Pearl Centennial Henney

Here are just a few of the photos that I have of Pearl. It is amazing to me how many photos I have of her, even at time when taking photos was not that common. But she has so many from an early age. She is my great, great grandmother. I believe her father was a politician. I think the story goes that he was giving a speech on Independence day 1876, which was a Centennial celebration for the U.S.A. He was told right before his speech that his baby girl was being born. And thats how she got her middle name. I know that as an adult she was a piano teacher. My grandma told me that her mother (Lucy Shatzel) could remember playing in a piano box as a little girl. She married Albert F. Shatzel, who was a dentist, musician and piano tuner. She was born and lived much of her life in Ohio. But she had contracted Tuberculosis so the doctor recommended that they moved to a more temperate climate. They moved to San Diego California. My grandmother says that Albert loved her very much. She also told me that her mother described her hair as "pinky red" and said she was very beautiful. She died a bit early for her time so my grandma never really got to know her. Thats basically all I know about Pearl. If you know more, please email me. I would like to record it. We named our daughter Pearl after her mostly because we liked the name so much, but also because of all the beautiful photos of her. *Also, some of the baby photos of her were labeled differently or had question marks by them when I first got them. But I relabled them after talking to my grandma about them.