Wednesday, December 1, 2010

(Not So) Wordless Wednesday - Post 131: Lyle and the Morgan Girls

I'm posting family photographs from my collection on Wednesdays, but they won't be wordless Wednesday posts like others do - I simply am incapable of having a wordless post.

Here is a photograph from the Carringer family collection handed down by my mother in the 1988 to 2002 time period:


I can identify only one person in this photograph positively right now - my grandfather, Lyle Lawrence Carringer (1891-1976) in his US Marines uniform.  Based on that, I can date the photograph as 1917-8 and the setting is in front of one of the buildings on the Carringer home at 2105 30th Street in San Diego.

The back of the photo has six more names - Matie, Martha and Susie Morgan, and girls Maud, Nellie and Marian (possibly with the Morgan surname).  Matie is, I think, the lady in the white nurses uniform to Lyle's left.  If this is her, this is the only picture I have of Matie (Mary Ann) (Smith) (Chenery) Cramer (who married a Morrill after this photo was taken); Matie is the sister of Lyle's mother, Della (Smith) Carringer, and therefore Lyle's Aunt. 

I added the names to the front of this picture many years ago.  I need to find the picture in the box, rescan it and save it without the names on it.

The Morgans are a different challenge - who are they, and how are they related (if at all) to Lyle?  Or are they friends of the family, perhaps of Matie, and are on a husband hunting trip for the young ladies?

In the 1920 census, there is a household in Orange, Orange county, California that I think is three of these females (1920 US Census, population schedule, Orange township, Orange County, California, ED 72, Page 6B, Dwelling #165, Family #187, accessed on http://www.ancestry.com/, citing National Archives Microfilm Series T625, Roll 123):

*  Susie E. Morgan - head, owns home, with a mortgage, female, white, age 53, widow, born Kansas, parents born Illinois/Kentucky, a grader, works in Orange county packing house
*  Nellie J. Morgan - daughter, female, white, age 25, single, born Colorado, parents born Iowa/Kansas, a spinster, works at telephone company
*  Marian T. Morgan - daughter, female, white, age 18, single, born Colorado, parents born Iowa/Kansas, no occupation.

There are enough clues there to go back to the 1910 and earlier census records and fill out the family.  The family in 1910 was found in Salt Lake City, Utah (1910 US Census, population schedule, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, ED 109, Page 6A, Dwelling #117, Family #123), accessed on http://www.ancestry.com/, citing National Archives Microfilm Series T624, Roll 1606):

*  Nelson Morgan - head, male, white, age 49, first marriage, married 25 years, born Iowa, parents born Illinois/Iowa, a carpenter, works on house, rents home.
*  Susie E. Morgan - wife, female, white, age 44, first marriage, married 25 years, 7 children born, 6 living, born  Kansas, parents born Illinois/Kentucky, no occupation
*  Maud L. Morgan - daughter, female, white, age 24, single, born Kansas, parents born Iowa/Kansas, a teacher, works in school
*  Nellie J. Morgan - daughter, female, white, age 17, single, born Colorado, parents born Iowa/Kansas, no occupation
*  Martha N. Morgan - daughter, female, white, age 14, single, born Colorado, parents born Iowa/Kansas, no occupation
*  Marian B. Morgan - daughter, female, white, age 8, single, born Colorado, parents born Iowa/Kansas, no occupation.

There's the five females from the picture above - the approximate ages in the 1917 picture are: Susie  (age 51), Maud (age 31), Nellie (age 24), Martha (age 21), Marian (age 15).

I will try to determine if these Morgan persons are related to Lyle in a later post, and, if they are, perhaps try to find the next generation of descendants.

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