I’ve gathered a collection
of my loose family photos and have begun scanning them. I had thought everyone was scanned until I
opened one folder. This one says Mrs. MM
Hunt…. Margaret Millicent Hunt Hyde, perhaps taken during the civil war era…1861
through 1865.
This image of Mrs. Hyde is
dated 1870. The gentle smile of the first image is gone,
and a stern face now stares to the side of the camera. I wish I knew more about her.
This last image is
approximately 1909. A handful of other
photographs were taken that day. How I
wish they had been dated. Maybe my
cousin Tom, who reads my blog almost every day, knows more about Mrs. MM Hunt.
This Margaret Millicent was my Grandfather’s grandmother. My mother was named after her, as was his sister,
myself, and one of my children plus two of my grandchildren.
Perhaps there should be a
site for Margaret Millicent’s.
Folk looked very serious in the old, old photographs.
ReplyDeleteDid some gardening and cleaning out pots for winter, not as much exercise as I should be doing!!
ReplyDeleteAny is better than none. I went shopping for fabrics in a very crowded JoAnne's. That sort of doubled my exercise.
DeleteI love the pictures of the women in your family. What a treasure to have them! How wonderful!
ReplyDeleteBack in the day, they didn't smile for pics, but I see her mouth as being similar in both pics. The last photo is amateurish and it harsher light but shows great character. Gotta love them all.
ReplyDeleteI'm sorry, but that first picture makes her look like she's a spy for the Union, a man dressed up as a woman. Having just stepped away from the Civil War prep, I'm thinking of a whole group of presenters who are doing a talk this weekend on female spies who dressed as male soldiers.
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