The Thomas Richmond Family in Massachusetts in About 1898 -- (Not So) Wordless Wednesday #909

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

This picture is of the Thomas Richmond (1848-1917) family taken in Clinton, Massachusetts in about 1898.  Thomas and Julia (White) Richmond are my great-grandparents.  The persons in the picture are:

*  In the back row, standing from left to right: Edwin Thomas Richmond (1883-1935), Charles Percival Richmond (1880-1910), Grace L. Richmond (1876-1963), Emily White Richmond (1879-1966) and Everett Glens Richmond (1875-1917)

*  In the front row, seated from left to right: Alma Bessie Richmond (1882-1962), Julia (White) Richmond (1848-1913), Thomas Richmond (1848-1917) and Anne Frances Richmond (1869-1939)

*  Seated in front: James Henry Richmond (1886-1913) and the family cat (name ????) lounging in front of James.

If this was taken in Clinton, Massachusetts, it was probably at the home of Walter and Annie (Richmond) Pickford. The occasion may have been the 30th wedding anniversary of Thomas and Julia (White) Richmond who were married on 20 June 1868.

All of the children living in 1898 are shown in this photograph.  The first son of Thomas and Julia Richmond was Frederic J. Richmond (1870-1875).

This photograph has hung in the hallways of the Seaver and Richmond homes forever, it seems.  Every grandchild of Thomas and Julia (White) Richmond had a framed photograph with the names on the back of the photo backing. 

The four sons shown had relatively short lifespans - 52, 30, 42 and 27 years.  I wonder if there was some genetic problem passed through the Y-chromosome in this family line, or if it was just happenstance or environmental factors.  The father, Thomas, died at age 69.

The four daughters had relatively long lives - 70, 87, 87 and 80 years.

My grandmother is Alma Bessie Richmond (1882-1962), who married Frederick Walton Seaver (1876-1942) in 1900.

I enhanced and colorized a black-and-white photograph with the MyHeritage photo tools. 

I also used the sepia colored photograph to do a LiveMemory video on MyHeritage. Here it is (click on it to play):

This photograph is a part of my family history.  

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