Rice Co KS Old Photos

Ellen Brooks - possibly

Gerald Mendenhall — Sat, 18 May 2013 18:12:15 -0500

I believe that the woman is Ellen Brooks, a sister of my paternal grandmother

Ellen was the daughter of Mary Queer Brooks Skiles. Her husband's name would be Harmon Skiles. Ellen was born in Maryland in 1869. Mary was born in Somerset County, PA in 1831. Harmon was born in about 1817. The photo looks like it was taken about 1890.

Harmon and Mary moved from Pittsburg PA about 1880 to Hamilton County NE. Then they moved from NE to Rice County, KS about 1885 where both a buried. In the 1880 census Ellen Brooks was 11 years old. Her father was Samuel Brooks b about 1804 and died in about 1869 probably in MD.

This photo was in a "Mother's Box" of cards and letters kept by my Grandmother Elizabeth Brooks Mendenhall Whetstone Mendenhall who died in 1940 in Central City, NE.

View back of the photo
http://www.familyoldphotos.com/images2/ellenbrooks-back1.jpg

View photo that might be Ellen with the Skiles family
http://www3.familyoldphotos.com/photo/pennsylvania/923/ellen-brooks-skil...

Ellen Brooks and the Skiles Family - possibly

Gerald Mendenhall — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 01:30:01 -0600

I suspect that the older woman is her mother who is holding the younger woman's baby. The older man is probably the older woman's second husband. I, also, believe that the younger woman is a sister of my paternal grandmother.

If this is the correct family the older woman's name is Mary Queer Brooks Skiles. Her husband's name would be Harmon Skiles. The younger woman's name would be Ellen Brooks (unmarried so far as I know). She was born in Maryland in 1869. Mary was born in Somerset County, PA in 1831. Harmon was born in about 1817. The photo looks like it was taken about 1890.

This photo was in a "Mother's Box" of cards and letters kept by my Grandmother Elizabeth Brooks Mendenhall Whetstone Mendenhall who died in 1940 in Central City, NE. The message "sure death for mice and rats" indicates familiarity as well as does absence of signiture and identification.

I would like to identify the persons in the photos. Elizabeth and Ellen had sibling brothers, Jacob, Edd, William and Charles who settled in OH, IL and PA.

The photo is on a postcard that was mailed at a post office in Archer. I can't make out what state, but it may be Merrick County, Nebraska in 1912.
View the back of the photograph
http://www.familyoldphotos.com/images2/EllenBrooks-back2.jpg

View photo of the younger woman by herself
http://www3.familyoldphotos.com/photo/maryland/924/ellen-brooks-possibly

Cynthia Iness Sweeney

michaelkrs1 — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 16:22:37 -0500

Cynthia Iness Sweeney was born 3 Dec 1894 in Kansas, USA. And died young 24 Nov 1906 in Fairland, Ottawa, Oklahoma, USA.
Cynthia Was the daughter of Evan Thomas & Mary Ettie (Frances) Sweeney.

Philip and Catherine M. Mohney Headstone

John Wayne Mohney — Sat, 20 Nov 2010 03:39:39 -0600

Philip Mohney (1847-1916),was the son of John Adam Mohney and his wife Sarah Ann Bittenbender of Clarion County, PA. He married Catherine Doverspike (1857-1932). Both Philip and Catherine were born in Clarion County, PA. They are buried in Lyons, KS.