Courtesy of Sheryl Blessing

A recent family photo showing six generations of women has gone viral on Facebook. Ninety-eight year old MaeDell Taylor Hawkins, is seen in the photo meeting her great-great-great granddaughter, seven-week-old Zhavia, at her nursing home residence in Kings Mountain, Kentucky. Surrounding Hawkins and baby Zhavia in the photo is her daughter, Frances Snow, her granddaughter, Gracie Howell, her great-granddaughter, Jaqueline Ledford and her great-great granddaughter Jaisline Wilson, totaling to be six generations of women in their family.

The family visit took place last month after it took some scheduling to get all women there since half of them are currently living out of state. Snow, 77, is based in Fairborn, Ohio, while Howell,58, is based in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Ledford, 39, resides in Anderson, South Carolina, while Wilson, 19, is based in Somerset, Kentucky. The visit lasted for three hours where Howell said, "We had a really good visit."

MaeDell Hawkins was born and raised in Kentucky. She got married early on at 16 to Billy Taylor who was 50 at the time, in 1940. "That's a big difference," Howell told Fox News Digital. "He already had 10 children. His wife died having twins at home. He worked on the railroad. He had to get back to work. He needed somebody to take care of the kids." At the age of 16, MaeDell stepped up to take care of Taylor's 10 children, and went on to have 16 children of her own. According to a chart made by MaeDell's daughter-in-law, she has 106 grandchildren, 222 great-grandchildren, 234 great-great grandchildren and 37 great-great-great grandchildren.

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