The Advance Bus

| January 10, 2012

Bill Capell told me that there were a few towns that would not give a parade permit. We all know that it is important to get the word out, so the Capell’s would use the bus for their shopping or for what ever was needed….sometimes just a drive around town picking up a thing or […]

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Make It Pretty

| January 10, 2012

Knowing Doc as I did, I can hear him saying. ” Now when your done here I have a truck needing a paint job.”

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Marie Henry

| January 10, 2012

My aunt Marie Robert “Hap” Henry’s wife. photo late 1940’s.

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Rutons Dogs

| January 10, 2012

Photo from the Carson collection. 1951

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NEW LINK….On The Circus Blog

| January 8, 2012

 www.circustents.blogspot.com Bob Cline has a sight that all should visit. It is up to date and informative. It can be found in blogrolls, CIRCUSTENT as well.     My Regards to all.   Ivan M. Henry.

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James Edward Henry

| January 3, 2012

This is J.E. Henry, my grandfather, at the age of 49. Here again is another photo that I never knew existed until a few months go. I only knew my grandfather as an elderly man during  1944 and 1945 when he was at his winter quarters in El Monte, Calif. The most outstanding thought in […]

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Bertha & Arthur Henry

| January 3, 2012

This photo is of Bertha May and Arthur Henry and was taken in 1905. First of all, I want to thank Donald Richmond, a distant cousin of mine that I did not know of until a few weeks ago, for this picture. Because of my Circus Blog, Donald discovered the rest of his Henry family […]

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J.E. Henry Family

| January 3, 2012

This photo is of my grandfather J. E. Henry at the age of 39 or 40 and my grandmother Mabel Chase Fairbanks Henry at approximately age 26. The two children are Bertha May Henry, my aunt at age five and Arthur Henry, my uncle at age two.This photo was taken in 1905.  J.E. had his […]

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The Young James E. Henry

| January 3, 2012

This is a photo of the young James Edward Henry. His age 28, J.E. was one of 13 children. Their names were Frank, Clifford, Mary, Effie, Maynard, Charles, Nellie, Grace, Willie, Evert, Carol and Edith. Their parents were Robert Henry and  Nana Henry. I never knew I had so many great aunts and uncles. I […]

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Robert & Nana Henry

| January 3, 2012

Robert and Nana Henry they had 13 children. James Edward Henry, my grandfather, was the 10th or 11th child. I have all their names in another post. The Henrys, with the exception of Robert Henry were all farmers. Robert did some farming in his younger days as well as raising a large family which in […]

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