See this distinguished looking gentleman?...
...His name is Kuno and he's my great-great-grandfather.
He came over from Germany with his parents in the early 1850s and they settled in New York. His dad worked in one of the many macaroni factories there in the city but when Kuno came of age he chose a profession that offered travel, adventure and, ultimately, romance. The railroad.
While riding the rails through Arkansas he saw this vision of beauty...
...Dellah. He was in love.
He promised her that he would come back and marry her. And, luckily for me, he kept that promise. He returned to rural Arkansas, became a farmer like everyone else and he married Dellah, 15 years his junior, in 1886.
They had 11 babies over the years and buried 3 of them. And when he lost his Dellah in 1912, he followed her in death just 2 months later.
Now that's a family portrait.
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