Delk Family History (and more!)

I have been contacted by several family members about posting some of their family photos on this site, and I am all for it. I have set-up an ftp site for people to send me photos, this way they can be hi-res scans and not clog up my email. If you have something that you would like to share, please contact me at photos@familyhistoria.com, and I will get you set up. Also with that, if you have some slides, photos, negatives or something else that needs to be scanned or restored, let me know and we can work something out.

I am also putting up photos from Uncle Thede’s photo album book that he gave to his niece, Mary May Delk. Some are of him, and others are of John and Sara Delk, his brothers and his cousins. I am also ready to pull the trigger on Charles Wesley page and add photos and documents of him and his family, I am just waiting for permission to include his living children.

Brian

I have uploaded a biography of George Washington Delk, written by his son, dictated by GW. Elmer and Martha’s obituary are now posted as well as some poem’s that Martha had written during World War I. Some photos of Franklin Elsworth Delk before he left for the War are on-line and one of Solomon Bennet Delk, date unknown, is also posted.

Remember to give everything time to load. I am trying to keep everything below 3mb in size, but if you do not have high-speed internet, it will take a few minutes. If anyone wants a photo at a higher resolution for printing, please let me know and I will give you a separate download link.

Brian

Dad just finished up John’s Bio, please look and if you have any more information to add to it, that would be great. Also, I have added death notices for George Washington, John and his wife Sarah. More to come soon.

Quick update, just so everyone knows what is going on. My real job has kept me fairly busy this month, which is good for me, but bad for this site. I have however scanned a book full of  photos and documents, and in the next few weeks will be updating quite a bit. I could just upload everything and call it good, but I am cleaning up a lot of these scans. The documents are faded and the photos, (not all) are in need of some help. I know I said I woudn’t do this, but in the long run it looks much better.

Dad and I are hoping to get away long enough to get some photos of John Delk’s gravesite and maybe make some other stops as well. Hopefully this will happen sooner or later. Again, please check back in the next few days for updates.