"the stars' still millrace in the prairie night..."
THE IMAGES IN THIS COLLECTION ARE FROM AN ALBUM OF SNAPSHOTS WHICH BELONGED TO MY FATHER'S PARENTS. THEY SPAN THE TEN YEARS BEGINNING IN 1911, WHEN MY GRANDPARENTS WERE MARRIED, UNTIL THE FLOOD IN GREAT BEND, KANSAS, IN JUNE 1921. MOST OF THEM WERE TAKEN IN AND AROUND HOISINGTON, KANSAS. A FEW WERE TAKEN IN NEW FRANKLIN, MISSOURI, WHEN GRANDPA WORKED IN THE KATY ROUNDHOUSE. THE SNAPSHOTS SHOW THOSE PEOPLE'S LIFE AND CULTURE, A LIFE OF HARD WORK AND FAMILY. SOME OF THE IMAGES HAVE BEEN BRIGHTENED AND SHARPENED SLIGHTLY SO THE FACES CAN BE SEEN. FULL-SCREEN RECOMMENDED.
– Kenneth Tindall, October 1999.
Nettie Hadley Tindall and Charles Tindall, my Great-Grandparents, lived in Hoisington. They took this picture in the mirror.
Great-Grandpa was a locomotive engineer on the Missouri Pacific R.R.
"Three Babies"
Rollie Newton Tindall, my Grandfather, became a machinist in the "Katy" roundhouse in New Franklin, Missouri. Years later he was a machinist in the Kettleman Hills oilfields in California.
"Short and Sweet." Della Myrle Lovin was born in a sod dugout on the Kansas prairie.
Rollie and Della were married in Hoisington on 1 August, 1911.
"Horse legs." Della Lovin's father was a half-breed Indian.
"A City Bird on a Farm"
""Bear" Footed"
Kenneth Verlin Tindall, my father, was born in Hoisington 25 September 1913.
"It Isn't a Dog"
"A Kansas Coyote"
"Some Car"
"Wild and Wooly"
"Ray Bowler with a Rocky Mountain Deer"
"Mrs. Atick. New Franklin, Mo."
"Alice Lee"
"Some Pictures"
There's more where those came from.
