There are more questions than answers about this photo. As a family history researcher, I am always looking into the lives of my ancestors, but it is a real bonus to see the inside of their homes. This is obviously someone's home and might be the home of Henry B. Giddens. He was a first cousin of my second great-grandfather, George L. Giddens. I wonder if George ever sat at this table.
This photo was generously shared with me by another Giddens researcher. Henry was named as well as his daughter, Jennie, on the right in the white dress.
In 1910, Henry and his wife, Martha Jane Vann, owned a home on Fayetteville Street in Clinton, Sampson County, North Carolina. Could this be the home on Fayetteville Street?
Jennie was born in 1886. She would have been 14 years old in 1900, but she looks older than 14 in this photo giving it a date after 1900. The young man and the other young woman in the picture are not identified. The young man could be a teenager. By 1910, Henry's youngest son, Oscar Henry, was 32 years old. However, Henry was a guardian to four grandsons ages 12 to 18, as his daughter, Annie Laura Slocumb, died in 1905, leaving Henry as guardian.
C. O. Brown was a photographer in both Sampson and Wayne counties. He was found advertising in local newspapers between 1898 and 1916. Why was he taking pictures inside the home? Was it a special occasion? Everyone in the photo was well dressed. Jennie married in 1908, and Maggie married in 1907. Were they getting ready for a wedding?
If you have answers to any of my questions OR more questions, I would love to hear from you.
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| Henry Benjamin Giddens |
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| Unidentified |
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| Unidentified |
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| Jennie Louise Giddens |
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© 2022 1910 U.S. Census, Sampson, North Carolina, population schedule, North Clinton, enumeration district 92, page 2A, dwelling 27, family 27, Henry B. Giddens household; digital images, Ancestry.com (https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/7884/images/4449725_01068? : accessed 16 October 2022); citing NARA microfilm publication T624, roll 1132.
Grubba, "Jordans, Britts and beyond," public tree, Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/tree/64204927?cfpid=44116712787&dtid=100 : accessed 27 October 2022).
Henry Giddens and Others in the Dining Room, photo, after 1900; scanned images, from the privately-held collection of Gus Grubba, NC, 2022.
C.O. Browns Photo Gallery, Goldsboro Weekly Argus (Goldsboro, North Carolina), 23 June 1898, p.3; database with images, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/clip/112542612/c-o-brown-photo-gallery-1898/: accessed 28 October 2022).
"Be Quick," The News Dispatch (Clinton, North Carolina), 07 Sept 1916, p.3; database with images, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/clip/112542781/c-o-brown-1916/: accessed 28 October 2022).
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