That's it a totally differant picture. Contrast could not be geater. The faces are depressed and have lack of expression and are looking in the direction of nowhere as in a froozen picture, spontanity is totally loosed. Ivo looks as an old man who loosed his vitality. It's like they came together for a last common picture in the knowledge that this war could take away some of the members of the family or separe them. And indeed the oldest son André will do his military service in the army, Jules will die in 1917 before the end of the war and Anna one year after the war finished
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In the same picture we see the different family members
In the middle above the three oldest daughters. Anna and Clara will mary two brothers David. Clara will later migrate with three of her children to a fam in the Loiret in France. The youngest of them Maria Margaretha will die unmarried in 1928.
On the same line will find the three sons. André the eldest will continue the parental farm and René will become a Burgomaster/Farmer in Outryve. Jules the youngest of them will die during WWI in 1917
Then we have the two youngsters next to their parents. Magdalena will die in 1919 and Martha will marry Omer Cossement who died very young in 1935 leaving her alone with two young children of 7 and 8 years old.