THIS POST HAS BEEN SUBSTANTIALLY REVISED AND UPDATED and reposted at:"A Confederate Veteran comes to success and rest in Olivia Texas, 1908"
Revisions include the identities and histories of the people in the picture and a revised date of 1908.
Work done in Calhoun County during August 11-18, 2013 substantially improved our knowledge about the area, the history of these pictures, and the people in them. As a result, substantial revisions and additions will be made to earlier posts. A big thank you to all the people in Calhoun County Texas who made us welcome and gave us so much help during our study trip. (August 27, 2013)
The text of the original post follows.
Next week (August 11 - 18, 2013) several of my cousins and I will be meeting in Olivia, Texas to find out more about our family history and these pictures. We will be searching courthouse documents, visiting the library and museum and meeting with some of the descendants of the Peterson, Cavallin, and Haterius families (and hopefully others) who were photographed so long ago by our own Paulson family photographers. I'm looking forward to hearing their family stories and seeing their family photos. With the help of these folks we've already cleared up several of the identities in these pictures. And we are hoping to identify more and to also share our early pictures of their families. Maybe will find that some of the unidentified people in their pictures are Our Family!
I'll be giving a presentation at the public library where we will share the pictures and what we've learned. Every time I share these pictures, I learn so much from the viewers.
If you are in the area, Please Come.
Turn of the Century Olivia, Texas in Pictures
Thursday August 15th at 6pm
Calhoun County Public Library
200 West Mahan Street
Port Lavaca, TX 77979
At to the picture above: the lady holding the baby is wearing a neck scarf/tie that I've seen in a picture from elsewhere dated to 1912. A quick scan of Olivia church and census records shows that the most likely child of the age of the little girl in the picture would be the daughter of Servin Swenson and Emma Wilson Swenson. Ethel Swenson was born in November 1910. The woman holding her might be her grandmother Hanna Swenson. What do you think? A picture of Hanna, dating to about 1903, can be found in an earlier post. Could this be the same woman? Maybe we will figure it all out next week!
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Negative #: paulson328
I just found a photograph that was printed from this negative around the time it was originally taken. Someone posted it on ancestry.com. The person who posted it there states that it is Seth, Hulda, and Lora Cole. -- Bet Ison
ReplyDeleteYes, Bet, the older couple in rocking chairs are Seth Singleton Cole and his wife Hulda Simmons Cole.
ReplyDeleteIn front is their daughter, Lora Cole Brown holding her daughter, Hulda Lorena Brown McDonald. The photo was taken about 1909.
Bet...thanks for this effort..we were just directed to your blog....my mother was Ethel Peterson Abraham ....our family home place is where the N0.77 well is on the water well map...my sister and brother still live there..you can imagine the pleasure of seeing 100+ year old pictures of my mother as a child that we never knew existed, Gail Abraham Garland
ReplyDeleteIt is a real pleasure to share them too!
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