{"id":2887,"date":"2023-10-15T02:01:56","date_gmt":"2023-10-15T00:01:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/?p=2887"},"modified":"2023-10-15T02:01:56","modified_gmt":"2023-10-15T00:01:56","slug":"98-year-old-kentucky-woman-with-over-230-great-great-grandchildren-meets-her-great-great-great-grandchild-for-the-first-time-in-amazing-photo-with-6-generations-in-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/?p=2887","title":{"rendered":"98-year-old Kentucky woman with over 230 great-great-grandchildren meets her great-great-great-grandchild for the first time in amazing photo with 6 generations in it"},"content":{"rendered":"

This 98-year-old matriarch finally got to meet her first great-great-great-grandchild in her expansive Kentucky family.<\/p>\n

MaeDell Taylor Hawkins held seven-month-old Zhavia Whitaker this past February for the first time.Granddaughter Gracie Snow Howell posted a photo of the moment that has since gone viral. MaeDell has more than 620 grandchildren today between the children of her own daughters and their children\u2019s children.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe thought this was special because it\u2019s all girls,\u201d Gracie, who appeared alongside MaeDell, told People.<\/p>\n

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In the photo is MaeDell\u2019s daughter Frances Snow, granddaughters Gracie Snow Howell, great-granddaughter Jacqueline Ledford and great-great-granddaughter Jaisline Wilson. Sheryl Blessing, Hawkins\u2019 granddaughter, took the photo.<\/p>\n

MaeDell will turn 99 in July.She was married in 1940, at the age of 16, to a 50-year-old railroad worker with 10 children from a previous relationship, Fox News reported.<\/p>\n

Bill Taylor, her husband, was often away for work. The two still had 13 children together, according to Gracie, and they all lived without most modern conveniences. The family did not have a washer and a dryer, nor did they have running water.<\/p>\n

\u201cI know she had it hard, but she didn\u2019t complain,\u201d Gracie told People.<\/p>\n

Gracie continued to say that she never once heard her mother, Frances, complain about a lack of anything in their family home.<\/p>\n

As seen in this photo of 6 generations of women, MaeDell\u2019s support and love clearly have led to generations of happy, healthy women and children.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIf everything goes well, the baby\u2019s doing well, Grandma\u2019s doing well \u2013 we\u2019re all going to meet back in June and get another picture,\u201d Gracie told Fox News.<\/p>\n

According to Fox, the Kentucky matriarch has 106 grandchildren, 222 great-grandchildren, 234 great-great-grandchildren and 37 great-great-great-grandchildren living across the US.<\/p>\n

We can\u2019t imagine raising so many wonderful children with so little! Let us know what you think in the comments!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This 98-year-old matriarch finally got to meet her first great-great-great-grandchild in her expansive Kentucky family. MaeDell Taylor Hawkins held seven-month-old Zhavia Whitaker this past February for the first time.Granddaughter Gracie Snow Howell posted a photo of the moment that has since gone viral. MaeDell has more than 620 grandchildren today between the children of her […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2887","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=2887"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2890,"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2887\/revisions\/2890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}