of fishing pictures...with two granddads (and one grandma!) that liked nothing better than fishing, Eric definitely inherited the fishing gene. I don't see Karen out fishing a lot...she probably inherited her gene from me!

Big Fish!

 Adolph, May and Dolph after one of their deep sea fishing trips.
Adolph and May, after they bought the cabin at Seal Rock, went deep sea fishing almost every week. I think it cost $7 each to go. I went a few times, but it was a total loss of $7, because I don't really like to fish and ocean going boats aren't high on my list either! We ate a lot of salmon. They had most of it canned, but it was really good barbecued. I would appreciate it a lot more now than I did then.