Ileah in Grandma Sue's Dress

I just posted pictures of Ileah taken on March 1st, 2008.

The pictures are beautiful in their own right, but there is also some very cool history involved. Some of the people reading this pictures don't know our family, so I am going into a bit of detail. I just hope I have all the details correct.

The dress Ileah is wearing was her Great Grandma Sue's (Sue is Joe's Mom, Eric's Grandmother). It was hand-crocheted, circa 1946, by Ileah's 4th Great Aunt, Mary Redjack nee Noble (the sister of Ileah's Great-Great Grandpa Red Walker's mother, Doris Walker-Schlacter nee Noble). Unfortunately, we cannot find a picture of Sue wearing the dress. We know she wore it at age 13 months at the wedding of Chick and Ann Walker (Ileah's 3rd Great Uncle and Aunt). We are still searching for a picture.

Prior to Ileah receiving the dress from her Great-Great Grandmother Freda Walker (Red's wife), it was repaired by Freda's sister, Betty Burney (who is Ileah's 3rd Great Aunt). The blue slip under the dress was made by Ileah's 2nd Great Aunt, Jo Lynn Mahaffey (Freda's daughter, Sue's sister) in 2007. Evidently, Sue had used the original slip for her dolls when she was a child and it was in tatters from use.

Ileah in Grandma Sue's Dress