~ The Family Album ~

Great great grandfather Ralph Owen, who emigrated from England to Trenton, NJ
and served as a private in the Union Army from 1861 to 1863.

Great grandmother Elizabeth Owen Gibbon. Family lore has it that her
father Ralph carried this portrait with him throughout the war.

My maternal grandparents Isabel Wood and Hermann Buri with their four children,
Ralph, Isabel, Herman and baby Maidie (Marion), my mother. Summer 1917.

My mother Marion Clara Buri Kumpf in about 1921 when she would
have been four or five years old. The photo was taken at the spring of the
house where I now reside, and which was then the home of
Alexander Sinclair and his family.

The Buri family homestead, my maternal grandparents home, as it appeared in the 1920's.

~ Maidie ~