Under mum’s protective wing. Unconditional love in that gaze. Lillian & Max Ludlow, mother & son, photographed in the late 1910s. Max Marcus Ludlow was born to the Michigan couple William Joy Ludlow and Lillian née Niel in 1910 as their only child. Will and Lillian had got married on May 15, 1907, in Sandstone, Jackson in Michigan. Lillian had been born in 1882 and was 27 years old when she gave birth to Max. Father Will worked as a grocery store merchant and a cobbler. Fat