This is the second in a series on the pages of Dad’s photo album dedicated to each of his siblings. Today’s page is the one dedicated to his sister Anna (“Aunt Ann” to us).

This is a view of the entire photo album page dedicated to her.

According to Dad’s notations, both of the photos were taken in 1928, the first in the spring and the second in the summer of that year. I believe Dad took these photos.

The first photo shows Aunt Ann standing on the porch of her parents’ house in Jefferson.

I do not recognize the location of the second photo. If you do, please let me know. The photo below was taken on the McClain farm in Tallman.

Aunt Ann was born in 1907, so she would have been 21 in these photos.

The following year (1929) she moved to Richmond, California with Irvine, Lloyd and a couple of their brothers. She kept house for them while they all worked. In return they each shared some portion of their wages with her.

This probably seemed like a natural thing for her to do, since she had been helping take care of her brothers since she was a child. Dad would tell with a chuckle how on the homestead in Alberta he and his brothers would come in for a meal, thirsty from their work around the farm, and would conspire to see how many times they could get Ann to go around the table nonstop pouring water as each of them emptied his water glass before she got back around to him.