Today's prompt reads - Post a photo of one of your female ancestors. Who is in the photo? When was it taken? Why did you select this photo?
This is a photo of my 3rd Great Grandmother, Emma Katherine Dawson Horsman Beckwith. A cousin was kind enough to share this with me about 10 years ago. Emma Dawson is someone that I've not done much research on - nor have I ever really posted anything about the Dawson family on my blog - and this is why I chose her. She was born in 1865 in Virginia and died in 1936 in Vienna, Fairfax County, Virginia. Emma was married twice; first to John Thomas Horsman (my 3rd Great Grandfather), and then to Benjamin Beckwith. She was the mother of 11 children.
What a great picture. My mother's name is Emma Katherine. And she spells Katherine the same way.
ReplyDeleteI love this photograph. She looks serisou, but also very intent/intense. You have some wonderful old photographs on your blog. I'm just a little envious!
ReplyDeleteNancy.
YOu said about the month of woman history "One thing that I love about blog posts series - they make me go look at what I know, and often don't know." which I found to be true myself. I found reminders of the undone, and why it is important to get death certificates and satements from the church archives. In order to tell a story, we have to have our time line pretty much mapped out.
ReplyDeleteI like your post, sometimes you wonder what they are thinking about as they sit there an hour or more for the picture.