Jane McKnew With Her Sons in About 1881 -- (Not So) Wordless Wednesday #923

This is a priceless (to me) image in my computer file folders from the Leland family collectio

This photograph was taken in about 1881 in San Francisco, California.

The woman in the photograph is Jane (Whittle) McKnew (1847-1921), my wife's great-grandmother. The boys in the photograph are probably Alfred Rodney McKnew (1869-1943), Henry Lee McKnew (1870-1834), and George Morgan McKnew (1879-1944).  

I have another photograph of Elijah Pickrell McKnew (1836-1912), Jane's husband and the father of their children, with his three daughters at the time in the same studio.

I estimated the date of the photograph by the estimated ages of the children in both photographs, and that daughter Belle, born in 1882 was not included. 

I requested MyHeritage to enhance and colorize this photograph (it was a sepia photograph originally). I obtained the image from the Leland/McKnew photograph collection of Linda's brother, Paul Leland in about 2010.

This event is part of my family history!!

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