Fleagle clan at Colonial Park, 1925

The Fleagle clan at Colonial Park, 1925.

In 1925, the Fleagle clan was so numerous that it spilled over the porch at the Colonial Park house.

Here is a true family treasure. It’s a large photo — something like 8×10 so I hear (and you can tell just from the detail) — taken at the Colonial Park house in 1925. My cousin Tim recently became steward of this photograph, and sent me this scanned image of it, to my great joy.

Here, for starters, is one of the few pictures I have of my great grandfather Benjamin Fleagle and his wife Martha Jane Fleagle (née Harner). Benjamin is one of the two old men — brothers, they are — around which the family is arranged. Continue reading