An incredibly heartwarming photo showing six generations of women from the same family has gone viral recently as it captured the attention of a large number of people.
At the top end of the age scale is 99-year-old MaeDell Taylor Hawkins who is holding her seven-month-old great-great-great-granddaughter Zhavia Whitaker in her arms while the rest of the women, including MaeDell’s daughter, Frances Snow, 77, granddaughter Gracie Snow Howell, great-granddaughter Jacqueline Ledford, 29, and great-great-granddaughter Jaisline Wilson, 19, are posing behind them. Today, MaeDell has more than 620 grandchildren from her own daughters and their children’s children.
“I know it’s rare for six generations … it’s even rarer for all of them to be the same gender,” MaeDell’s granddaughter Howell, 58, told Good Morning America. “We’re all girls — girl power, as well.”
When they snapped the photo and shared it on the social media, none of them knew it would attract that much attention.
“We just kind of planned a day, and we just all met and grandma knew we were coming,” Howell, who now lives in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, said.
MaeDell got married back in 1940 when she was just 16 years old. Her husband was 50-year-old rail worker Bill Taylor who at the time had 10 children and needed someone to take care of them while he was at work. MaeDell took the role of a mother and went on to have 13 children on her own.
The family lived a very simple life as they lacked electricity, running water, and a stove, among the rest.
Getting married young was normal back in the day. Speaking of it, Howell said, “Now we don’t. We have children later in our life, so families are not that big. Having six generations is very, very rare to start with.”
The Kentucky matriarch now boasts a whopping 623 descendants, according to a family chart shared by her daughter-in-law, Janice Taylor. They include 106 grandchildren, 222 great-grandchildren, 234 great-great-grandchildren and 37 great-great-great-grandchildren.
“If everything goes well, the baby’s doing well, Grandma’s doing well – we’re all going to meet back in June and get another picture,” the family shared.
“Reigning Supreme: Country Music Royalty Continues to Make History”
It doesn’t seem possible, but nearly twelve years ago, in 2012, the icon announced his retirement from touring. After selling more than 100 million records worldwide, he was slowing down.
espite retiring from touring, the “Check Yes or No” singer continues to break records. His fans are having no trouble deciding whether to “Check Yes or No” when it comes to his June 15 concert at Kyle Field in College Station, Texas.
Announced on March 19, fans flocked to buy tickets. In fact, more than 100,000 tickets have already been sold. That makes this concert on track to break Strait’s already set all-time attendance record of 104,793 that he recorded in 2014 at AT & T Stadium in Arlington, Texas.
Kyle Field is one of the largest capacity stadiums in college football, which will make breaking his own record quite achievable.
The concert being dubbed as ‘The King at Kyle Field’ will be arranged so that the entire stage can be surrounded by fans
With 33 Platinum and Multi-platinum albums, Strait won’t have any trouble filling the stadium with sing along songs for his adoring fans.
Apparently, the Cowboy hasn’t Ridden Away quite yet. When the King announces a concert, his fans come alive. We may not be seeing him grace the stages of the awards shows, but without a question, his music is known and loved by droves.
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