An incredibly heartwarming photo showing six generations of women from the same family has gone viral recently as it captured the attention of a large number of people.
At the top end of the age scale is 99-year-old MaeDell Taylor Hawkins who is holding her seven-month-old great-great-great-granddaughter Zhavia Whitaker in her arms while the rest of the women, including MaeDellâs daughter, Frances Snow, 77, granddaughter Gracie Snow Howell, great-granddaughter Jacqueline Ledford, 29, and great-great-granddaughter Jaisline Wilson, 19, are posing behind them. Today, MaeDell has more than 620 grandchildren from her own daughters and their childrenâs children.
âI know itâs rare for six generations ⊠itâs even rarer for all of them to be the same gender,â MaeDellâs granddaughter Howell, 58, told Good Morning America. âWeâre all girls â girl power, as well.â
When they snapped the photo and shared it on the social media, none of them knew it would attract that much attention.
âWe just kind of planned a day, and we just all met and grandma knew we were coming,â Howell, who now lives in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, said.
MaeDell got married back in 1940 when she was just 16 years old. Her husband was 50-year-old rail worker Bill Taylor who at the time had 10 children and needed someone to take care of them while he was at work. MaeDell took the role of a mother and went on to have 13 children on her own.
The family lived a very simple life as they lacked electricity, running water, and a stove, among the rest.
Getting married young was normal back in the day. Speaking of it, Howell said, âNow we donât. We have children later in our life, so families are not that big. Having six generations is very, very rare to start with.â
The Kentucky matriarch now boasts a whopping 623 descendants, according to a family chart shared by her daughter-in-law, Janice Taylor. They include 106 grandchildren, 222 great-grandchildren, 234 great-great-grandchildren and 37 great-great-great-grandchildren.
âIf everything goes well, the babyâs doing well, Grandmaâs doing well â weâre all going to meet back in June and get another picture,â the family shared.
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