History

On a historical note, this is a picture that hangs above my work station and since many customers have asked me about it, here is the background. The gentleman is my great grandfather, he lived from 1853 til 1931. He would have been 11 at the end of the civil war, 12 when President Lincoln was assassinated (the same age I was shen President Kennedy was shot), 29 when Jesse James was shot and 61 at the start of WW1. He was the station master and postmaster of East Lynn, West Virginia (Virginia when he was born) in 1876 (www.wvculture.org/history/agrext/eastlynn.html). He had his own personal library and studied eastern religions much to the chagrin of his family, not being baptized until shortly before his death. He saw the end of the wild west, the advent of the industrial revolution and the discovery of electricity and automobiles. The most interesting thing about him, to me, is that he did tattoo’s. I did not know until I had been tattooing for several years, my grandmother being the only one of his 10 children without one. I remember seeing my grandfather’s tattoo’s (He was in both the army and navy in WW2), without thinking that some of them might have been done by him. I’ve seen the type of equipment he would have used, but unfortunately don’t know much more. So I hang this, the only picture of him I have, over my station, he would get a kick out of it.