Bernard Wait and Nelson Bessette, my Great-Grandfathers

This is my grandfather Donald's father, Bernard Wait. I am told this picture was taken in Florida. I'm not sure what he was doing down there (or who took that picture and why they wanted to take a picture of him walking down a street) but supposedly he used to stay for periods of time at his childrens' homes (he had six children) after he retired from the railroad. He bought a Morris chair to keep at my grandfather's house and when he was staying there no one else could use that chair.

This is the chair (I think it still has the same cushions - we really need to do something about that someday). I remember this chair. It sat in the hall at my grandmother's house and now we have it in our family room. It is the chair that my father-in-law sits in all the time.


My aunt Dot said that her grandfather Bernard was not a very fun grandfather. She said she liked it better when my grandmother's father visited. She said he was more fun.

This is a picture of Nelson Bessette, my grandmother Lucy's father. He was a farmer from Chateguay, NY.