{"id":4742,"date":"2013-11-24T18:37:35","date_gmt":"2013-11-25T02:37:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blackenedroots.com\/blog\/?p=4742"},"modified":"2016-06-28T21:18:02","modified_gmt":"2016-06-29T04:18:02","slug":"mystery-photo-3-fort-collins-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackenedroots.com\/blog\/mystery-photo-3-fort-collins-child\/","title":{"rendered":"Mystery photo #4: Fort Collins child"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackenedroots.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/2011-11-05-0401.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"4744\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blackenedroots.com\/blog\/mystery-photo-3-fort-collins-child\/2011-11-05-040-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackenedroots.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/2011-11-05-0401.jpg?fit=2665%2C3952&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"2665,3952\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1320512034&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Mystery Child\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackenedroots.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/2011-11-05-0401.jpg?fit=202%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackenedroots.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/2011-11-05-0401.jpg?fit=584%2C867&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-4744\" alt=\"Mystery Child\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackenedroots.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/2011-11-05-0401-101x150.jpg?resize=101%2C150\" width=\"101\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackenedroots.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/2011-11-05-0401.jpg?resize=101%2C150&amp;ssl=1 101w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackenedroots.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/2011-11-05-0401.jpg?resize=202%2C300&amp;ssl=1 202w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackenedroots.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/2011-11-05-0401.jpg?resize=690%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 690w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackenedroots.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/2011-11-05-0401.jpg?w=1168&amp;ssl=1 1168w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackenedroots.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/2011-11-05-0401.jpg?w=1752&amp;ssl=1 1752w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 101px) 100vw, 101px\" \/><\/a>I found this photo in a collection of photos that I believe once belonged to my great-aunt and great-uncle, Dorothy (&#8220;Dot&#8221;) Mary Bailey (1896\u20131987) and Clarence Humphrey Bailey (1895\u20131982). These photos would have passed to my grandmother, Dorothy Ruth McMurry (1917\u20131997) upon the death of Dorothy Bailey (Dorothy McMurry&#8217;s maternal aunt). Upon my grandmother&#8217;s death, they passed to my father, and he generously let me have them a few years ago.<\/p>\n<p>The photo in question is a cabinet card image of what appears to be a young girl, aged one to two years old I would guess, dressed in a white gown and black boots and standing on a wicker chair. The photo was taken in Fort Collins, Colorado, by a photographer named Seckner. My initial ballpark estimate is that it dates to 1880\u20131900.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackenedroots.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/2011-11-05-0401.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"4744\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blackenedroots.com\/blog\/mystery-photo-3-fort-collins-child\/2011-11-05-040-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackenedroots.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/2011-11-05-0401.jpg?fit=2665%2C3952&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"2665,3952\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1320512034&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Mystery Child\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackenedroots.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/2011-11-05-0401.jpg?fit=202%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackenedroots.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/2011-11-05-0401.jpg?fit=584%2C867&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-4744\" alt=\"Mystery Child\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackenedroots.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/2011-11-05-0401-690x1024.jpg?resize=584%2C866\" width=\"584\" height=\"866\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackenedroots.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/2011-11-05-0401.jpg?resize=690%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 690w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackenedroots.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/2011-11-05-0401.jpg?resize=101%2C150&amp;ssl=1 101w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackenedroots.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/2011-11-05-0401.jpg?resize=202%2C300&amp;ssl=1 202w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackenedroots.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/2011-11-05-0401.jpg?w=1168&amp;ssl=1 1168w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackenedroots.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/2011-11-05-0401.jpg?w=1752&amp;ssl=1 1752w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/history.poudrelibraries.org\/archive\/pdf\/photographers.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Fort Collins Photography Timeline<\/a>, S. H. Seckner is known to have been active in Fort Collins in 1885, 1889, 1902, 1903, 1904, 1907, and 1908.<\/p>\n<p>What about clues from the photo&#8217;s location and subject?\u00a0As far as I know, there have been only five 19th-century migrations of branches of our family to the Fort Collins area:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Anne Mary Severson and her sister Ellen Caroline (&#8220;Carrie&#8221;) Severson<\/li>\n<li>Peter Anderson<\/li>\n<li>George Wicks Bailey<\/li>\n<li>Belle Jarbeau<\/li>\n<li>William Noble Bailey<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Anne Mary Severson (ca 1856\u20131891) moved from Black Earth, Wisconsin, to Fort Collins at some point between 1870 and 1878 (she married Peter Anderson in Fort Collins in 1878). Carrie Severson (1859\u20131921) moved from\u00a0Black Earth, Wisconsin, to Fort Collins at some point between 1870 and 1880. If Anne and Carrie travelled together, and if they waited until Carrie was 18 to leave home, the date of their move to Fort Collins is narrowed to between 1877 and 1878.<\/p>\n<p>Peter Anderson (1845\u20131927) was born in Norway and moved with his siblings and widowed mother to Wisconsin in 1850. By 1864 he had moved to Denver, Colorado, and had settled in Fort Collins by 1878, when he married Anne Mary Severson.<\/p>\n<p>George Wicks Bailey (1856\u20131909) was born in St. Louis, Missouri, but had moved to Larimer County, CO, by the time of the 1880 census. Belle Jarbeau (1860\u20131935) was born in Sherman, Texas, and moved to Grand County, CO, at some point before 1883, when she married George W. Bailey.<\/p>\n<p>William Noble Bailey (1860\u20131923), the second cousin of George Wicks Bailey, moved from Rockville, Connecticut, to Fort Collins, CO, sometime before 1886, when he married Carrie Severson.<\/p>\n<p>So as a result of these five migrations, three couples met and married in Fort Collins, Colorado, between 1877 and 1886. The young children that each of these couples would have had with them while living in Fort Collins were:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Peter Anderson and Anne Mary Severson:\n<ul>\n<li>Cora M Anderson (born ca Jan 1880)<\/li>\n<li>Pearl Anderson (both April 7, 1882, but died 15 days later)<\/li>\n<li>Franklyn T Anderson (born August 5, 1882)<\/li>\n<li>Paul Frank Anderson (born November 14, 1885)<\/li>\n<li>Earl Sidney Anderson (born December 31, 1887, but died 2 months later)<\/li>\n<li>Florence M Anderson (born June 26, 1889, but died 9\u00bd months later)<\/li>\n<li>Myron Porter Anderson (born September 1, 1891)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>George Wicks Bailey and Belle Jarbeau:\n<ul>\n<li>Isaiah Loomis (&#8220;Ike&#8221;) Bailey (born June 24, 1884)<\/li>\n<li>George Jarbeau Bailey (born August 5, 1889)<\/li>\n<li>Clarence Humphrey Bailey (born March 2, 1895)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>William Noble Bailey and Ellen Caroline (&#8220;Carrie&#8221;) Severson:\n<ul>\n<li>Lucinda Tracey Bailey (born February 20, 1887)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If we remove the children who died before they reached the age of the child in the photo, the list of potential subjects is:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Cora M Anderson (born ca Jan 1880)<\/li>\n<li>Franklyn T Anderson (born August 5, 1882)<\/li>\n<li>Paul Frank Anderson (born November 14, 1885)<\/li>\n<li>Myron Porter Anderson (born September 1, 1891)<\/li>\n<li>Isaiah Loomis (&#8220;Ike&#8221;) Bailey (born June 24, 1884)<\/li>\n<li>George Jarbeau Bailey (born August 5, 1889)<\/li>\n<li>Clarence Humphrey Bailey (born March 2, 1895)<\/li>\n<li>Lucinda Tracey Bailey (born February 20, 1887)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I know that the subject of the photo is not Clarence Humphrey Bailey, as I have two photos of him from approximately that same age (see one of these below, also by S. H. Seckner of Fort Collins), and he&#8217;s clearly not the same person as the subject of the mystery photo.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackenedroots.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Clarence-H-Bailey-ca-18961.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"4751\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blackenedroots.com\/blog\/mystery-photo-3-fort-collins-child\/clarence-h-bailey-ca-1896-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackenedroots.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Clarence-H-Bailey-ca-18961.jpg?fit=3112%2C4340&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"3112,4340\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1320511563&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Clarence H Bailey ca 1896\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackenedroots.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Clarence-H-Bailey-ca-18961.jpg?fit=215%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackenedroots.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Clarence-H-Bailey-ca-18961.jpg?fit=584%2C815&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-4751\" alt=\"Clarence H Bailey ca 1896\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackenedroots.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Clarence-H-Bailey-ca-18961-734x1024.jpg?resize=584%2C814\" width=\"584\" height=\"814\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackenedroots.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Clarence-H-Bailey-ca-18961.jpg?resize=734%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 734w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackenedroots.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Clarence-H-Bailey-ca-18961.jpg?resize=107%2C150&amp;ssl=1 107w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackenedroots.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Clarence-H-Bailey-ca-18961.jpg?resize=215%2C300&amp;ssl=1 215w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackenedroots.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Clarence-H-Bailey-ca-18961.jpg?w=1168&amp;ssl=1 1168w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackenedroots.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Clarence-H-Bailey-ca-18961.jpg?w=1752&amp;ssl=1 1752w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a>So the photo is not of Clarence Bailey, but is it a photo of a boy at all? I don&#8217;t think so. If the subject of the mystery photo is indeed a girl, as I strongly suspect, given the the style of the gown, the hairstyle, and the facial features of the child, the list of potential subjects shrinks to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Cora M Anderson (born ca Jan 1880)<\/li>\n<li>Lucinda Tracey Bailey (born February 20, 1887)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Now, given that this photo almost certainly came from my great-aunt and great-uncle, Dorothy (&#8220;Dot&#8221;) Mary Bailey and Clarence Humphrey Bailey (it was found in a folder with photos of Dot and Clarence and their immediate family members, and with WWI letters from Clarence to Dot), would it make more sense for Dot and Clarence to have a photo of Cora or of Lucinda? Cora and Dot were first cousins (their mothers were the Severson sisters), and Lucinda and Dot were sisters.<\/p>\n<p>I think this photo makes more sense if it&#8217;s a photo of Dot&#8217;s older sister, Lucinda Tracey Bailey, my great-grandmother. If this is indeed the case (as I go through more and more photos, hopefully it&#8217;ll become more certain), then when would the photo have been taken? The child in the photo looks like she&#8217;s just reached the age where she can stand alone, unsupported, so my guess is that she&#8217;d be about 11\u201314 months old (if you think differently, please let me know in the comments section). Lucinda was born on February 20, 1887, so this photo would have been taken between January and May, 1888.<\/p>\n<p>If you have any further insights, please tell me about them in the comments section below!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackenedroots.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/2011-11-05-0401.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"4744\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blackenedroots.com\/blog\/mystery-photo-3-fort-collins-child\/2011-11-05-040-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackenedroots.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/2011-11-05-0401.jpg?fit=2665%2C3952&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"2665,3952\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1320512034&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Mystery Child\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackenedroots.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/2011-11-05-0401.jpg?fit=202%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackenedroots.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/2011-11-05-0401.jpg?fit=584%2C867&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-4744\" alt=\"Mystery Child\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackenedroots.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/2011-11-05-0401-690x1024.jpg?resize=584%2C866\" width=\"584\" height=\"866\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackenedroots.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/2011-11-05-0401.jpg?resize=690%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 690w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackenedroots.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/2011-11-05-0401.jpg?resize=101%2C150&amp;ssl=1 101w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackenedroots.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/2011-11-05-0401.jpg?resize=202%2C300&amp;ssl=1 202w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackenedroots.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/2011-11-05-0401.jpg?w=1168&amp;ssl=1 1168w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackenedroots.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/2011-11-05-0401.jpg?w=1752&amp;ssl=1 1752w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found this photo in a collection of photos that I believe once belonged to my great-aunt and great-uncle, Dorothy (&#8220;Dot&#8221;) Mary Bailey (1896\u20131987) and Clarence Humphrey Bailey (1895\u20131982). These photos would have passed to my grandmother, Dorothy Ruth McMurry &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blackenedroots.com\/blog\/mystery-photo-3-fort-collins-child\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[50,42,283,286,82,276,83,285,78,351,284,80],"tags":[287],"class_list":["post-4742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1880s","category-1890s","category-anne-m-severson-anderson","category-belle-jarbeau-bailey","category-ellen-c-severson-bailey","category-clarence-bailey","category-dorothy-m-bailey","category-george-w-bailey","category-lucinda-t-bailey-mcmurry","category-mystery-photo","category-peter-anderson","category-william-n-bailey","tag-colorado"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackenedroots.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackenedroots.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackenedroots.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackenedroots.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackenedroots.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4742"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blackenedroots.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5959,"href":"https:\/\/blackenedroots.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4742\/revisions\/5959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackenedroots.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackenedroots.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackenedroots.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}