Smile for the Camera – My Favorite Photos
In thinking about this edition of Smile for the Camera, I couldn’t pin down just one photo. I have a few favorites, and decided to show the best of the best with you. All of them are special to me because they either show an ancestor when they were young, or because it is the only photo I have of that ancestor.
This is a photo of my great-grandmother, Thelma Corrinne (Seibert) Furry (1910-2000). She was 15 at the time. The reason I like this photo is because when I first saw it, I had never seen a photo of her between the ages of 2 and 30, so it was nice to see what she looked like when she was a teenager:
I have quite a few photos of my great-grandmother Drusilla Irene (Rix) Beckman (1868-1955) when she was 75 years and older, but this is the only photo I have of her when she was young. I’m not sure of when it was taken (anyone want to take a stab?), but I’m guessing that is was about 1890:
This is a photo of the Jacob Seibert household at 1214 E. Jacob Street, Louisville, Kentucky, taken sometime between 1890 and 1910 (Again, anyone want to take a stab at the date?). I can’t identify any of the people who are in this photo but I can only assume that it is of Jacob Seibert and his wife and children, which would make it the only photo of that family. If I could only pin down the date of the photo I could probably identify the people in the photo based on the ages, but until then, I can only guess:
This is a treasured photo of four generations my grandfather’s family, taken circa 1921. This is the only photo of my g-g-grandmother Isabella (Wishart) Cummings (b. 1863), on the right, and her mother Catherine (Hodge) Wishart (b. 1838), on the left. The baby is my grandfather, Floyd Ellwood Cummings (b. 1921). The man is Edward Blythaway Cummings (1893-1953), Floyd’s dad:
I just love these old photos!
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August 14th, 2008 at 8:05 amHi, My grandfather was Arthur Jacob Seibert, son of John T. & Katherine Seibert, son of Jacob & Malinda Seibert, but that is far as I can get. Anything past Jacob and Malinda?? Thanks. My mother really like the photograph of the Seibert residence.
Regards, Dennis
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Amanda reply on June 10, 2009:
Thanks for commenting.
I’ll email and we can “talk” more. I’d love to get more information about John T. Seibert, Katherine (Basenberg?), and their descendants.
Malinda’s parents were Valentine Frey and Katherine/Katherina Knoerr. I’m not positive, but I think that Jacob’s parents might have been Theobald Seibert and Katherina Kintzer.
By chance, is your mother’s name Katherine? I communicated with a Katherine (Kitty) Smith a few years back that lives (lived?) in Indiana who was a granddaughter of John T. Seibert, but all attempts to contact her since have failed.
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Dennis Smith reply on June 12, 2009:
Yes, that would be my mother.
Jacob and Malinda had numerous kids, one being a Frederick W. Seibert, b1889, and I have heard stories that he moved to Ohio. Same person?
Some one told me of the German naming custom with the son being named after his father’s father – and Theobald would work.
Thanks. Look forward to “talking” in the future.
Dennis
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Amanda reply on June 12, 2009:
Fred Seibert was my g-g-grandfather. He moved from Louisville, KY to Akron, Ohio in 1916. You can read more about him in this blog post of mine:
http://colubridlady.com/2008/05/fred-seibert-and-kenmore-ohio/
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