The Diogenes Club
Tuesday, December 3, 2013
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.
Morty Comix # 2675
Reeves Family Album
I have a couple old puffy Victorian-era family photo albums, both tracing back to my Mom's relatives. Some of the photos are tintypes, and I know a few were taken during the Civil War. They are pretty interesting as artifacts, and in many cases I have no idea who the subject is, or otherwise have little information.
The first of the two albums apparently belonged to my great-grandmother, Jennie Melissa Reeves, who married Theodore Jacob Hoss. I'm going to try and spare all of you any lengthy genealogical narratives, but I will supply some brief facts with each photo as we go.
This particular album was handed down to Jennie's oldest child, my grandmother. After she died in 1978 my Mom picked it up as the surviving heirs divided up the estate. It was given to me quite some ago when I was still interested in family history. The advent of Internet sort of spoiled the hunt for me, I must say. At least I got to talk to all those oldtimers in the 1970s and 1980s before their entire generation passed on. My grandparents and their siblings were born mostly in the 1880s or 1890s.
When I hauled this monster into the living room Hettie had to come and check it out.
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