Linwood Dyer Collection – Part 026
Isabel Dyer Skillin Album
Photo Friday
By Don Taylor
The album includes a clipping from the Portland Evening Express, dated 16 Jun 1949. The clipping indicates that the South Portland Class of 1899 had its 50th reunion.
Attendees include Miss Flores Smart. Kingston, R. I., & Mrs. Effie Dyer Alexander, Cape Elizabeth. This clipping provided the married surnames for two of the women in these photos.
Effie Dyer (later Alexander), c. 1899.
Handwritten on a slip of paper with the photo is “Effie Dyer.”
What I learned while researching this photo:
- My search of Ancestry family trees suggested this is Effie Blanchard Dyer. She was born on 10 Sep 1880 in Cape Elizabeth to Sumner and Laura (Bean) Dyer. She married Samuel Alexander in Cape Elizabeth on 11 Jun 1907 and died in Portland on 14 Feb 1961.
I added this photo of Effie to her FamilySearch profile, L8W7-LLP, and my Linwood Dyer Collection family tree at Ancestry.
Estella (Elsie) Hannaford, c. 1899.
Handwritten on a slip of paper with the photo is “Estella Hannaford.”
What I learned while researching this photo:
- My search of Ancestry failed to find an Estella, Essie, Estie, Stella, or Ellie Hannaford in either South Portland or Cape Elizabeth.
- A review of South Portland 1900 Census records found two Hannaford heads of households:
- Charles B Hannaford, whose wife was Hattie, and they had three young children.
- Charles M Hannaford, whose wife was Bessie, were both 30 years old.
- A review of Cape Elizabeth 1900 Census records found eight Hannaford heads:
- Co Hannaford, who was a 47-year-old single man.
- Lizzie Hannaford lived with her three sisters.
- Louis Hannaford lived with his wife, Emma, and three daughters, including 17-year-old Elsi.
- Jennie Hannaford lived with her six children, including 16-year-old Tena.
- FNU Hannaford and her two children, including her 24-year-old daughter, Marion.
- Albert Hannaford, his wife, and two children, including his 20-year-old daughter, Jennie.
- George Hannaford, his wife, and son.
- Philip Hannaford, his wife, Fergie, and three young children.
- Only the Louis Hannaford family is a likely candidate. Louis was 51, and his wife, Emma, was 49. His daughter, Elsie, was born on 18 Mar 1883 in Cape Elizabeth.
- Elsie’s obituary indicates she died on 15 Nov 1884 at 101. It says she graduated from South Portland High School in 1901 and was a Boston Post Cane recipient in Cape Elizabeth in 1981.
I am confident this photo of “Estella” is of Elsie about 1899.
I added this photo of Estella/Elsie to her FamilySearch profile, 9XMT-TFD, and to my Linwood Dyer Collection family tree at Ancestry.
Ethel Fullerton (later Hatch), c. 1899.
Handwritten on a slip of paper with the photo is Ethel Fullerton/
What I learned while researching this photo:
- The 1900 US Census lists Ethel M Fullerton as the 18-year-old daughter of Elihu and Christie Fullerton.
- My search of Ancestry family trees suggested this is Ethel M Fullerton. She was born on 11 Aug 1881 in Cape Elizabeth to Elihu W and Christie M (Nicholson) Fullerton. She married Frederick W Hatch on 31 Mar 1919.
I added this photo of Ethel to her FamilySearch profile, L2DB-2PV, and my Linwood Dyer Collection family tree at Ancestry.
Flores Smart, c. 1899.
Handwritten on a slip of paper with the photo is “Flores Smart.”
What I learned while researching this photo:
- My search of Ancestry family trees suggested this is Flores Isabelle Smart. She was born on 4 Jul 1991 in Cape Elizabeth, Maine, to Andrew and Harriet (Kincaid) Smart. She died in Rhode Island on 25 Dec 1976.
I added this photo of Flores to her FamilySearch profile, LV83-KFB, and to my Linwood Dyer Collection family tree at Ancestry.
Philip Hutchinson, c. 1899.
Handwritten on a slip of paper with the photo is “Philip Hutchinson.”
What I learned while researching this photo:
- My search of Ancestry family trees suggested this is Philip Hutchinson. He was born on 30 Aug 1881in Cape Elizabeth, Maine, to William and Martha (Jordan) Hutchinson. He died in 1945.
I added this photo of Philip to his FamilySearch profile, L67M-W12, and to my Linwood Dyer Collection family tree at Ancestry.
Conclusion
I would love to hear your reaction if any of these photos are of your family member. Especially if this photo is of a loved one for whom you hadn’t seen this photograph before.
Due to software limitations, the images uploaded to Ancestry and FamilySearch have a higher resolution than those here. Feel free to use these photos in your genealogical activities. Please cite “Photo Courtesy: Don Taylor Genealogy.”
