Category Archives: 1890s

Mystery Photo #1: Girl with tribble, part 2 (solved!)

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As you’ll recall from part 1 of this post, I was trying to determine the identity of the girl in the photo at the right.  I began the process of inductive reasoning to try to figure out who this endearing young girl was.  I wanted this to be a photo of my great grandmother, Gertrude Scott, but barring new evidence, I would have to rule out all other possible persons in order to be reasonably certain that this was Gertie.  But then along came some new evidence, which saved me a lot of work, and which will save you a lot of reading. Continue reading →

Mystery Photo #1: Girl with tribble, part 1

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As with most family photo collections, I have some photos that are unidentified.  The following photo of the girl worried about the dead tribble at her feet is one of these.  Let’s see if we can narrow down the possibilities for who this might be.  The following are the research notes I took as I worked through this mystery. Continue reading →

Hattie Eddy Askew and her well-hatted friends, part 1

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Updated 2013-08-03: Details of Hattie’s death and burial have been revised. Incorrect details have been left in, but stricken out, and revisions are highlighted in blue.

Four turn-of-the-century women in magnificent hatsOn August 7, 2012, Harriet Prettyman gave me a few of her older family photos, including the photo pictured below.  The woman in the lower right of the photo is my great-great grandmother, Hattie Eddy Askew.

Hattie Eddy Askew lived a short life, dying in her early thirties (32-34) at the young age of 33.  She died around 1908-1910† on February 14, 1909, at her farm home outside Casselton, North Dakota. She died of pneumonia, which I was told she caught on a trip to Colorado as a result of a sudden and unexpected heart failure following an illness of about a week’s duration.  Not only did her grandchildren never get a chance to meet her, but her own children were only about 1, 8, and 10 1 ¾, nearly 9, and 12 ¾ years old when she died, so they also didn’t get much of a chance to learn about their mother as a person.

This is only the second definitive photo I’ve found of Hattie Eddy Askew, which is why I’m interested in learning as much as I can about this photo.  What follows is a log I kept of my initial research on this photo. Continue reading →