Nancy Jane Wright Hughes

09/24/2019

Born in 1849, she died at age 66 (yes, so young!). Although obviously ill in this photo, there seems to be such determination in her face and posture.

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Reta Berry

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09/24/2019

Looks like a portrait of one of my aunts by marriage.

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Reta Berry

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09/24/2019

She was married to one of my dad's brothers.

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Jean Newman-Briggs

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09/24/2019

What did she die from?

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Reta Berry

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09/25/2019

Cancer

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Lynda Lerum

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09/24/2019

what a treasure

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Carol Piquard Compton Weir

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09/24/2019

Lovely old photo.

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Ree Young

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09/24/2019

Poor lady! She looks much older than 66, but she also looks so frail. ndshe's in a wheelchair, so she must have been sickly, maybe even with something that is treatable nowadays.

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Marilynn Marlow

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09/24/2019

66 was not necessarily young then. Wonderful treasure!

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Melissa Lowman

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09/24/2019

Is that handle by her hand a part of the chain next to the wheelchair? It looks like she could turn those and make the chair move. A pre cursor to a motorized wheelchair.

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Gale R. Gough

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09/24/2019

Good observation!

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Nadia Quark

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09/24/2019

66 is not so young for the time! Beautiful lady

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Reta Berry

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09/24/2019

My aunt by marriage is not the woman in the photo but I dare say a direct descendant of my mom's family and almost a century later my Mom married my dad and my and Gaye my dad's brother Mark.

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Donna Richwalski Winski

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09/24/2019

They worked hard and when they got sick, sat until they died. We were born in an age of miracle drugs to keep us going. They prob drank a lot to deal with their ills.

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Anna Kakol

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09/24/2019

What did she die from ( if I may ask ) ? It was the age of consumption and so many left their loved ones way to soon . 😢

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Valenchia Sundin Hershberger

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09/24/2019

Wow, she looks old!

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Carol Neuner-Moore

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09/24/2019

All of us will look old one day. She’s beautiful!

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Valenchia Sundin Hershberger

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09/24/2019

Carol Neuner-Moore oh she is beautiful, no question there. It's no doubt she had a hard life, though.

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Trudie Cruey

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09/24/2019

only 66, bless her heart

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Gloria Rodas

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09/24/2019

66 was NOT young in those days, it was elderly, in fact.

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Carol Neuner-Moore

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09/24/2019

A wonderful family photo to have!!!

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Marie Sullivan Markham

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09/24/2019

Beautiful Picture to be cherished! Based on this table, being born in 1849, and having survived until her 20th birthday, her life expectancy would have been 58.4 years. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2885717/.

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Louie Lou

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09/24/2019

Great photograph

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Ron Pat Crick

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09/25/2019

I've been interested in Genealogy and Ancestry research for years now. I know from my research that many of my ancestors died well before their sixties and many children died in childhood. I just turned 75. My dad died at 62. My g'mother's sister's family of five died at ages: 58, 47, 15, 21, and 50. Not one reached 60.

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