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The Day I Bade Her Goodbye

The Day I Bade Her Goodbye
Written on the back:

"Taken July 21, 1890.
The day I bade her good-bye."

Myrtle E(mily). Newall & Mary Elmer

[This is a small 2 by 2 inch photograph on heavy stock.]

Smiley Derleth, Sylvie Coeffic, , and 2 other people have particularly liked this photo


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 Frode
Frode club
Great vintage photo.
10 years ago.
Deborah Lundbech club has replied to Frode club
Thank you!
10 years ago.
 Sylvie Coeffic
Sylvie Coeffic
Yes full of sadness... one of the sister left the town because of her wedding... to find a job? :-)
10 years ago.
 Deborah Lundbech
Deborah Lundbech club
Thanks for your visit, Sylvie.
It does looks tragically sad to me - maybe in thinking about how, back then, long distances often meant permanent separations.
(They are not sisters - their names are different.)
I think there is another photo of one of them in the album - I'll have to check.
10 years ago.
 Deborah Lundbech
Deborah Lundbech club
Family Search tells me that Myrtle Emily Newall was born in Shoreham, Vt in 1867. (This is in an album from a nearby town.)
She was married in Hennipin, Minnesota in 1894 to Donald D. Blue.
In 1895 she was living in Iowa with her husband and mother in law.
She died in 1954 but have not yet found where.
3 years ago.
 Deborah Lundbech
Deborah Lundbech club
Found it. She is buried in Wright, Iowa.
So, Myrtle left Vermont for Minnesota but didn't marry for another four years,
Mary Elmer was born in 1868 and in nearby Addison, Vermont, and died in nearby Middlebury Vermont in 1937.
She was married in 1903 in the town of Addison to Eban Ryder.
These two women most likely never saw each other again.
3 years ago.

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