Grandma’s childhood postcards: Eastertime 1910s

Other than her love of Christmas day, no other holiday was so loved by Grandma Zentz Lawson than that of Easter Sunday.

To me, this is quite evident through her collection of the 1910 decade of Easter postcards sent to her by her sisters while the Zentz girls lived in Argos and Bremen; postcards now over 110 years old.

During the 1910 years, Grandma Zentz’s sister sent her many beautiful Easter postcards: the sisters being Ada, Dora, Chloe, Grace and Hazel, along with brothers Claude and Harvey. Many descendants of these sisters and two brothers still live in Argos, Bremen and around Indiana.

What Grandma and her Zentz family did to celebrate Easter back in the 1910s may never be known except it is buried in the various families’ history. Perhaps they hid Easter eggs, went to special church services or had a family feast, etc.

Grandma gave me her pre- cious childhood postcard album a couple of years before she passed away in May 1974, and only recently did I fully appreciate the childhood history buried between the pages of this album’s fragile 110-year-old book and its 300- plus holiday cards and more.

The messages written on the backs of these postcards provided an interesting education into the social lives of the Zentz girls and the communities.

Anyone with an aging grand-

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