Tumwater, Washington
The Diogenes Club
Wednesday, December 4, 2013
Aunt Mary - Gerome
Printed: Chapman, Stanton, Mich.
Mary Jane Reeves (1836-1920) was my great-great grandfather's sister. She married Jerome Burns (1830-1905)
I think it might've been other members of the Burns family who lived in the Centralia area, Washington Territory and served as contacts for the Reeves family when they came out here in 1889.
Tuesday, December 3, 2013
Mrs. Lount
In pencil: Mrs. Lount
In print: Drago, Bay City, Mich.
Another mysterious photo in the Reeves Family Album.
Unidentified
On verso: "Artistic Photographer, Miller's, 710 Washington Ave., Bay City, Mich. The negative of this photograph is preserved for future orders, which can be had at any time. Opposite Post Office."
Monday, December 2, 2013
Ben Huff - 1889
Bottom margin: Baldwin, Flint, Mich.
According to my grandmother, who would provide narration as I frequently perused this album in the 1960s and 1970s, Ben Huff was a guy my great-grandmother Jennie Reeves was sweet on before the whole Reeves family pulled up roots and headed to Washington Territory in 1889 shortly before statehood out here.
Phone photo 3042
A framed bulletin board fell apart, resulting in an accidental work of art
Tumwater, Washington
Grandma Upham and Mary
On album sleeve: Grandma Upham and Mary
On verso: E.E. Shaver, Photographer, Chelsea, Mich.
Grandma is Clarissa Upham, born Clarissa Wheeler in New York 1811, died in Michigan 1878. She is my great-great-great grandmother.
Mary is Mary Ida Upham, Clarissa's granddaughter. Mary's mother deserted the family in 1863 and her father (Clarissa's son) died as a result of wounds received in the Civil War while serving with the Michigan Calvary.
Sunday, December 1, 2013
Favorite Movie Quotes: Pleasantville
Phone photo 3039
Excuse me, but am I the only person who finds the idea of using a talking severed hand to be a disturbing mascot for a product designed to enhance the cooking of ground up cattle? And the fact it has a clown nose makes it sort of super horrifying I'd say.
Aunt Mary Burns
"Aunt Mary Burns"
Verso: E.E. Shaver, Photographer, Chelsea, Mich.
Mary Jane Reeves (1836-1920) married Jerome Burns in 1855 and lived in Michigan. She was my great-great grandfather's sister. It appears she outlived all of her siblings.
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