Sibling Saturday: A Photo Matching Game

I am not done with working to identify the old photographs from Aunt Ivy's album. Elsie also sent me this photograph as an email attachment showing the children of George and Henry Ada Quisenberry Diuguid:


Elsie wrote the following about the photo:  "There is not a date on the photo but from the clothing---my best guess is in the late 30's or early 1940's....The photo was made at my grandmother Elsie Freeman's home on HWY 272 in Cadiz.  According to Frances, they had a family reunion either the 1st or 2nd Sunday in August each year. She said that there would be at least 100 or more aunts, uncles, cousins, and extras who
would attend.  She told me that it was a much anticipated event because the food would be in abundance and placed on wagons in the front yard.  I did question why they would wait until August since that is basically our
hottest month---  In a voice that only Frances could use with me, she would shake her head, smile, and then explained that their gardens were producing in August; thus, food was plentiful!"

(Funny how both her and I can still have Frances' voice in our heads).

After I read the email, I scrambled back to the digital images of the photographs from Aunt Ivy's album and pulled this one up.







This is the back of the photograph in probably what is my dad's cousin Juanita's handwriting. She originally purchased the album at Ivy's estate sale.


I could more positively identify it as Travis and Iva when comparing it to the sibling photo. You can sure tell this is Uncle Travis in this one and on the far right of the other one. I included it as an attachment in another email to Elsie and wrote, "I do believe this might have been taken on the same day [as] the one you sent me of all the children. Don't you think?"

She responded back, "I totally agree that this had to have been taken on the same day---the only
big difference to me is that the photo of Uncle Travis and Aunt Ivy was made early in the day and the photo of the 7 siblings was taken much later in the day!!   My reasoning:  notice in the photo of Travis and Ivy--his shirt is buttoned to the top and his pants aren't very wrinkled---in the sibling photo--his shirt has the top button undone and the pants are pretty wrinkled--but it was August and hot!!!"

Aren't we clever? I just love how we were able to even identify which picture was taken first :)

Genealogy can be true detective work. Don't forget to pay attention to the details!


Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Bannerman Family Mystery

Image
Among the many old photographs originally in my grandfather's possession, there is one that has haunted me and has remained a mystery all these years. The photograph is of three children with their names and ages typeset at the bottom of the photograph. “William, 10 years, Robert 8, and Maggie Bennerman, 4 Years Old.” Who were they? My grandfather was not able to identify them, though his memory was remarkably sharp and accurate until his death at the age of 96. I first noticed this picture and the others that my grandfather had in 1989 when I embarked on the adventure of genealogy. Since then I have traced all of my father's ancestors at least back to the early 1800s (and a lot beyond). But I never ran into the Bennerman name, anywhere. Not as ancestors of mine, not even as neighbors. I am lucky enough to even have a name to match the faces in the photograph in the first place. Early in my research, I visited the Tampa stake of the LDS church and I mentioned the Bennerman na...
Read more

Friday Faces from the Past: Moorefield

Image
I am perusing through old photographs from my paternal grandparents side these days. In essence, I have been visiting Kentucky although really only in my mind. Things like this come and go in spurts. I have not looked at the research I have done on these lines in a number of years but every now and them something draws me back. What pulled me this time was an email from a gentleman who saw a photograph on my blog that was taken by Randolph in Cadiz, Kentucky (see the photo here ). This gentleman informed me that he and another local historian were doing research on this photographer who did work in Cadiz from about 1893 to 1913. He wanted to know if I would share an electronic copy of the photograph and also asked if I had anymore photographs taken by Randolph. I hunted around and found one more. This is a photograph identified by my grandfather as "My daddy's first cousin [John Willis Watts], Otis Moorefield." Otis Moorefield (1875-1958) Until I put the two tog...
Read more

Ellicottville Serendipity

Image
Old embossed medicine bottle "Glenn N. Alexander, Pharmacist, Ellicottville, NY" Hanover Town Historian Vince Martonis wrote an article in 2022 for the Greater Buffalo Bottle Collectors Association ( GBBCA ) newsletter about a series of events regarding an old whiskey bottle from Ellicottville. These events ended up bringing him full circle to a connection with an old friend who has since passed. Some years prior, Mr. Martonis told me about the bottle which had a label indicating it was filled with rye whiskey from M.E. Dinneen of Ellicottville that I wound up purchasing from a local antique market. I ended up bringing it to Bryan Scharf at Ellicottville Distillery and we hatched a plan to have a reproduction bottled and labeled to commemorate the town’s bicentennial in 2020. In contacting me for further details about how that all came about, I mentioned Bryan’s last name to Mr. Martonis. He wondered if Bryan was related to his friend Don Scharf, a former fellow member ...
Read more