Photo Number 1232

This is another Real Photo Postcard from my daughter Jen, she purchased the card in an antique shop in Grand Forks North Dakota.

Winnie Stephens

This young lady is standing under a beautiful rose filled arbor.. I bet this one is from Oregon too. ..just like Number 1226 with the Pearsons and Number 1229 with Laura Bernard.  The same person wrote on all three photos with the same pen.

The postcard is from 1904 to 1918.

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From Iggy: This might be her.

Winifred Stephens (b. 1890 in Illinois d. 3 Sep 1949 in Marion, Oregon)

This Winifred Stephens lived with brother John W. Stephens in Marion, Marion, Oregon in 1910-20, married Roy Akins, sometime in the 1920's and lived in West Garibaldi, Tillamook, Oregon in 1930. Roy also worked in a lumber mill.

Photo Number 1231

This is a Real Photo Postcard from Jen, she bought it at the antique shop in Grand Forks North Dakota.

This photo was most likely taken around 1910 to 1911, that seems to be the time it was fashionable for men to part their hair right down the center.

Will Ryzner

This postcard was used  from 1904 to 1918.

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Update from Iggy: 

This might be him

Vincent William Ryzner (b. 22 Jan 1888 in (variously) "Austria," "Bohemia," and/or "Poland" d. 12 Aug 1969 in Tillamook, Oregon). He was bridge carpenter for the Southern Pacific (railroad) and married to a Bessie (b. 1894 in Michigan d. 1969 in Oregon)

Photo Number 1230

This is a Real Photo Postcard from Jen.  She purchased the postcards in the antique shop in Grand Forks North Dakota.

Friends? Cousins?  or sisters? 

To Josephine

From Mrs. Emma Hart

May 1, 1911

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Photo Number 1229

This is Real Photo Postcard from Jen, she purchased it at the antique store in Grand Forks North Dakota.

A beautiful young woman in a white blouse and a dark skirt.

Laura Bernard

This is an AZO Postcard that was used 1904 to 1918.

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From Iggy:

This may be "our" Laura

Laura E Bernard (b. abt 1896 in Iowa) living in West Salem, Polk, Oregon, a young, single, public school teacher and daughter of widowed Theodore Bernard in the 1920 US Census. Laura's mother was Jessie Bernard (b. Mar 1871 d.1920).

Photo Number 1228

This is another Real Photo Postcard  I received as a gift from my daughter Jen.  She purchased the card at the antique shop in Grand Forks North Dakota.

This one has a date Dec 2 1911 it was sent to:  Lloyd Gilson

Lebomon  Lebanon Oregon

The gentleman are dressed very differently, one has a three piece suit complete with tie and cuffed trousers.  The other a turtle neck with a boxy looking  more relaxed looking suit coat..with straight leg trousers.

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Update from Iggy:
According to the United States Census, 1930, Lloyd Everett Gilson lived in Lebanon, Linn, Oregon. He was born on 15 May 1895 in Oregon and died in Nov 1963, and was married to Mavia S. (b. c. 1897 in Michigan d. 1975 in Oregon).

Lloyd is Find A Grave Memorial# 28389130. He had at least three younger brothers, Mervin, Ronald, and Ralph. Lloyd ran a hardware store. He and Mavia appear to have been childless. Mavia, while born in Michigan, grew up in Marion, Marion, Oregon (the same as the Pearsons in previous posts), her father working at a Saw Mill.

Photo Number 1227

This is another Real Photo Postcard gift from Jen, she bought it in an antique shop in Grand Forks North Dakota.

A cute little guy holding a top or some other toy in his hands.

 

This postcard is not that old..it is most likely from the 1940’s.

Darrell Olson ( I can hear Iggy groaning now..another Olson..they are hard to research because there are so many of them.)

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Photo Number 1226

A Real Photo Postcard from Jen, purchased in Grand Forks North Dakota.

A beautiful lady with four children.  Looks to be two girls and two boys.

Gerties boys

Willie Pearson

Mervin Pearson

Gertie Hall Pearson

Mildred Pearson

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Doris Pearson

Nora Hall Pearson’s girls

The Azo Postcard is most likely from 1904 to 1918.

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Update from Jacqi and Iggy!

Gertie Hall had a sister Nora Hall. In the 1900 US census they are listed as 14 and 10 years old respectively, living with parents William and Anna Hall in Grant, Monona, Iowa.

Gertie married Merlin Otto Pearson by 1910 for they are listed in the US census as living in Marion, Marion, Oregon with young sons, William B. (1909) and Mervin Otto (b. 13 Jan 1910 d 3 Mar 1997).

Nora Irene Hall Pearson married Ernest Clair Pearson and according to her FindAGrave memorial (# 28400270) she died in Mar. 11, 1921. She had daughters Mildred (1910), Doris (1909), and Clair (b. 1915)

Ernest C Pearson was Merlin Otto Pearson's brother according to the 1900 US census.

Merlin and Ernest's father was quite a character.

http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=benton&id=I16618

He was one of the Oregon Trail riders and knew and rode with Buffalo Bill.

Perhaps Nora wasn't in the photograph because she was pregnant? There is a Nora Pearson and daughters Mildred and Doris in the 1920 census in the same Oregon county as Gertrude's family--with the addition of a third child, born around 1915. Perhaps that would help date the photograph?