My Grandfather, Jake Gregory (1909-1994) had an 8mm camera that his wife Virginia (1913-2004) bought in the mid 1950's. Here are the clips involving my Great-Grandparents Mortimer(1876-1966) and Alice(1876-1960)Gregory plus other Gregory family members. I am not sure who all of these folks are, if you can identify some of them (I left a question mark in quotes next to items that I am not sure of), please leave some comments here or email me, Brett, at windbag9@gmail.com (the email at the intro on the video is now out of date) What you are watching initially is Alice and Mort sitting on a swing at someone's (?) home in OK. Then Jake's wife Virgie is doing Alice's hair. This is probably the summer of 1959 Next is Jake helping Mort and Alice into my Dad's old 55 Ford (which they had borrowed for the trip out to OK from CA) At 1:27 we see one little boy and two little girls with their mother in a yellow dress mixed with shots of three men in hats. Woman in Yellow Dress is Essie Laverna Gregory Mitchell (1926-1998) (she went by Laverna) The little boy is Jerry Dean Mitchell (born 1950), the older brunette girl is Mary Jo (born 1953), and Donna Ann (born 1956) is the younger blonde headed girl. Man in dark hat, white tshirt smoking is Walter Mitchell 1920-1983(Laverna's Husband). Man in Grey Hat not smoking, collared shirt leaning against water pump is my grandfather Jake Gregory. Third man in hat is(?) This part of the video, was made north of Binger, at a place Walter and ...
Tags: Mortimer, Gregory, Alice, Hankins, Binger, Caddo, Oklahoma, Robert, Lilburn, Ambrose, Clemuel, Hiser, Farr
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