Smith, Carringer, Crouch and Loucks Families in San Diego in 1913 -- (Not So) Wordless Wednesday #904

  This is a priceless (to me) image in my computer file folders:

Della (Smith) Carringer did me the favor of identifying each person in her handwriting on the edges of this photograph, and helpfully dated the photograph as taken in June 1913. When I scanned this photograph, I added the names to the digital image. The initial scanned digital image is now lost.

The persons in this photograph are:

* Back row, left: David Devier Smith (1863-1920), brother of Della (Smith) Carringer

* Back row, second from left: Austin Carringer (1853-1946), husband of Della (Smith) Carringer

* Back row, third from left: Elizabeth (Vaux) Crouch (1851-1931), sister of Abigail (Vaux) Smith, wife of Samuel Crouch, "Aunt Libbie" to Della (Smith) Carringer

* Back row, fourth from left: Amy (Ashdown) Smith (1867-1939), David Smith's second wife and mother of Maybelle Smith.

* Back row, fifth from left: Edgar Carringer (1854-1946), brother of Austin Carringer, never married.

* Back row, third from right: Hattie (Vaux) Loucks (1850-1924), wife of Matthias Loucks, first cousin of Abbie (Vaux) Smith, 

* Back row, second from right: Lyle L. Carringer (1891-1976), son of Austin and Della (Smith) Carringer, my grandfather.

* Back row, on right: Matthias "Tise" Loucks (1848-1918), husband of Hattie (Vaux) Loucks.

* Front row, seated on left: Samuel Crouch (1841-1931), husband of Elizabeth (Vaux) Crouch.

* Front row, standing, second from left, next to Sam Crouch: Maybelle C. Smith (1902-1964), daughter of David and Amy (Ashdown) Smith.

* Front row, seated, on the right, below Edgar: Della (Smith) Carringer (1862-1944), daughter of Abbie (Vaux) Smith, wife of Austin Carringer, and mother of Lyle Carringer.

The setting is probably along 30th Street between Hawthorn and Ivy Streets in San Diego - the Carringer house was on the northeast corner of 30th and Hawthorn.

If anybody reading this has any of the Crouch family, Loucks family, or David Smith in their ancestry, I would love to hear from you!

I enhanced and colorized a sepia-colored photgraph with the Google Gemini 3 and MyHeritage photo tools. 

This photograph is a part of my family history.  Della's identifications really helped. 

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