Crittenden County, KY Historical Society - Album No. 2
The Album
This album is the second of two that reside in the Crittenden Co., KY Historical Society collection. I was kindly allowed to use a laptop and a scanner to copy the photos.
The original owner of the album is not known. It almost goes without saying that the original album owner was female. Males generally did not and generally still do not collect mementos of their youth or even keep up previous or youthful friendships, as these photographs represent.
The album is found to contain the photographs of Florence (Pierce) Yandell, her husband (or husband-to-be) William B. Yandell, her father James Perry Pierce, her mother Emeline (Rolston) Pierce, and her brother Ira Tilden Pierce. But the album does not appear to have been kept by Florence herself, since her photos are marked with her name and the name of her husband, as if she was an acquaintance of the album owner, but not in the immediate family of the album owner. Florence kept a large number of photographs loose rather than in an album.
The presence of such a large number of Pierce and Yandell photos does indicate that the album owner was someone close to the family, as mentioned, not in the Florence (Yandell) Pierce's immediate family, but perhaps a cousin or other distant relative. The large number of photographs from the Douglass studio, Evansville, Indiana suggests that the album owner lived in or near Evansville, Indiana or its near neighbor across the Ohio River, Marion, Kentucky, where, apparently, either Douglass had a branch or people traveled to Evansville for their photos.
The large number of photos of teenagers from the W.S. Lively studio in McMinnville, Tennessee implies that the album owner probably attended the girls' school in McMinnville.
Numbering
The photographs within this album comprise part of three
collections of photographs from Crittenden Co., KY and associated with Florence
(Pierce) Yandell or her family, referred to as:
1) FPY
Loose Photos - a collection of loose
photographs originally belonging to Florence (Pierce) Yandell (1861-1938), which
were found in the attic of the house she formerly occupied,
2) Crittenden County
Historical Society (CCHS) Album No. 1, an album in the collection of the Crittenden Co., KY Historical
Society, and
3) Crittenden County Historical Society
(CCHS) Album No. 2, another album at the Crittenden
Co., KY Historical Society.
Within this the overall collection, photos from the Florence (Pierce) Yandell loose photos are numbered FPY 001 through FPY 192; photographs from the Crittenden County, Kentucky Historical Society Album No. 1 are numbered CCHS 197 through CCHS 248; photographs from the Crittenden County, Kentucky Historical Society Album No. 2 are numbered CCHS 249 through CCHS 279.
Order of the Photographs
The order of numbering of the CCHS photographs in the two albums was as they appeared front to back in the album. In this case, some photos might have been mounted adjacent to each other,, e.g.,,a husband and wife facing each other in sequential pages. or children next to parents. Therefore, the order of CCHS photographs may have significance, and should be kept in mind during identification.a husband and wife facing each other in sequential pages. or children next to parents. Therefore, the order of CCHS photographs may have significance, and should be kept in mind during identification.
The FPY photographs were loose and not apparently arranged in any kind of order. They were first reviewed in the order received. Later, some photos were pulled out and grouped with other photos, using one of the following criteria: photos containing similar-appearing or the same person, photos having the same type of mount, or photographs of a similar era, e.g., CDVs. Finally, all photos not pulled into a grouping were placed at the end, according to age - CDVs, then cabinet cards, then later mounted cards, and last, unmounted photos. For this reason, the order of the FPY photographs has no significance, and should be ignored.
Identification
Most of the photos are not identified, but a few were either marked on the back or by inscriptions on the album page.
The filename of each photograph is given to the right in order to keep the notes associated with the correct photo. These filenames may have names and appear to identify the subject, but they were tentative guesses made at the time of scanning and may be completely wrong. Please pay attention to the notes below the filenames, which represent the most recent identification and reason/logic for the identification.
Where such a back or album inscriptions was present, it is described in the notes to the right of the thumbnail. Since a photograph is not generally removed from its place in the album (which tends to rip the album), such back inscriptions are assumed to have been written by the original album owner and written contemporaneously with the photography. Therefore, back inscriptions are assumed to be correct unless overwhelming evidence shows them not to be.
Where there is an inscription on the album page, it was usually added by a member of the historical society. Such an inscription would have been added much later than the year when the photograph was taken. The inscribing person might be basing the identification on knowing the person during their lifetime and recognizing them at a younger age, or basing the identification on having seen a copy of the same photograph or other photographs of the subject that had been already identified. Album inscription are therefore dependent on the memory of a local person, and tend to be correct, but not necessarily so.
When a photographer's logo or name is present on the photo mount, it is also quoted in the notes; the location in which a photo was taken often provides an important clue as to the identity of the subject, as well as a probable important location in the life of the subject, such as a school location.
The firmest identifications of unmarked photographs are those involving the James Perry Pierce extended family, for which there exist a large number of other photographs that were identified and mounted by a member of the family shortly after the photographs were taken.
When the identity of the subject of a photograph is uncertain based on other photographs that are already identified, a primitive facial recognition method is used, in which the photo to be identified is 1) cropped so that the eyes are exactly horizontal, 2) sized so that the head top to chin distance is the same as an identified photograph to which it is to be compared, 3) copied and pasted to a photoshop file containing the identified photograph, and finally, 4) comparing the width of the eyes, the width of the cheekbones, the position of the nose, the position of the mouth, and the presence of any other facial features, such as a cleft chin, freckles, moles, etc.
Leaps of logic, tenuous connections, and similar guess have been liberally used. All identifications are to used with a grain of salt.
If I have made errors, and you have correct or additional identification/information, please contact me (mathew_brady@msn.com and allow me to correct the errors.
Cast of Characters:
This album contains photographs mainly from the children and extended family, and perhaps friends and acquaintances of Florence (Pierce) Yandell (1861-1938) and her husband, William Bennett Yandell (1857-abt. 1930) :
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CCHS 250: Cabinet card (4¼x6½"); unmarked as to subject or date. |
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CCHS 252: Cabinet card (4¼x6½"); unmarked as to subject or date.
Same image and photographer's imprint as
FPY 035. Photographer: "R.E. Clark, Owensboro, Ky." Owensboro is the county seat of Davies Co., KY, and lies on the Ohio River, about 77 miles from Marion and Crittenden Co. It is roughly the halfway point to Louisville if you are travelling by boat.
Subject:
Probably
Joseph Oscar Pierce
(1872-1950), son of Jacob Ayhart Pierce
(1842-1930) and Elvira Oliver (1845-1929). Date: c.1904. He appears to be about the same age as he does in MISC 003 and MISC 004, dated to c.1904.
Lower Image: Comparison of all known or suspected images of Joseph, in approximate order of age left to right. For discussion of Joseph Oscar Pierce identifications, see MISC 009.
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Lower Image: Comparison of all known or suspected images of Thomas Henry Crider, in approximate order of age from left to right. See MISC 052 for discussion of identifications.
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CCHS 257:
Cabinet card (4¼x6½"); unmarked as to subject or date.
Lower Image:
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CCHS 258:
Cabinet card (4¼x6½"); unmarked as to subject; inscribed on back:
"Harry Johnson, September 2, 1886".
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CCHS 260: Cabinet card (4¼x6½"); unmarked as to subject or date.
Photographer: Printed on bottom: "J.L. Stewart, Marion, Ky."
Subject: Probably Miriam Elizabeth Pierce (1898-1987), daughter of James Perry Pierce (1841-1916) and his second wife Ella J. (Cox) (Langley) Pierce (1861-1928), and wife of William Harold Dobyns (1902-1933).
Why is it probably Miriam? Of the four other cabinet cards in all of the Crittenden Co. photographs on this entire web site that are this exact Stewart design and color, the subjects are: 1) Stanton, Jacob Ayhart, Willis & Willis Pierce, 2) George Collin Pierce, 3) Emeline and Florence Pierce, and 4) Miriam Pierce as a baby. Another Miriam as a baby is the likeliest subject.
For discussion of Miriam Elizabeth Pierce and Miriam (Pierce) Dobyns identifications, see MISC 019.
Date: c.1898, her birth year.
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CCHS 261:
Cabinet card (4¼x6½"), unmarked as to
subject or date, but noted to be the same man as in CCHS 205. |
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CCHS 262:
Cabinet card (4¼x6½"); unmarked as to
subject or date.
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CCHS 263: Gelatine-silver
print or printing-out paper print (~2½x4"), mounted on textured
off-white card (~3½x5½"). Unmarked as to subject or
date.
Photographer: Unmarked.
John Stanton Pierce (1869-1944), son of Jacob Ayhart Pierce (1842-1930) and Elvira Oliver (1845-1929). He married Rosa Clark Duley (see CCHS 265 and MISC 037) about 1902.
He was a first cousin of Florence (Pierce) Yandell, who probably collected the albums and photos at Crittenden County Historical Society.
The identification of this photo as John Stanton Pierce was made by comparison to two images (MISC 003 and MISC 004 in black & white) from captioned and identified half-tone reproductions in an article or book about the Jacob Pierce family written by Jennie Dorothy (Pierce) Chlore (1897-1991), the daughter of Willis Champion Pierce, one of the eight sons of Jacob Ahart Pierce.
Date: c.1902; probably a
photo commemorating his wedding.
Lower Image: Comparison of images known or suspected of being of John Stanton Pierce, in approximate order of increasing age from left to right. For discussion of John Stanton Pierce identifications, see MISC 010.
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CCHS 264:
Cabinet card (4¼x6½"); unmarked as to subject or date.
Lower Image:
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CCHS 265: Gelatine-silver
print or printing-out paper print (~2½x4"), mounted on textured
off-white card (~3½x5½"). Unmarked as to subject or
date.
Photographer: Unmarked.
Rosa Clark (Duley) Pierce (1871-1929), daughter of Henry Hamilton Duley (1840-1927) and Mary L. Hardin (1840-1894). She married John Stanton Pierce (see CCHS 263 and MISC 010).
She was a the wife of a first cousin of Florence (Pierce) Yandell, who probably collected the albums and photos at Crittenden County Historical Society.
One indication that this is Rosa (Duley) Pierce is CCHS 263, a matching photo (having the exact same size, card type, photo size, photo color or toning and even the same pose). Such a match almost always is from a husband and wife pair.
A confirmation that she is Rosa (Duley) Pierce is the comparison to a known image of Rosa (MISC 004) from a captioned and identified half-tone reproduction in an article or book about the Jacob Pierce family written by Jennie Dorothy (Pierce) Chlore (1897-1991), the daughter of Willis Champion Pierce, one of the eight sons of Jacob Ahart Pierce.
Date: c.1902; probably a
photo commemorating her wedding.
Lower Image:
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CCHS 266:
Cabinet card (4¼x6½"), unmarked as to subject or date.
Lower Image: Comparison of images known or suspected to be of Darius B. Carnahan, in approximate order of increasing age. For discussion of Wirt Ahart Pierce identifications, see MISC 055.
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CCHS 267: Unmarked cabinet card (4¼x6½"). |
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CCHS 268: Unmarked cabinet card (4¼x6½"). |
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CCHS 247: Cabinet card (4¼x6½"), unmarked as to subject or date.
Photographer: Printed on
front bottom: "Douglas, Evansville, Ind."
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CCHS 270: Cabinet card (4¼x6½"); inscribed on back: "Geo. H. Simmons"; unmarked as to date.
Photographer: On front of black card: "Kimsey, Henderson, Kentucky". Henderson is in the metropolitan area of Evansville, Indiana, just across the Ohio River in Kentucky.
Subject: George H. Simmons (1866-1906). Rev. Dr. George H. Simmons was a pastor in Henderson, Ky, relatively near Crittenden Co. He was also involved in business in Western Kentucky. Florence (Pierce) Yandell, the likely assembler of this album, was not related to him as she was to so many of the other subjects of these photographes, but may have met him in church or through her husband's or father's business.
The Paducah Sun, 6 Feb 1906, p.1: -Former Kentucky Man Suicides- -Rev. George Simmons Killed Himself at Peoria, Ill.- -He Was a Prominent Man and Was Interested in Several Enterprises.- -He was born in Kentucky- ------------------------ Peoria, Ill., Feb. 6 - Rev. Dr. George Simmons committed suicide last night and his body was found in bed this morning. He had taken cyanide of potassium. He was pastor of the First Baptist church and president of a savings bank and recently was chosen to take charge of the Yates senatorial campaign.
Sunday morning complaint was made to the attorney general that Simmons had been corrupting the minds and morals of a number of small boys who belonged to the Baptist boys' brigade. Simmons at once resigned as pastor and from several other organizations.
He was born at Shepardsville, Ky., and had been preaching since he was seventeen years old. He had held pastorates at Henderson and Louisville, Ky., Jackson, Tenn., and Terra Haute, Ind. ------------------------------ The Rev. George Simmons, the preacher mentioned above, was well known in Paducah. Several years ago he held a protracted meeting here at the First Baptist church, and will be remembered by many of the older members of that church.
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CCHS 271: Cabinet card (4¼x6½"), unmarked as to subject or date.
Photographer: Unmarked.
Lower Image: Comparison of images known or suspected of being of Henry Walter Pierce, in approximate order of increasing age from left to right. For discussion of Henry Walter Pierce identifications, see MISC 040.
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CCHS 272: Cabinet
card (4¼x6½"), unmarked as to subject or date.
Therefore: Unknown |
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Rebecca V. Dunnican Hattie B. Duvall Selveser Elkins Zena Hubbard Stella Jacobs Annie D. Rankin Hattie Smith Carrie Woodall Neva Woodside and it is probably one of these, but none appears to be connected to Florence (Yandell) Pierce, whose album this may be.
It could also be Lucy Lenora Yandell (1883-1950), daughter of Thomas Jefferson Yandell (1825-1913) and Lovisa Elmira Armstrong (1843-1917).
She was born in July 1883, so it isn't precisely Oct. 1883.
In her favor, she is a 2nd cousin of Florence, and her photograph is available for comparison, which comparison shows similar measurements for inter-ocular distance, nose to mouth and mouth to chin distance, general nose shape, and right ear contour.
This is just a wild guess,
made in the absence of anything solid.
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If we assume that "Jake" is kin (that is, from Kentucky), there are only a few native Kentuckians in the Anoka, St. Paul & Minneapolis area in the 1900 and 1910 censes. No Pierces or other close kin are apparent.
One possibility is Jake Mount Lee (1880-1971), son of George S. Lee (1853-1940) and Felicia Orr (1860-1910), and his wife Nellie Lois (Miller) Lee (1885-1974), daughter of Frank Seymore Miller (1850-1905) and Anna Mae Cary (1858-1927).
Oddly, Jake M. Lee is not from the Pierce side of the family, but rather from the Bond side of the family, so was born in Carroll Co., KY rather than Crittenden Co., KY, hundreds of miles away. In the 1890's, he was a boyfriend of Margaret Ramey Bond (who kept and filled Albums 1-6. She married Norval Lee Pierce from Crittenden Co., KY in 1912.
Norval's middle name is Lee, and, as someone from Kentucky, one would think that it was from Robert E. Lee. Yet his father fought for the Union in the Civil War, which would make Robert E. Lee an unlikely namesake. Maybe there was already some friendship been Jake's family (who actually are related to Robert E. Lee) and both the Pierces and Bonds before the Bond/Pierce marriage.
Regardless, there is a photo of Jake M. Lee in Margaret's Album 3, and it very well could be the same person as in CCHS 277. (se comparison at the left.
Nellie also appears to be in photo
CCHS 278.
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Top, comparison of known and suspected images of Jake M. Lee, in approximate order of age left to right. For discussion of Jake Lee identifications, see MISC 0041.
Bottom, comparison of suspected images of Nellie Lois (Miller) Lee, although neither is known to be her. For discussion of Nellie Lois (Miller) Lee identifications, see MISC 0042. |
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CCHS 279:
Cabinet card (4¼x6½"), unmarked as to
subject or date. Unknown, three young women and three young men, all near 20 years old old. Crops of their faces are shown below the image of the card. The three men bear a striking similarity to each other, as do the women, as far as can be discerned. They are undoubtedly siblings. They apparently haven't been born very far apart, even though there are six of them. We are therefore looking for a family of at least three daughters and three sons, all born within a few years of 1870 (assuming that this card is c.1890 as so many have been). Such a family is probably related to or friends with Florence (Pierce) Yandell, the person who may have made the album. At the very least, such a family should be from Crittenden Co. Two such large families with strong connections to Florence are: 1) the children of John Augustus Yandell John's first wife, Margaret E. Crouch, died in 1863, leaving one daughter and two sons who survived past 1885. He married Sarah Bishop in 1864, and she gave him another six children by 1877, of whom at least three daughters and two sons survived after 1885. Florence (Pierce) Yandell married the eldest son of John Yandell, William Bennett Yandell. 2) the children of Lewis Walker Lewis Walker and his first wife, Mary Gober, had three daughters and five sons between 1858 and 1871 who survived after 1885. (He also had twelve children with his second wife, Mary L. Belt, who were probably born too late to be in this photograph, but their guardian was Judge James Perry Pierce, the father of Florence (Pierce) Yandell, after 1896.) The men in the photo appear to have light-colored hair, despite being slicked down with product. This suggests the Yandells, of whom a suspected photo of William Bennett Yandell has a description on the back referring to "strawberry-blonde hair". In fact, that photo, CCHS 212, bears a resemblance to the man standing in this cabinet card (see comparison below). And, it just so happens that the oldest six of his surviving children (of two mothers) are three daughters and three sons. So the persons in this photo could be possibly:
Fanny Yandell (1856-1930) William Bennett Yandell (1857-1940) Thomas Jefferson Yandell (1859-1934) Pressley Yandell (1865-1897) Hattie Yandell (1868-1914) Margaret Yandell (1872-1912)
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Six close-ups of the persons in the photo.'
Comparison of a photo (CCHS 212) thought to be of William Bennett Yandell to the man in the top row of the photo. |
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