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Photo No. 52 bears a striking resemblance to another photo in this series:
I’m going to wager that these two ladies are related:
For what it’s worth, not that I needed further convincing, the photos have exactly the same imprint on the back and the handwriting on both looks to be the same as well. Here’s the reverse of Mary Morris’ photo.
But Cornelia’s photo is pretty exciting because the notes on the back give us her marital information. Now, I have been building a Friends Album family tree in Ancestry, to help me keep track of everyone we’ve been discussing so far and to track the documents I find about each of them. I already had found a Henry Young, married to a Cornelia, on Ancestry. Why? Because they were the parents of a Frederick Young. I think they’re the parents of this Frederick Young aka Friend No. 8:
But wait, there’s more! I found the Youngs in the 1860 U.S. census and guess who is in the household? Stanley M. Young. We haven’t seen a photo of Stanley yet (well, not that we know of). But we have seen a photo of Stanley’s wife’s brother, William Morrell!
Are you keeping track? We’ve now connected the Morrises to the Youngs to the Morrells! To top it all off, I think I have found all of the above Morrises and Youngs in the same cemetery on FindaGrave, which may help me to locate their next of kin. More on that at a later date.
Here’s Photo No. 53:
This photo appears next to Cornelia’s in the album and both are the exact same size on the same type of backing. However, this photo has no imprint on the front or back and no other markings besides the schmutz you can see on the image itself. It’s an interesting photo nonetheless.
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1860 U.S. Census, Litchfield County, Connecticut, population schedule, Bridgewater, page 15, dwelling 125, family 125, Henry Young and family; Ancestry.com (www.ancestry.com : accessed 2 April 2011); Roll: M653_82; Image: 16; Family History Film: 803082.
Wonderful work, and okay, I am a little jealous. Not fair they wrote names on the back of the picture! Enjoyed this post.
Thanks, I really did luck out with some of the information I was provided. Still, I wish there were more to work with!
Mary and Cornelia are indeed sisters, daughters of Roswell Morris and Laura Canfield, My records list a third sister, Caroline, who married Peter Wooster