Recently came across these photos of old family members when I visited my aunt.
My Great Great Aunt (Top), Great Grandmother w/ my late Great Aunt Cookie in her hands. (Bottom)
My Great Great Aunt apparently practiced voodoo.
My Great Grandmother apparently used to knit everyone's clothes.
Another Great Great Aunt.
She was one of the first women to cover Jet Magazine.
His story is very interesting. He was the first from my mom's maternal side of the family to migrate to San Francisco in 1939. He apparently hitchhiked his way from Lafayette, Louisiana. He spoke Cajun French (as well as the two women at top) and his english was very broken. When he got here he worked as a construction worker and eventually opened a BBQ Restaurant called Hickory Pit in the Fillmore. He was the third richest black man in San Francisco in the 1940s and owned 6 victorians throughout the city where various family members who came from Louisiana stayed. According to my aunt, the woman who he married was poisoning him. Apparently, my Great Great aunt (the one was into voodoo) right before he died informed the family that his wife was poisoning him, but no one believed her. The next week he was dead and she had taken everything.
My Grandmas (my mom's mom) as a child.
My Grandpa (My mom's father) as a child with some cousins.
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