Saturday, June 15, 2013

Unfortunately, not my great-grandmother

For many years, I wondered who the lovely young lady in this photograph was.

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I had long wondered if this might be a photograph of Amanda H Davis: born in Fayette County, Alabama, in 1861; married to Augustus Newell Edmonds in 1892; mother of Lester Loyd and Blanche Belle Edmonds; died in 1902.

I even posted a question on genealogy.stackexchange.com for help in dating the photo, which I thought would help me identify her.

Eventually, I found an identical photograph on ancestry.com.  This copy of the photograph had the name written on it: Della May Poe.

Della May Poe Wright was a first cousin of Amanda H Davis Edmonds.  Della was born in Arkansas in 1880, married Arthur Stanton wright in 1907, and died in 1951 in Oklahoma.

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