Bayside Blog
Discover. Display. Protect.Historic Easton Has a New Web Site!
Please visit http://www.historiceastoninc.net/ to learn more about Historic Easton’s current projects and how to get involved!
Album Rescue Project: Album 1, Photos 24-25
Here’s a photo with a rather artsy angle to it:
Photo 24
I’m not completely convinced that the people in this photo are related to those we’ve already met. Partly because of the paper this is printed on:
Reverse of Photo 24 (postcard markings)
I do recognize at least one of the girls in this next photo:
Photo 25
Album Rescue Project: Album 1, Photos 22-23
I love this next photo. Note that the girls are standing in a stream:
Photo 22
Might the water below be where they were standing? It seems to be moving pretty rapid here:
Photo 23
Album Rescue Project: Photos 20-21
More from Red Bridge Park today, at least in this next photo:
Photo 20
Reverse of Photo 20
The next photo isn’t labeled on the back, but I’m willing to wager that this scene on a swingset is from the same park:
Photo 21
Album Rescue Project: Album 1, Photos 18-19
Here are the next photos from Album 1. Could this next image also be from Red Bridge Park? It doesn’t have any writing on the back unfortunately:
Photo 18
The next image is a funny one, with the two women posed among the reeds:
Photo 19
This photo doesn’t have any writing on the back either. I think I recognize the girl who featured in many of the earlier photos on the right with the bow on the side of her head.
Album Rescue Project: Album 1, Photos 16-17
Here are the next two photos from Album 1. They don’t reveal much, but they are great photos nonetheless:
Photo 16
So that isn’t a rogue photo corner that got caught in the scanner — this photo had another one attached to it in the album. I was able to remove the photo, but didn’t want to risk damaging this photo further by trying to remove the paper corner.
Reverse of Photo 16 "Aunt Bert"
I love this next photo:
Photo 17
Reverse of Photo 17 "Sept. 1915"
Valentine Corley
My fifth great-grandfather, Valentine Corley, passed away this day in 1803 at the age of 82. Before writing this post, I didn’t have any direct sources of information about him. His death date came from the Family Data Collection on Ancestry, which also lists his wife as Sarah Walker. Valentine lived and died in Virginia.
In preparation for this post however, I did another search for records for Valentine and found another Ancestry member posted scans and a transcription of Valentine’s will. The will verifies that his wife’s name was Sarah and also reveals that they owned several slaves by the names of Betty, Ruth, David, Sarah, Lucy, Fanny, Pleasant, Wiat, Daniel and Rob. The names of Valentine’s children also appear: Aggathy, Ann, Mary, Milly, Asa, Caniel (my 4th great-grandfather) and William.
Surname Saturday: Heimel
One of my third great-grandmothers was Sophie Heimel who, according to her gravestone, was from Bavaria. I believe that she came to the U.S. in 1845 at the age of about 17.
I haven’t jumped the pond to investigate her forebears, so please let me know if you share this surname.
Sophie married Julius Hoyer, also from Germany, and they settled in San Antonio, Texas. Her FindaGrave memorial apparently includes text from her obituary. She died in 1883.
Album Rescue Project: Photos 14-15
More from Red Bridge Park in the next photo:
Photo 14
Reverse of Photo 14 "Red Bridge Park"
And what do you suppose these are rows of? Beans?
Photo 15
Nothing save for the number 5 was written on the back of this photo.
