The Kull Family Website

This picture has been in my “most wanted” section for over a year.  It was found in my Aunt Elaine Webster’s collection after her death.  Thanks to Bill Atkinson of Winfield, Alabama, we now have names to go with these faces.  Front left to right: Samuel M. Atkinson, Nancy Atkinson, Susan Nix Atkinson.  Rear left to right: William Charles Atkinson, Bascom Poole Atkinson, and David Hollis Atkinson.  Samuel and Susan were “next door” neighbors as children in Pickens County, South Carolina.  They married  there in the early 1870’s and started a family.  By the early 1880’s they had moved to Georgia (don’t know the county since the 1890 census burned up).  They relocated to Fayette County, Alabama in the early 1890’s.

I expect to die in bed, my successor will die in prison and his successor will die a martyr in the public square. His successor will pick up the shards of a ruined society and slowly help rebuild civilization, as the church has done so often in human history. – Cardinal Francis George (2010)

Ellen Wright, my cousin Rosa’s daughter, has been going through her mother’s collection of family photos and has come across some real gems.  With her permission, I’ll be adding a lot of these to the site.  I did want to put a couple here in the blog since these are some of the relatives that stayed behind in Switzerland.  The first one is a very nice shot of our family kin.  Mother, Selina Kull was the sister of Fred and Julius.  She was married to Adolph Hammerli and they had six children that I know of – Selina, Friedrich, Elsa, Eugen, Julius, and Arthur.

Seated – L to R: Selina, Adolph, daughter Selina
Standing – L to R: Unknown, Elsa, probably Eugen

Ellen’s information had the two young men as being possible spouses of Elsa and Selina.  I think it is more likely that they are brothers.  The one on the right looks like another Continue reading »