Digging Up Your Family

Wordless Wednesday: John Oscar Ellis and Ina Lee Ellis c. 1923

Not-So-Wordless-Wednesday: Ina Lee Ellis 1919

The back of the photos says:

Ina & cousin Barney Ellis

in South St. Louis

Age about 12

Her age puts the photograph around 1919.

Not-So-Wordless-Wednesday: Letters from Cofie Lee Craft

Cofie Lee Craft is the sister of Henry Corbit Craft, my great-grandfather.  Cofie was born in 1888.  She married Joel Rivers in 1906.  Cofie died in 1980.  The following letters document the death of her mother, Eppy, though we still are not sure on her exact name.

To her brother, Henry Corbit Craft, postmarked 1949.

 

Letter to her great-niece Polly, postmarked and dated 1973.

Wordless Wednesday: Cotton

Cotton in a Field taken in Gibson County, Tennessee.

Wordless Wednesday: Unknown

Another from Heirloom Restoration in Orange, New Haven County, Connecticut.  I’m pretty curious about this photo.

Wordless Wednesday: Unknown

Here’s another photo from Heirloom Restoration in Orange, New Haven County, Connecticut.

I can’t help but giggle when I see this!

Wordless Wednesday: Unknown

This is another photo I purchased from the now defunct Heirloom Restoration in Orange, New Haven County, Connecticut. 

I absolutely love this photo.  I hope someone will show up and tell us all about her!

Not-So-Wordless Wednesday: Unknown

This photograph came from a lot that I purchased that came from a photography restoration shop that had closed down, Heirloom Restoration in Orange, New Haven County, Connecticut.  The lot was about 250 photographs, all reproductions and “work-in-progress” photographs.  There are so many amazing pictures and I wish I knew what was going on in some of them.  Like this one: 

What is she doing? 

I had to lighten the photograph a little.  On the “original” reproduction it was so dark that I didn’t notice the driver at first:

 

This is just an example of some of the great photos.  I have two more lots that I am waiting on.  One is from New Jersey and the other is from an estate sale in Pennsylvania (I think).  I would love to hear from someone that knows more about this picture. 

Not-So-Wordless Wednesday: Wallace Family, Bibb County, Alabama

back row left to right: Lenorah Elizabeth Ward (wife of Algernon Sidney Wallace) Jacob Ebanezer “Jake” Wallace and Mary Cash (wife of Dempsey Chism)

front row left to right: Elizabeth “Lizzie” Wallace, John Walter Wallace, Clara Wallace, Ruth Julia Chism (wife of John Walter Wallace), and Mae Wallace

Photo taken about 1899 in Bibb County, Alabama.

Wordless Wednesday: Telephone Exchange

Maude Mae Jones, c. 1925/1930

Telephone Exchange

Pine Apple, Wilcox County, Alabama