Several years ago my parents purchased an album of very old photographs at an auction. The people in the pictures are not related to us (not that we know of anyway, but it's Randolph County, so you never know), but my parents couldn't bear to see this beautiful album go to the trash heap. Fortunately, the subjects of the portraits were mostly labeled, so I was able to piece together bits of the family history.
I posted on a couple of different genealogy message boards saying that I had the album if anyone would like to see the pictures, and I ended up mailing a CD of the photos to several researchers. Then I had a computer crash, and I still haven't been able to find my backup CD of those photos. I recently took the time to scan all the photos again because I've had a number of researchers contact me about them. I've decided to focus this blog on the Ward & Pettyjohn Photo Album for the next several posts, since blogging about the photos seems like a simpler way to share them with many people. I don't know how much time I will be able to devote to blogging through the holiday season, but I'm going to make an effort to post photos regularly.
I've decided to start with Margery (or is it Marjorie?) McKew simply because I received an email about her a few days ago. The notes written on the photo seem to indicate Mrs. McKew was the sister of both Eleanor Ward and Joab Ward (I think Joab Jr. would be this lady's brother). Perhaps Margery was named after her grandmother, since many family trees on Rootsweb have the senior Joab Ward's mother listed as Margery Piggott (while others list his mother as Margaret Piggott). Stay tuned for more photos and a family tree of the Ward & Pettyjohn families of Randolph County, Indiana!
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