Friday's Photo: A Dublin, Texas Postcard

Written around the edges of the card - 08 July 6, Will write you if I can get a minutes time.
Was so glad to get a letter from you. Wish you many returns. Ever Yours, Frannie E Bryan

I used to love to spend time looking at postcards in antique shops. I would buy local-to-me cards and cards from places my family lived. This card is from Dublin, a town in Erath County, Texas.

My grandparents, Redic Bryan, and Myrtie Hairston, lived in Dublin when they first married in 1900. Redic owned the Exchange Saloon until about May of that same year when it was written that he sold his business to I. A. "Dutch" Allard. 

The postcard was sent on 6 July 1908 to Mrs. J Tom White in Midland, Texas, by Frannie E. Bryan, whose address is unknown. I did a cursory search for each of them with no success. There was a J. Tom White buried in Midland with only his name on a stone, but there were no other clues in census records or otherwise for J. Tom White. 

I thought that Frannie Bryan might be the wife of Hardy Hooker Bryan of Granbury but Hardy did not marry his wife, Frances Almeda Gorden (also seen as Franeee and Fannie), until 1914. This postcard was sent in July 1908. 

A much more thorough search needs to be completed to find Frannie's family. I don't believe that Frannie is connected to my Bryan family. 

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Diana

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Exchange Saloon, The Dublin Progress (Dublin, Texas), 4 May 1900; database and images, The Portal to Texas History (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth531077/m1/4/zoom/? : accessed 27 January 2020).

Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/41666604/j-tom-white: accessed 9 June 2023), memorial page for J Tom White (unknown–unknown), Find a Grave Memorial ID 41666604, citing Fairview Cemetery, Midland, Midland County, Texas, USA; Maintained by Knightchow (contributor 46543031).

leisureladynozark, Childers/Gordon Family, Ancestry.com (https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/tree/41206900/family/familygroup : accessed 8 June 2023).

"Patrick Street, Looking, North Dublin, Texas," ca.1908, scanned image, original card found in the privately held collection of Diana Bryan Quinn, Virginia Beach, VA, 2023.

R E Bryan sold fixtures and business, The Dublin Progress (Dublin, Texas), 18 May 1900; database and images, The Portal to Texas History (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth531077/m1/4/zoom/? : accessed 27 January 2020).