Post #8 - Moving On

Oh dear.  Some time has passed since our last little chat, hasn't it.  Back to work!  Your family curator has not been idle, rest assured.  First, let's clean up a few questions from the last post.  This photo

was taken June 2, 1911, the day following the wedding of Aunt Laura and Uncle Bill Haines, Aunt Laura being Charles T. DeHart's (Grandpop) older sister.  Charles would have been 8 years old at this time, but he is not in this photo.  Identification according to Christie Carson Whitehouse who shared the picture is as follows:

Top Row (L to R):  Mr. Davis (husband of Julia below), Harry A. (H.A.) DeHart, John Walter DeHart, Julia DeHart.

Middle Row (L to R):  Julia (Stryker) Davis, Clara Stryker, Clara Davis, Nora (Beacle?) [I wonder about this Nora person.  Could this be Kezia Wilkins, Aunt Rady's step-daughter and best friend of Aunt Laura? Kezia was her maid of honor, and she was Kezia Wilkins Bilms by that time, married to Charles Bilms of Asbury Park, NJ]

Bottom Row (L to R):  Rachel DeHart Wilkins, Henry/Harry A. DeHart, Jennie Stryker, Ruth DeHart Guerin, Rachel Guerin (daughter of Ruth Guerin), Ruth Wilkins (daughter of Rachel Wilkins), Mary Thompson DeHart, Aunt Anna Thompson.

Notes:  Jennie Stryker is the mother of Julia Davis and Clara Stryker.  Julia Davis is the mother of Clara Davis.  [Got all that???  You understand why I have threatened to resort to making puppets in order to sort all these people out???]

Anyway, the ladies with the hats are all North Jersey friends and family and are probably all dressed to return on the train later that day.  Aunt Ruth DeHart Guerin appears to be formally dressed in black mourning garb.  Her husband, Claude V. Guerin, had passed away seven months previous, November of 1910.  I have more about all these folks that I'll post later - maybe separate family pages for each.   I may assign us all a number like many other genealogists do to keep things straight (then I won't have to make the damn puppets).  So do we agree on the identifications?  Take a good squint when you get a minute and let me know.

So when I say I haven't been idle ancestrally speaking, I'm not lying.  I fell deeply into the history of Dutch immigration in the 1600's (and DeHarts were really three generation-Hollanders, at least, and actually not so much the persecuted French Huguenots as previously believed).  Such cool stuff.  I intend to share all this (in detail!), but will also intersperse photos of more modern times as well for those who are not so history-nerdy as me. --cds