Jackson Family Reunion

If I'm not mistaken about the Katherine part, Aunt Lucille was born "Katherine Lucille Doris," but after grade school she goes by "Lucille Jackson." I was told that she was adopted but I don't know anything about the details. We went to Hayti,  Missouri about ten years ago looking for old family records but we didn't find much. Since Aunt Lucille didn't have any children, even if there had been adoption records, they weren't going to let us see them. I don't see why it would have mattered.

Here is the 2nd to last post containing entries from her diary: The Jackson Family Reunion.

More here:

Diary Entries Part 3: Trip to Missouri!

August 1931, Lucille and her family travel to Missouri. Apparently they know a lot of people all over the country. Lucille was very well traveled, probably on account of how wealthy her family was.

She is originally from a town called Hayti, Missouri. After she died, Dad and I traveled to Hayti looking for family records but since she (and my dad's father, her brother) were both adopted, they couldn't give us any information at the courthouse. Lucille was born "Lucille Doris" and after she was adopted, she changed her name to "Lucille Jackson." I am not sure when or why this happened but it makes the family tree a whole lot more confusing. I am also not sure if Lucille and Kos were biological siblings. I think they were.

I'm also not sure whether or not the Jackson family was also from Missouri and later moved to Biloxi, Mississippi with Lucille and Kos, or if they were brought to live there after they were adopted. This is one of the things that I'll probably be able to find out by reading some of the newspaper clippings.

"A Trip to Missouri. Visit Aunt Janie and Teddy in Memphis, then 2 weeks in Hayti."
Larger image here: A Trip to Missouri

I am sorry that the images are so small. I am still not used to blogspot. I don't think I like it, but it's free and I've already started. Click below to read about the rest of her trip. (Far more interesting than the last post.)

Diary Entries Part 2: Local Events

July 1927, "The 700 Mile Wager"
View Larger Image: Lucille's Diary, Page 7

These are probably some of the most boring pages, but I'm going through it exactly as it is. This diary is one of the few things that actually has some order to it!

To read more about their "dilapidated ford journey" and two fancy parties, click below:

Diary Entries Part 1

Reading her diary, I am starting to realize that there are a lot of things that I was told about Aunt Lucille that might not have been true. That is, if she was telling the truth about herself in the following pages.

For one, I was told that she'd been deaf since she was around three years old, but her diary says that she likes music and dancing. (A lot.) I do know that she was deaf as an adult, at least as far back as the 1940's, but when or why it happened is now a mystery to me. So far, anyway.

Her diary begins as a description of herself and a plea for pen pals across the country. I guess it's possible that she wanted to write to people who didn't know she was deaf. I think it contradicts itself a couple of times. Keep in mind that she has some problems with tenses. For example, "I go to college" could mean "I am going to go to college." This is how she spoke when I knew her.

Here is the poem that she wrote following her description and pen pal request:




There are more pages where it says "click here:"

Loose Photos: 1920's

Most of these photos are from the 1920's. Many of them have writing on the back, which is rare but appreciated.



I am going to attempt to put the rest of the photos under a "jump break" since there are so many. I probably won't be doing this very often.

Aunt Lucille + Me, Late 1980's

It's probably just the glasses and the fact that she's an old lady, but:


(Sophia from The Golden Girls)

...Yes?

Pre-Post

I'm just testing this out. The picture is made from a failed impossible project polaroid and a photocopy of my Aunt Lucille. It would make more sense in relation to this archive (but not realistically) if it said, "Lucille heard the stars for the very first time." Lucille was deaf, but she didn't know what she was missing.