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Metadata
Title |
Wellman-Williamson Family photos |
Collection |
Wellman-Williamson Family Photograph Collection |
Catalog Number |
018PC10 |
Date |
ca. 1860s-1870s |
Location |
Kentucky / Boyd County / Ashland |
Description |
A small grouping of tin-types and cartes-de-visite of members of the Wellman, Williamson, and Burgess families of Boyd County, Kentucky. The photographs were included within and removed from the geneological portion of the family bible. Featured in the collection are Susan Burgess Wellman, William "McGuffey" Wellman, Wallace J. Williamson, John B. Wellman, Ceres Wellman Williamson, Pearl and Harry Davis, Ben Williamson, Jeremiah Wellman, George Burgess, John Burgess, and Martha Spurlock Burgess. John B. Wellman (son of Jeremiah Wellman and Zerilda Bowen) and Susan Burgess (daughter of George Burgess and Martha Spurlock) married in Boyd County on October 1, 1860. They had two children, William McGuffy Wellman and Ceres Wellman Williamson. Ceres was married to Ben Williamson, and they were the parents of Wallace J. Williamson. Images digitized: 018PC10.01: Identified as Jeremiah Wellman, Catlettsburg, Kentucky. (According to photographers backmar, photograph was taken ca. 1880s, after Jeremiah's death. Unsure of identification.) 018PC10.04: John B. Wellman, ca. 1870s 018PC10.05: Tintype of Susan Burgess Wellman, aged abour 30 years, ca. 1875 018PC10.06: Carte-de-visite of Susan Burgess Wellman, ca. 1870 018PC10.09: Tintype of Ceres Wellman as a baby, ca. 1870 018PC10.11: Carte-de-visite of Ceres Wellman Williamson, ca. 1890s 018PC10.12: Carte-de-visite of Ben Williamson at age 16, ca. 1880 018PC10.13: Tintype of Wallace J. Williamson with an unidentified Black woman, ca. 1895. The woman is possibly Ida Minor, who was listed as a servant for the Williamson family in 1900. 018PC10.14: Carte-de-visite of McGuffey Wellman as a young boy, ca. 1868 |
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Families Genealogy |