Gene and Alice Costner

A new picture put on Facebook by James Keith Head--a picture new to me.

Edgar Lugene Costner

Martha Costner Parker and her parents

Gene Costner and Alice Bell Costner's family, Early 1911, Guymon, OK

Back Row: Elbert, Euna, Lee, Ona, Alice, Gene
Little children: Mary, Martha, Helen.
Alice is pregnant with Ethel, born in August 1911

Nancy Ann Stewart Costner with Edgar Lugene Costner, b. 1872

This is from Internet Cousin Paula B, the granddaughter of Gene Costner's oldest daughter. It is our first picture of John Andrew Jackson Costner's wife.

This blog caught the attention of this Internet Cousin. There are other Internet Cousins who might have more pictures from the late 19th century or early 20th century which we can pool.

HURRAY FOR THE SOCIAL NETWORK!

Alice Bell Costner and Gene Costner

From Internet Cousin Paula Beard, who found this blog. All hail the Social Network!

Gene Costner and Alice Bell Costner

A cousin named Bonnie posted this on her web site which another cousin just told me about. I have not yet succeeded in making contact with her except by comments on some of her pictures.[I SOON MADE CONTACT WITH BONNIE AND FIND, THE SOUTH BEING THE SOUTH, THAT SHE IS NOT ONLY MY SECOND COUSIN ON THE COSTNER SIDE, SHE IS ALSO A CLOSE COUSIN ON THE BELL SIDE, AND OF COURSE HANDSOME AND DELIGHTFUL LIKE ALL THE COSTNERS, STEWARTS, BELLS, KNOXES, EWARTS, AND ADAMSES.] I trust the Social Network will bridge all gaps so that I can exchange photographs with her. Meanwhile, by far the earliest picture of my mother's parents I have ever seen. I look, you will see, remarkably like Gene. The power of the Costner-Stewart genes!

At their marriage Gene could encircle Alice's waist with his hands. You see that he had big hands.

P. S. Bonnie and I have made initial contact. Will anyone who knows Mississippi be surprised to learn that we are not just second cousins but double second cousins quite aside from the bonus kinship from the marriage of various Scottish first cousins? Now, it was only last week that I proclaimed on Facebook that I would find photographs of the Stewart ancestors or other kinfolk so we can tell whether or not the "Costner look" is really the Stewart look. Now, Bonnie's grandfather first married a Stewart before he married her grandmother so her grandmother got to be stepmother to some of her young Stewart kin before she had her own children. And there are photographs of Edmunds-Stewart children. Now for more Stewarts and more photographs, all thanks to the Social Network.

Andrew Costner 1913-2001