What's the mystery, you ask? You have names and ages: "Alice M. Rogers, Age 12 and Marion L. Rogers, Age 10." You have a photographer's imprint: W.H. Allen, Lawrence, Mass. You have provenance: Photo was found with photographs belonging to Mary. E. Harrison. And you have a date the photo was taken: 1887.
Well, the mystery is that I can't seem to find these girls in the census for Massachusetts. Were they just visiting Lawrence? How are they connected to Mary E. Harrison? I have one possible lead, and I am curious if you will end up there, too.
Don't you just love their dresses?
Here is a birth record for Alice M.
ReplyDeletehttps://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/FXWJ-JT8 her parents are John and Jennie.
We find Marion L listed in 1880...
https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/MH6D-2WY
as Marion L. Rodgers (they slipped in a "d")
Marion L. seems to have never married (or was very late to do).
ReplyDeletehttps://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/XQ58-TM9 shows her single in 1930.
Alice M. married Joseph A. Ewart on March 23, 1896 in Lawrence, MA.
http://lawrence.essexcountyma.net/lawrenceamerican.html
In 1910, Alice M. had a daughter and her father living with her and her husband.
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Thanks, Intense Guy for solving the "mystery" of the missing "d." It's so nice to know more about these girls. Thanks for your work on this!
ReplyDeleteYou are welcome. :)
ReplyDeleteAlice M.'s daughter, Miriam Rogers Ewart (b. abt 1902) graduated from Wellesley Collage in 1924 according to an online yearbook.
www.e-yearbook.com/yearbooks/wc/1921/Page_187.html
She is mentioned as going to Hyde Park with her parents in September 1933 still unmarried.
http://ddd-hph.dlconsulting.com/cgi-bin/newshph?a=d&d=HPH19330929.2.11&cl=&srpos=0&st=1&e=-------20--1-----all
It would appear Alice's sister and Alice's daughter may have never married. If so, this branch of the family died out.