Rabbits on the Henize farm

The Henizes raised rabbits on their farm in the 1910s. In the following photographs, you can see several of the Henize children (including my great grandmother Lucy) posing with the rabbits. I believe the structures in the first picture have the rabbit hutches in the background.

The very last picture is a bonus of Grandma Kathleen with what I believe was a pet rabbit, since it was named Hink.

Twins Beryl and Bedah with rabbit, dog, and most likely hutches

Beryl

It's overexposed and hard to see, but the rabbits are there! 

Beryl and Lucy with rabbits and chicken; barn in background.

Aunt Vesta (the taller girl) with other children holding rabbits in front of a giant pile of corn stalks.
That's some harvest!

Kathleen with Hink

Compassion - Vesta May Cowdrey (nee Henize)

So in the pictures that Rachel sent me, I found a lot of this young man (or maybe these two are brothers?):

I asked Grandma Kathleen about the picture on the left, thinking these two were the same person. Grandma replied saying that his name is Danny Lightner. The caption for the picture below, however, is "Vesta, Jackie Lighten, Mary Louise". Grandma told me, "Aunt Vesta and Uncle Herman frequently took in boys who needed help. They would help out with some farm duties, but treated as part of family. This boy was Danny Lightner. He was with Aunt Vesta for - maybe 5 years."

I think it's sweet that we have people in our family like Aunt Vesta and her husband, Aunt Docia, and Robert Jackson Connell who had the generosity and compassion to take in children who needed help.

Mary Louise, Vesta, Jackie Lighten

Aunt Vesta