Martha Elvira Gaston (Jones)

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01/29/2016

What a dignified lady! Martha Elvira Gaston, born 1840, taken in Buncombe County North Carolina in 1910.

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Patrick Harlow

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01/29/2016

Wonder what her smile
Looked like

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Backyard Mechanic

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01/29/2016

Bet she's got a broom stick up her back.

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Silvia Doe

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01/29/2016

What a nice dress

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Chelsea Walterscheid

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01/29/2016

Seen herself, surely.

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Chelsea Walterscheid

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01/29/2016

*sewn

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Silvia Doe

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01/29/2016

Probable

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Cindy Howard

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01/29/2016

Duane Gaston, is this a relative

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Duane Gaston

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01/29/2016

Cindy, not that I am aware of... though, it is a very nice photo!

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Wanda Carr

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01/29/2016

Fabulous photo!!!!

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Robyn Helms Baker

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01/29/2016

Those are certainly a working woman's hands.

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Joye Linnae

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01/29/2016

Eerie. My mother looks like her - she is my mom's doppelgänger!

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Beverly Ross Nance

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01/29/2016

So Petit

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Kimberley A Smith-Cooper

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01/29/2016

Widow....

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Kimberley A Smith-Cooper

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Anthony Keaveney

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01/29/2016

Looks like she's sat in the electric chair

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Judy Kates

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01/29/2016

Such grace

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Terri Allen

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01/29/2016

Nice picture.

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Carmen Roman Galindo

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01/29/2016

Is she alive?

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Tony Chappell

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01/29/2016

yes she is!!!

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Carol Haynes Stallein

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01/29/2016

if she was born in 1840 then she is gone now...

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Bernice Jones

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01/29/2016

LOL

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Helen Phillips

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01/29/2016

She's lovely.xx

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Fallon OBrien

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01/29/2016

That's a "Butherface!" Everything looks fine...But her face!

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Sharon Turner

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01/29/2016

Don't be so rude and unkind. She may have sat ages having this taken in those days.

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Lori Viereckl

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01/29/2016

Look who's talking

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Fallon OBrien

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01/29/2016

Hey without the glasses...I'm an Adonis!!!

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Philip Henry

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01/29/2016

The Picture is beautiful I love that chair I probably would like that old lady she could tell you a lot of great stories

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Saya Helix

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01/29/2016

Joshua Lee Gaston your last names.

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Saya Helix

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01/29/2016

No >:l she's your great great great great great grandma.

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Joshua Lee Gaston

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01/29/2016

my names everywhere doe

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Giuseppe Sorbello

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01/29/2016

Un po' spettrale ma va bene lo stesso per la qualità della foto.

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Marilyn Cunningham

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01/29/2016

Wow she looks like a REALLY strict school marm!!!!

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Vicky Feehan

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01/29/2016

That is what I was thinking "I did not do it teacher." LOL

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Marilyn Cunningham

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01/29/2016

I know right?! All she needs is the ruler in her hand. Maybe she put it down for the picture. Baa, haa, haa, haaaaaaaa!!!!!!!

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Ashlyn Weaver

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01/29/2016

Pics took a long time to take back then so that's why you'll find alot of stern expressions.

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Marilyn Cunningham

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01/29/2016

Its not just the stern look its the dress she's wearing also. It just looks like the type of dress a teacher would wear back then to look nice but still she didn't play.

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Kirsten Bullins

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01/29/2016

I posted this photo...she was my husband's 3rd great grandmother and apparently a wonderful woman.

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Lori Viereckl

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01/29/2016

Thanks for sharing

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Rose Gasak

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01/29/2016

She is lovely , looks a little tired for having to sit too long but just lovely . I don't think she looks stern or mean or anything but beautiful.

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Gwen Moreland Richmond

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02/08/2016

A beautiful treasure to still have of a love one...

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Rachael Rawson

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01/29/2016

Classy, but stern woman, yet I bet she was very kind!

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Lorna Carr

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01/29/2016

My mom used to wear that look when she was down or tired.( 9 kids do that to ya...)

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Marianne Roberts Bouloy

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01/29/2016

People looked this way in old time photographs because it took a long time for the film to expose. If they moved, the picture would blur. So a lot of the time they "froze" instead of a more natural smile.

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Wilma Hammarström

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01/29/2016

they also photographed a lot of death people, in the way as they were alive.

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Patricia Gaffney

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02/04/2016

People did not bare their teeth back then for photos to reveal a "natural smile". This was not only for the technical reason you cite, but also it was considered unattractive, coarse and common to take a photo with one's teeth showing like piano keys, as is popular today. Frankly I think they were right.

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Mary Schumaci

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01/29/2016

vintage photos..love them.

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Laura Harmon Vickers

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01/29/2016

Look at her hands ! They tell a story of her life . What a great picture !

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Carol Wheeler

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01/29/2016

👍

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Diane Orrvar Stone

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01/29/2016

I love this picture..so simplictic yet elegant

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Carol Haynes Stallein

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01/29/2016

you are so lucky to have this family picture.. life was hard back then for women.. and she stood the test of time..

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Patricia Gaffney

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02/04/2016

Actually, she's only 26! (that's how hard life was back then).

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Dianne Hull

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01/29/2016

What a fantastic picture!

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Jim Retzer

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01/29/2016

Cleaned it up a little.
You can just tell this woman held the power in her family; and she knew it. Such a stern and dignified face.

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Judy Lunceford

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01/29/2016

Beautiful work, I love how you brought this photo to life

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Jim Retzer

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01/29/2016

If I had access to a high-resolution scan of the original, I would seriously entertain hand-coloring it as well.

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Narelle Skewes-Foden

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01/29/2016

A matriarch 😊

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Mark Rush

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01/29/2016

she looks grouchy

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BarbaraMerry Geng

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01/29/2016

Is this one of those old time photos done on glass ?

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Debbie Goth

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01/29/2016

Sue Moyer who does this remind you of?

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01/29/2016

Denise Tyree

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Michelle Albers

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01/29/2016

I always like to observe people's hands in old photographs..... I imagine they could tell such a story.

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Stephen Dale Witten

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01/29/2016

A beauty, I would say.

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Maha Witwit

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01/29/2016

It looks as though something's wrong with her neck and hiding it with that scarf or maybe just a double chin!

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Rose Gasak

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01/29/2016

Damn ,couldn't say it was a nice picture

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Carolyn Stephenson

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01/29/2016

Its the collar of the dress. It's a lovely picture of someone who was treasured! You need to bone up on fashion prior to exposing your ignorance

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Maha Witwit

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01/29/2016

Carolyn Stephenson wow thats a bit harsh i just saw two nodes under her chin and as medical woman it got me interested

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Narelle Skewes-Foden

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01/29/2016

Easy mistake to make Carolyn the pic probably just popped up in Mahas feed and she commented didnt have time to research fashion from 1910

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Linda Robertson-Hutcheson Scherr

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01/29/2016

I love this dress.

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Tami Pino

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01/29/2016

Tiny waist

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Jane Peel

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01/29/2016

Looks like a stern teacher

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Dawn Haight

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01/29/2016

Wondering if that was her Sunday's best.. Very pretty dress.. I see wisdom in her eyes... Thank you for sharing it.. :-)

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Mary Kimes

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01/29/2016

Stunning

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Cecilia Robbins

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01/29/2016

Very elegant looking and proper! Beautiful dress. Her hands look like she had to work hard during her life. Wondering if she made her dress? She had a beautiful figure...still small waisted and proportional for her years. Obviously she had good genes!

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Ann Billingsley

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01/29/2016

Equally interesting is the chair she is sitting in ! Anybody familiar with the style.....i have never come across one in my years as a dealer. Comments welcomed !

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Serena Williams

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01/29/2016

I remember we had a chair like that at my grandmothers lake house in the seventies with leather upholstery and brass like buttons lining it edges.

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Carolyn Stephenson

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01/29/2016

I had one similar that passed down from my great grandfather. Circa 1860 The back & seat were leather it was paired with a library table & rocking chair they now reside with my son.

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Ann Billingsley

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01/29/2016

Carolyn Stephenson You may want to photograph the pieces...measure them and go to library looking for books Roycrofters or furniture from the Frank Lloyd Wright era. They could be original pieces. Happy hunting !

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David Maroney

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01/29/2016

Great chair

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Teresa Regenold

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01/29/2016

Looks unhappy.

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Ann Billingsley

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01/29/2016

Collar fairly typical for the times...women kept very covered up...and detachable collars could cover any number of dresses. As to her hands...they look arthritic and posed the way a lady placed her hands to look relaxed and proper even today.

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Pam Centers Lee

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01/29/2016

I love these old photos!

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Siannon Birch

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01/29/2016

huge hands!

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Monica Pezderic Lavoie

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01/29/2016

Cindy Alfano-Flindt kinda reminds me of your Mom

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Cindy Alfano-Flindt

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01/29/2016

Wow totally, how did you come across this? neat.

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Monica Pezderic Lavoie

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01/29/2016

I go into this site now and again.. So it pops up on my feed

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Rita Parisi

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01/29/2016

She actually looks good for a 70 year old woman from this time. And she has kind eyes which have seen a lot. She was a young woman in her 20's during the Civil War; it wasn't easy for her or her family.

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Martha Sanchez Ponce

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01/29/2016

MY NAME IS MARTHA ¡¡¡JA JA JA I BAS BORN 1884

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Melba McDaniel

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01/29/2016

Look at that dress,women had a hard life back then,wonder how old she was.

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Rita Craig

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01/29/2016

It's possible she could be a memento Mori photo alot of people during this time period took photos of the dead as a keep sake

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Kathy Cliburn Tappe

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01/29/2016

Love old pictures. The dress is lovely.

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Monika Pawłowska

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01/29/2016

Jarzynka to ty???

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Mary E Flores

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01/29/2016

I like the way they would cover their necks😊 That way one does not have to show ones wrinkles! ! !

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Sharon Kellett Formando

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01/29/2016

Beautiful...hard working woman! I really like the chair!!

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Ilze Choi

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01/29/2016

beautiful dress.

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Mary Crestani Silantyev

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01/29/2016

Thank you Marianne Roberts Bouloy great information.

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Julie Vallance

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01/29/2016

a gentle lady i think her eyes tell me so

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Narelle Skewes-Foden

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01/29/2016

Love these old photos....feels like their eyes look right through you

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Michelle Haggard

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01/29/2016

I couldn't stand that collar around my neck...

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Debra Carruthers

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01/29/2016

Something so beautiful about this picture!! I love it...

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Becky Kelly

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01/29/2016

Love these old Pictures.

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Tracy Holtze

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01/29/2016

I love that you can usually identify these fabulous people! So often our old photos are unknown lost ancients!

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Willy Dereany

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01/29/2016

Elegant

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Filippa De Rossi

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01/29/2016

Dead?

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Mary McCartney

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01/29/2016

To me, she shows dignity, grace and a humble, Godly woman.

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Alma Frankel

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01/30/2016

i am reading ( for the 6th time) " anne of green gables", and this photo reminds me of marilla cuthbert! this is how i imagine her!

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Stephanie Saffo

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01/30/2016

She'd been thru the civil war!

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Melissa Gelder

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01/30/2016

Who was she has anyone researched? I might have to do that

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Gale R. Gough

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01/30/2016

I like her "handsome" face - very strong and attractive. She looks tiny.

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Chris Coyle

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01/30/2016

Thanks from Asheville!!!!!!

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Pamela Diez

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02/03/2016

She is ancient.

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Donna Hull Tew

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02/12/2016

I wonder if I am related?My mothers family were Jones from just southwest of Asheville. My Great Great Grandmother was from Asheville....she was a Coshea.

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