The firstborn in the family of Samuel Jackson Lewis & Martha Love Barker was my Aunt Belle. She was named for her Aunt Mary Barker French. The hoop in this picture were very common toys in the old days. A peddler came through Lake Tahoe when my son Pieter was a boy & I bought one for him and he grew up running along spinning the iron hoop.
She's so long-legged and sturdy; she looks athletic. The fact that she was photographed with a hoop, not a doll, suggests that she was an outdoor girl who liked to be in motion! I like her.β€οΈ
Mary Belle (Lewis) McPhetridge was born on March 18, 1867. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Mary Belle (Lewis) McPhetridge .
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Bethel Nadine Holmes of the gold dredging town of Hammonton, Calif. Author of "Peeks Into Sierra Pantries" & "Wood Chips To Game Chips, History of North Lake Tahoe Casinos." Retired from Univ of Nevada Library. Grandaughter of Samuel Jackson Lewis & Martha Love Barker and John Hughes Holmes & Clarissa Angella Laine. Descendant of Wm Braden & Euphemia Jackson, Van Rensselaer Holmes & Elizabeth Ross (dau of Ignatius), Melissa Sheral, Casandra Le Sueur, and James Barker & Martha Patsie Love Emmitt.