Treasure Chest Thursday - Asher Slemmons & Martha Franklin

Extra! Extra! See your extra bonus!

Today you get an extra bonus. Again my aunt has sooooo many pictures that I thought I would double up on the postings.

Here is a picture that is GREAT! From the definition found on the Daguerrotype FAQ page of the Dagurreian Society website I believe it to be an ambrotype photograph. The pictures are of Asher Slemmons and Martha Susan Franklin.

Here is the outside of the case:

And what it looks like opened up:

Here is a close-up of the left side:

This is Asher Slemmons, my great-great grandfather and he looks pretty young here. He was born 22 Mar 1821 in Barren County, Kentucky.

A close-up of the right side:

This is Martha Susan Franklin, my great-great grandmother, and like Asher she looks very young here. Martha was born 26 Aug 1824 in Sumner County, Tennessee, the daughter of Richard T Franklin and Mary Thompson.

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Treasure Chest Thursday - Slemmons Album pages 14 - 15

Please, please, please everyone calm down. Here is the next edition of the Slemmons Photo Album! I know everyone is just chomping at the bit to see what is coming up next....Hee!Hee! Sorry folks again I just couldn't resist.

Anyway, here are the next pages to the Slemmons Album that I have been posting. This week you get an extra bonus, because there was a post card placed in between two pages. I am calling the post card page 14 a.

Here are pages 14, 14 a & 15:

Page 14:

The paper label has "Zella Williams, sister of Zora Williams" Zora and Zella are daughters of Dudley Williams and Mary Susan Slemmons. As you may remember last week's posting had Zella's sister, Zora Williams, as a baby and as a teenager. That posting is found here. Zella Williams was born 3 Mar 1884 and the daughter of Mary Elizabeth Slemmons, daughter of Asher and Martha, and her husband Dudley W. Williams. Zella never married and died in 1960.

And of course here is a closer look at Zella:

Here is page 15 and I won't have a close-up of it as it is already pretty close:

This is a picture that I call the "two Fannie's". As you can read, it has Fannie Slemmons, who later married John William Barton, and Fannie Munday, who later married William Yates. The two Fannie's are sitting on either side of Martha Susan Franklin Slemmons, who is my great-great grandmother.

Here is 14a:

As the card reads this is a family picture of Dudley Williams, his wife Mary Susan Slemmons and their daughters, Zella Susan Williams and Zora Slemmons Williams. The photographers studio is Buell & Wife Marrowbone, Kentucky. As in previous postings, Marrowbone is in Cumberland County, Kentucky where they lived.

And lastly here is a close-up of 14a:

See ya next week!

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Treasure Chest Thursday - Slemmons Album pages 12 - 13

This week continues the postings from the Slemmons album that my aunt owns. 

Today's offering is from pages 12 & 13:

Treasure Chest Thursday - Slemmons album pages 10 - 11

I'mmmm back with more pages of the Slemmons photo album. As I have said in past postings, these are digital pictures that I have taken of a photo album my aunt owns.

Today's pages are 10 & 11:

Proud to be a DAR member

It's times like now that I am so proud to be a member of the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution!

I'm sitting at home in Louisville and watching the goings on at the National Congress in Washington DC.....on my computer! They are streaming it live on their website....AWESOME!

This is in addition to the announcement they made this morning. What was the announcement, you ask? Well, this morning they (DAR) announced that starting today a record copy of Nationally approved applications can be paid for (with a credit card of course) and downloaded immediately from their website. WOW! No waiting, no mailings, no waiting, no paying postage, no waiting, no having to write a check (mom what are those?)...did I mention no waiting?

AWESOME!
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