Friday's Photo: Edna and Mary Anne Sledge

This photo is from the collection of Mary Martin Smith. Mary's grandmother was Mary Anna Sledge who married Thomas Jefferson Martin II of Bienville Parish, Louisiana. Mary Anna was his first wife, and she passed away in 1918. 

If this Mary Sledge is Mary's grandmother (I could be wrong . . . ), who is Edna Sledge? 

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Edna and Mary Anne Sledge, photograph, n.d.; scanned image, from the privately held photo collection of Mary V. Smith, Alaska, 2004. 

Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day - 81 years ago today

Whit Criswell Bryan standing in front of the Mobile Hospital Number 2 in 1942. 

My father, Whit Criswell Bryan, was a young pharmacist mate stationed in the Territory of Hawaii when Pearl Harbor was bombed. He had only a week prior to the bombing been assigned to the USN's Mobile Hospital #2.

Dad relayed some information about the bombing and had some photos and pictures, but I really did not know much about the mobile hospital. However, the oral narrative of Dr. Henry Felch Page Jr, found at the Library of Congress, added much more to the mobile hospital pictured in my head. Click on the link to hear his stories. 

More of my Pearl Harbor Remembrance posts can be seen at the links below. 

Pearl Harbor 79th Remembrance

Friday's Photo: Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day 2012

Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day - 2019

Thoughts of Dad on Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day 2014

Remembering Dad and Pearl Harbor: Naval Mobile Hospital # 2

Friday's Photo: Pearl Harbor 

Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day - Dad was stationed at the Mobile Naval Hospital #2 in Aiea Heights, Territory of Hawaii

#52ancestors Post Fifty-One: The Second Anniversary of Mobile Hospital No. 2, Pearl Harbor - August 1943 

Friday's Photo: Pearl Harbor Survivors, Whit Bryan and Bob Brunner - 1991

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Henry Felch Page, Jr. Collection (AFC/2001/001/24783), Veterans History Project, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress

Friday's Photo: Minnie Thomas - Who were her parents?

This photo is from the Marguerite Cook Clark collection. Minnie's name is written in green ink, like many others, and was probably labeled by Marguerite's mother, Maggie Martin Cook.

My original scan of this photo was dark. Using the photo-enhancing tool at My Heritage, I was able to clean up the image and get a good look at the young girl's face. 

I did not make headway in the identification of Minnie Thomas. I assume, but I need to know for sure that Minnie or her family lived in or near Bienville Parish, Louisiana, at one time or another. This photo was a tintype and as they were used from the 1850s to the early 20th century, dating the picture is difficult. 

Was Minnie her nickname or her given name? And what about Thomas? Was that her family's surname or her married name? 

Do you have Minnie Thomas in your family tree? 

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Minnie Thomas photograph, n.d.; digital image, from the privately held photo collection of Marguerite Cook Clark (1913-1989), Waynesville, North Carolina, 2022. Photos were accessed and scanned at the home of Marguerite Cook Clark's daughter in Alpine, Texas on April 28, 2014, September 14, 2014, and November 9 to 11, 2016.