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Can I identify the person in a photo without a name? I purchased this photo for a dollar at the fireman's monthly estate sale. It is from the Edrington studio of Weslaco, Texas. Weslaco is in Hidalgo County, Texas. There is no name on the photo. However, there is a lot of other information. Between the existing photo and the missing one is "Dec. 25- 1931."  Below the photo of the woman is "Mother- Born April 6, 1869 (62 yrs) Xenia Kansas Died in Pampa Texas Dec 29-1954 heart attack  married Feb 22 1886 Married 45 yrs when taken here." Beneath the now missing photo is "Dad- Born Aig 9, 1860 - (71 yrs) Lansing, Michigan  Died in Hospital Victoria Texas June 4, 1933 car accident concussion of skull."  I checked Findagrave.com for the two, putting in their birth and death years and searching Victoria County (where Victoria is) and Gray County (where Pampa is). No luck. I then went to Ancestry public trees and typed in the woman's exact birth and death ...
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I purchased this photo at the local fire-persons monthly sale. It is obviously a reprint of another photo. No studio mark.  On the back in blue ink is: "Taken on the farm at Pond Creek Okla after we were all married & having our families left to right Ollie Mar Mother Dad Bernard Myrle LeRoy" Ollie, Mae, Mother, Dad, Bernard, Myrle, Leroy (the child peeking between Dad and Bernard is not identified). Pond Creek is a small town in Grant County, Oklahoma. I started searching censuses for the family in Pond Creek, but then switched to Grant County when nothing was coming up.  I focused on the names Myrtle [I was misreading Myrle for Myrtle] and Bernard. Couldn't find them in the 1930 or 1920 or 1910 censuses. In the 1900 census I searched for Bernard and found the following family in Berry, Grant County: Jason T. Elder, 39, head Allena Elder, 30, wife Ollie E. Elder, 13, daughter Katy M. Elder, 11, daughter Robert V. Elder, 7, son Clara M. Elder, 3, daughter Jason L. El...