This is my great, great grandfather, Henry Bonnert Benard Heckerman, who was born in 1867, with two snapping turtles he caught. He died in 1928.



It's very likely I've caught snapping turtles out of the same bodies of water he did, near Piqua, Ohio.

Keith

Cool, was he a trapper too?

I don't know, but probably. I've got very old pictures, that I need to try to match up with names. My favorite old picture has two live coyotes chained to a pole. I've got a box with around 100 old pictures of family, who we mostly don't know their names for certain. A lot of the pictures, that are labeled say things like "sis" or "grandpa", which isn't as useful after 150 years. A lot of the pictures are tin types.

At least 28 of my ancestors moved to Ohio, just slightly after the Revolutionary War. I had at least a little over 300 ancestors in the US before 1700. They mostly lived in North Carolina and most received land for fighting in the war. I had 12 grandfathers fight in just the battles of New Garden and Guilford Courthouse in North Carolina. 8 were Quakers who were disowned for fighting. Another was Amish and was also disowned. The atrocities the British committed were to much for them to ignore, so they stopped being pacifists. The movie the Patriot is loosely based on what happened. Mel Gibson's character was based on several people including my cousin Major-General Nathanael Greene. Weirldly, a few generations before that, most of the Quaker's grandfathers were admirals or comptrollers of the British Navy. I had at least 16 ancestors who held those positions over the years.

Henry's grandfather was born in Pennsylvania in 1807 and moved to Montgomery County, Ohio shortly afterwards.

I need to get the coyote photo out and scan it.

A lot of my family, at least 68 people, took wagon trains out West. They have their records on Family Search. The ones who made me came back to Ohio after living in Iowa and Kansas. I suspect the coyote picture was taken in Kansas or Iowa. There's still a large number of people related to me in those two states.

Keith

Great old photo
I love trapping turtles too.
Lots of people have forgotten how many food sources we use to utilize every day that we don't anymore.
People got by with fat less money knowing how to eat off the land and do things for themselves

Awesome pic!

Awesome that you have so many old pictures

Very cool Keith