One day, I was at my grandfather's house looking through some old photo albums that belonged to my great-grandmother, Lucile Anderson. In one of the albums, I came across a picture (bottom) and I noticed the similarities the woman in that photo had to my great-great-great grandmother, Erzelia Baker Garfield (top). The similarities that really stuck out to me were the hair and eyes.
So I got to thinking, could it be her? Aside from similarities, I have no way of proving it. There was no caption underneath the photo. And I realized the photo had to be pretty old because it itself was printed out on some sort of hard material. If I had to guess, I would say that the photo on the right was taken during the final years of Erzelia's life (she died in 1887 at the age of 49).
I know the photo is a little fuzzy but the photo was glued to the actual page and I didn't want to rip it out so I took a picture of it with my iTouch (I didn't have a flatbed scanner nearby and even if I did, I would still be hesitant to use it on something so old).
If I could get some second opinions on this, it would be greatly appreciated.
Hi David,
ReplyDeleteI don't think it is same woman...but quite possible upper photo could be daughter to older one...bottom picture seems to have different bone structure and chin is longer...