{"id":1053,"date":"2023-04-06T20:34:40","date_gmt":"2023-04-06T18:34:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/?p=1053"},"modified":"2023-06-19T15:38:38","modified_gmt":"2023-06-19T13:38:38","slug":"98-year-old-kentucky-woman-meets-great-great-great-granddaughter-for-the-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/?p=1053","title":{"rendered":"98-year-old Kentucky woman meets great-great-great-granddaughter for the first time"},"content":{"rendered":"

In a heartwarming moment, a 98-year-old Kentucky woman met her great-great-great-granddaughter for the first time.<\/p>\n

The family captured the occasion with a photograph to cherish the memory, ABC News reported.<\/p>\n

Cordelia Mae Hawkins, who goes by MaeDell among her relatives, welcomed her great-great-great-granddaughter Zhavia Danielle when Zhavia, along with her mother, aunt, grandmother, and great-grandmother, visited Hawkins\u2019 nursing home on February 19th.<\/p>\n

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Cordelia Mae Hawkins (center) holds her great-great-great grandaughter Zhavia. Hawkins\u2019 daughter Frances Snow, granddaughter Gracie Howell, great-granddaughter Jacqueline Ledford, and great-great-granddaughter Jaisline Wilson stand behind them.
\nCourtesy of Sheryl Blessing<\/p>\n

At 7 weeks old, Zhavia is the second great-great-great-grandchild of Hawkins but her first great-great-great-granddaughter. According to Hawkins\u2019 granddaughter, Gracie Howell, the family matriarch was thrilled to see everyone gathered together. The family plans to cherish the photograph as a symbol of their bond.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe just kind of planned a day and we just all met and grandma knew we was coming,\u201d the 58-year-old told \u201cGood Morning America.\u201d \u201cShe was excited. We had three hours with her.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe baby got a little fussy. She was like, \u2018Here, give me that baby.\u2019 I mean, she\u2019s just a natural,\u2019\u201d Howell recalled.<\/p>\n

In the photograph, taken by Howell\u2019s sister Sheryl Blessing, the family members can be seen from left to right. It starts with Howell\u2019s mother Frances Snow, followed by Howell, her daughter Jacqueline Ledford, her granddaughter and Zhavia\u2019s mother Jaisline Wilson. In the center of the photo is Hawkins, holding her great-great-great-granddaughter Zhavia.<\/p>\n

\u201cI know it\u2019s rare for six generations \u2026 it\u2019s even rarer for all of them to be the same gender,\u201d Howell added.\u201d We\u2019re all girls, girl power as well.\u201d<\/p>\n

Howell explained to \u201cGMA\u201d her grandmother married at 16 and eventually went on to remarry two more times.<\/p>\n

According to a family-created chart, Hawkins has a large family with 13 children and 10 stepchildren. The 98-year-old matriarch currently has 623 descendants. Howell shared that according to their family story, Hawkins always made sure her children had a warm meal before school in the morning and in the evenings.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe\u2019s had a tough life. But she\u2019s got a good spirit,\u201d Howell said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In a heartwarming moment, a 98-year-old Kentucky woman met her great-great-great-granddaughter for the first time. The family captured the occasion with a photograph to cherish the memory, ABC News reported. Cordelia Mae Hawkins, who goes by MaeDell among her relatives, welcomed her great-great-great-granddaughter Zhavia Danielle when Zhavia, along with her mother, aunt, grandmother, and great-grandmother, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1054,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1053"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1099,"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1053\/revisions\/1099"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}