Friday's Photo: The earliest photo I have of my grandmother - Enhanced!

This is the earliest known photo of my grandmother, Edith Giddens. She told my mother she was 16 years old. This was probably taken in or very near Phillipsburg, New Jersey. My grandmother's sisters, Elizabeth and Florence, are on the back row. 

Katherine and Anna Butler were probably the daughters of Charles Butler and Catherine Kelly, also of Phillipsburg. 

The faces are difficult to see so I enlarged and cropped it to create the photo below. Better but not very clear. As My Heritage is offering their photo enhancing services free until September 10, my next step was to try both enhancing and colorizing the photo. 

The girls in the front row, Anna and Edith, look improved. The women in the back continue to be fuzzy. 

From the Files of Marguerite Cook Clark: Could this be Ellen Cook Kelly?

Could this be Ellen Cook Kelly?
Also seen as Elizabeth Eleanor Cook and Eleanor O. Cook
Sister to Marguerite Cook Clark's grandfather, Napoleon Bonaparte Cook
Mother to Frank Kelly 
December 17, 1956 to October 16, 1935

Ellen is written on the left, but something written on the right is not legible

If this is Ellen Cook Kelly, she would also be the sister of Mary Samantha Cook Clayton and mother to Frank Kelly. 









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Diana

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Sources

Ancestry.com. Public Member Trees [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2006. Original data: Family trees submitted by Ancestry members.

Ellen Cook Kelly (1856 - 1935) - Find A Grave Memorial. N.p., n.d. Web. 28 Aug. 2017. <https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSvcid=421492&GRid=39390361&>.

Family photographs and documents from the collection of Marguerite Cook Clark. Accessed April 28, 2014, September 14, 2014, and November 9 to 11, 2016. Used with permission.

From the Files of Marguerite Cook Clark: Frank Kelly

Frank Kelly
April 4, 1887 to June 4, 1966
Son of Elizabeth Eleanor "Ellen" Cook Kelly, sister to Napoleon Bonaparte Cook,
and John W. Kelly
Buried along with his mother and other family members at
Heidelberg Cemetery (click to see) in Heidelberg, Jasper County, Mississippi

According to Marguerite Cook Clark's daughter, cousin Frank Kelly was living in the Cook family home with his first cousin, George Clayton Cook, son of Napoleon Bonaparte Cook along with two of George Clayton's sisters - Roberta "Bert" and Samantha "Bannie."

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Diana

© 2017

Sources

Ancestry.com. Public Member Trees [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2006. Original data: Family trees submitted by Ancestry members.

Family photographs and documents from the collection of Marguerite Cook Clark. Accessed April 28, 2014, September 14, 2014, and November 9 to 11, 2016. Used with permission.