Oliver Calmar Reedy and Margaret Maribel Reedy offerChristmas greetings from the Reedy family,
Cameo, Colorado, ca. 1913-1919
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Postmarked at Cameo, Colorado, Eva M. Reedy mailed this card to Alice Fox of Osceola, Nebraska. The year is illegible.
According to the very interesting history of the Grand Valley Diversion Dam, Oliver T. Reedy assumed the position of Supervising Engineer in charge of construction on June 27, 1913. Work on the Grand Valley Project went on for several years, and Reedy wrote an article about it in 1919. [Reedy, O.T. "The Construction of the Grand River Roller Crest Dam." Reclamation Record (August 1919): 374-378.]
I bought the Reedy greeting card, along with some other items, at an estate sale a few years ago. Watch for more on this estate sale purchase next week.
I'm not related to the Reedy family, nor to Alice Fox, original recipient of the postcard. If you are, please contact me via the Comments feature at the end of this post. Include your email address for a personal response. Comments containing your email address will not be published.
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For more holiday topics, visit the Genea-Bloggers' Advent Calendar of Christmas Memories
hosted throughout December at Destination: Austin Family by Thomas MacEntee.
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6 comments:
Hey T.K. - thanks for your post on the Advent Calendar of Christmas Memories. This postcard is neat - the wittiest I have seen. I hope you'll post more entries at ACCM this month!
Thomas MacEntee
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Thanks, Thomas, I do have another post or two up my sleeve. Thanks for your time and effort on this fun idea!
This is a great find and incredibly original! I hope one of the families find it here. I think it's time to resurrect the photo postcard.
I love photo postcards, Apple, but sometimes those high-speed sorting machines at the post office scar them up pretty bad.
Oliver Calmar Reedy is the son of Oliver Thomas Reedy and Eva Mary McCune. Oliver Thomas Reedy is the son of Oliver Kerr Reedy. Oliver Kerr Reedy is the son of William Michael (or Michel?) Reedy and Catherine Kerr. I descend from Rev. James Jay Hamilton Reedy, brother of Oliver Kerr Reedy.
Thanks, RealMac, for adding this interesting lineage. I wonder if you have any further information on your Catherine Kerr? My Kerr lineage has Pennsylvania roots. What about Catherine's?
Did you find my post with other items from the same estate sale purchase? The first couple of postcards in the slideshow may be of interest to you.
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