{"id":6282,"date":"2025-07-20T10:17:18","date_gmt":"2025-07-20T10:17:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=6282"},"modified":"2025-07-20T10:17:18","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T10:17:18","slug":"98-year-old-woman-poses-for-photo-with-6-generations-in-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=6282","title":{"rendered":"98-year-old woman poses for photo with 6 generations in it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"69\" data-end=\"230\">At 98, Kentucky matriarch MaeDell Taylor Hawkins met her first great-great-great-grandchild, seven-month-old Zhavia Whitaker, for the first time this February.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"232\" data-end=\"452\">A viral photo captured six generations of women: MaeDell, her daughter Frances Snow, granddaughter Gracie Snow Howell, great-granddaughter Jacqueline Ledford, great-great-granddaughter Jaisline Wilson, and baby Zhavia.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"454\" data-end=\"654\">MaeDell, turning 99 in July, was married at 16 to a 50-year-old railroad worker with 10 children. Together, they had 13 more, raising them without modern conveniences like running water or a washer.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"656\" data-end=\"906\">Despite hardships, Gracie says MaeDell and her mother never complained. Today, MaeDell\u2019s legacy spans over 620 descendants, including 106 grandchildren, 222 great-grandchildren, 234 great-great-grandchildren, and 37 great-great-great-grandchildren.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"908\" data-end=\"983\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">\u201cIf all goes well,\u201d said Gracie, \u201cwe\u2019ll reunite in June for another photo.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At 98, Kentucky matriarch MaeDell Taylor Hawkins met her first great-great-great-grandchild, seven-month-old Zhavia Whitaker, for the first time this February. A viral photo captured six generations of women: MaeDell, her daughter Frances Snow, granddaughter Gracie Snow Howell, great-granddaughter Jacqueline Ledford, great-great-granddaughter Jaisline Wilson, and baby Zhavia. MaeDell, turning 99 in July, was married at 16&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=6282\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;98-year-old woman poses for photo with 6 generations in it&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6283,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6282"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6284,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6282\/revisions\/6284"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}