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[Jan. 25th, 2009|06:39 pm] |
Ok, I didn't get tagged by ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) kristine_smith on this but I couldn't resist it when it this was the photo that came up.
The meme is:
1.Go to the 4th folder in your computer where you store your pictures.
2.Pick the 4th picture in that folder.
3.Explain the picture.
4.Tag 4 people to do the same.
I don't like tagging people so I'll let people tag themselves, but this is from a folder called family photo mysteries.
All of them would be interesting but this one drives me wild.
This photograph, in an ivory frame, lived on my grandfather's dresser, along with a lot of others. But I don't know who this woman is or WHY he kept his photograph on his dresser.
I've tried Russell, Roles, Mershon, Matthews, Dey
The handwriting on the back already said:
February 1872
my dear mother
born Oct 3rd 1821
died December 5th 1891
She was married April 16th 1838
This picture taken Februrary 1872
The company name across the bottom is the middle of something _REDRIC_
the pencil notes are mine and note that she may be from Annie Jeanneau's family (who were related to my grandfather's Matthews family) but that is absolutely a guess
 My grandfather was Louis Serle Dederick born May 8, 1883, in Chicago. This can't be his mother (too old) and his grandmothers were
Ann Matthews Russell (born 1816)
and Catherine Sarah Dey (born 1830) died 1865
So it's not either of them.
Some of the others were photographs that had been his wife's.
His wife's grandmothers were born in 1816 and 1831.
I have other mystery photos - my mother's family took and kept photos - and some of them are utter mysteries.
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[Apr. 20th, 2008|10:51 pm] |
So we drove down into spring, coming from Chicago to Hopkinsville.
It is beautiful, the redbuds are blooming, and although there was some rain Saturday, it was mostly sunny today.
People talk differently here. It's amazing how much of a regional accent remains.
And we had the "they are all related" experience again. Someone at the UU church mentioned that her mother's maiden name was the same as my husband's, and a little checking leads me to believe that she's a distant cousin of his. |
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