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Tuesday, January 16, 2018

Sadie Stacey of Bernardston, Massachusetts

Found Photo: Sadie Stacey of Massachusetts



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Name(s): Sadie Stacey or Stacy
Date: N/A
Location: Bernardston, Massachusetts

This photo was taken at Hopkins Studio in Greenfield, Massachusetts. Greenfield is near Bernardston, where Sadie lived and gave this photo to her neighbor.

It's likely that this is biographical information for Sadie:

Sadie Augusta Stacey, born 1862, was the daughter of Lewis Stacey and Mary Etta Dunton. In the 1880 Census, Sadie was living in Bernardston with her widowed mother, Mary Etta, her sisters  Hattie, Etta and Gertie, and her brother Louis. In June 1887, at about age 27, she married Franklin Dana Cummings in Greenfield, Massachusetts. After the loss of an infant daughter in 1888, they had two sons, Raymond Cummings and Harold Cummings. Before Harold's birth in 1894, the family moved to Portland, Maine. Sadie died there in 1916.

Fanny Housman

Found Photo: Fanny Housman of Wisconsin


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Name(s): Fanny Housman
Date: 1879
Location: Milwaukee, Wisconsin

The photographers were Schroeder & Hagendorff in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. It's possible that Fanny was related to Charles Housmann, Julius Housmann and Rosa Housmann, who all lived at 600 3rd St. in Milwaukee in 1883, according to the city directory.

Emily Goodnow Stearns

Found Photo: Emily Goodnow Stearns of Massachusetts



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Name(s): Emily Goodnow Stearns
Date: 1896
Location: Chelsea, Massachusetts

Emily was the wife of George Monroe Stearns, a well-known attorney in Massachusetts. George served as the United States Attorney for the District of Massachusetts from 1886 to 1887. This photo was taken in 1896, two years after George's death.

Emily Goodnow was born on March 4, 1833 in Princeton, Massachusetts. Her parents were Erasmus Goodnow and Caroline Bullard. Emily and George met as schoolmates in Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts. They married on May 17, 1855 in Brooklyn, New York. They had two daughters, Mary Caroline Stearns and Emily Spaulding Stearns. Most of their married years, they lived on Springfield Street in Chicopee, Massachusetts.
The photo was taken at Brown Photography Studio at 327 Broadway in Chelsea, Massachusetts.

Olive Irene Schornherst Phye and her brother John Vernon Schornherst

Found Photos: Olive Irene Schornherst Phye and John Vernon Schornherst


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Name(s): Olive Irene Schornherst Phye and John Vernon Schornherst
Date: N/A
Location: N/A

Siblings John and Olive were the children of Louis W. Schornherst and his wife, who is named alternately as Nora Rosella McCrory and Rose Ella McCrory. The family appears to have moved around, but lived primarily in Texas and Colorado.

Olive was born in Texas in 1897. She married LeRoy Wesley Phye. They had two children, Elton and Elva Phye. Olive died in 1988 in Canon City, Colorado.

John was born in 1899 in Denison, Texas. He did not marry. He died in 1973 in Canon City, Colorado.

Sunday, January 1, 2017

William Sponamore and Emma Grosclaude


Found Photo: William Sponamore and Emma Grosclaude of Illinois


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Name(s): William Sponamore and Emma Grosclaude
Date: N/A
Location: Augusta, Illinois

This is likely to be a photo of William Franklin Sponamore, born 12 November 1866 in Carthage, Illinois.  He was the son of John Sponamore and Mary Ann Chowning.  In 1893 he married Emma Grosclaude, daughter of Augustus Grosclaude and Martha Edmonston.  They settled in Huntsville, Illinois and had four children: Ethel, Glenn, Harold and Sterling.  William died in 1944 and Emma in 1960.

Walt Clevenger of Indiana

Found Photo: Walt Clevenger of Indiana


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Name(s): Walt Clevenger
Date: N/A
Location: Union City, Indiana

This could possibly be the Walter Clevenger who was born in 1859 in Indiana, the son of James M.  and Editha Clevenger.  Walt was a barber in Union City, Randolph County, Indiana in 1880 (per the US Census), but later became a veterinary surgeon and moved to Indianapolis. Walt married Clara Parsons and they had two daughters, Margaret (b. 1889) and Frances (b. 1896). He died of meningitis in Indianapolis in 1911.  

Bridget and John Keating

Found Photo: Johny Keating and Bridget Keating of Pennsylvania


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Name(s): Johny Keating and Bridget Keating
Date: N/A
Location: Easton, Pennsylvania

The photographer is S.B. Hoffmeier.  His studio was located in Easton, Pennsylvania.

It's possible that Johny and Bridget were Irish immigrants.  There was a couple in Philadelphia with the names Bridget and John Keating, but Philadelphia is not particularly close to Easton.  I haven't had luck locating another couple with these names closer to Hoffmeier's studio.