Sisters

Having been blessed with six MORE boxes of family photos, I am trying desperately to sort, digitize, and find room for even more. Today I came across this photo:

Here's an edited version with slightly better definition:

I know the woman on the left is Great-grandmother Lizzie Pinson. The woman next to her is definitely Nancy Jane (Jennie) Page. My fragrant cousin has IDed the other two as mostly likely Carrie Barksdale and Bessie Bradford. 

Obviously some kind of special event. 

The most interesting thing about this photo is that it was taken on the same day as the earlier one you'll find here:

http://alroots3.blogspot.com/2015/06/a-new-picture-of-britta-i-think.html

Same hair, same clothes, same people. 

What's striking about the photo from the 2015 post is the woman in the middle, who is either Britta Ann Green McGuire Flynn or Mary Drucilla McGuire Edins. This photo came from my grandmother's album, in which the images were arranged chronologically from about 1919 to about 1930. This photo is from the earliest part of the album, about 1919. Britta died in 1919 at age 85 and Mary Drucilla would have been about 60 or so. The woman in the middle looks closer to 60 than 85, and so I am willing to say that this person is Mary Drucilla McGuire Edins. 

Boy, Britta and Mary Dru looked a lot a like. Like twins! But then again, so does the other Britanna Green, daughter of Graphen Holt Green, who I believe is my Britta's brother.  And so it goes...                          

                                                                                                                            

New Green connections

FYI—My interest is in finding the relationships, not in causing problems for other researchers who may be upset by possible revelations. "Spoiler alert" — possible out-of-wedlock child ahead.

I just made a Green/Pilgreen connection between Shelby County, AL, folks in the mid-1800's.

Clarissa Avery married Jonathon Pearson in 1848, Bibb County, AL. She was 25; he was 49. She had a son Levi from a previous relationship. Apparently he was born out of wedlock because her parents were Jessi Thomas Avery and Miriam Crumpton, daughter of Luke Crumpton. Natural children took the name of their mothers.

Levi married Frances B. Pilgreen in 1866 in Shelby County. Frances was the daughter of Elias Pilgreen, son of Book Pilgreen. She's a Green/Pilgreen.

Clarissa and Jonathon's son Shadrick Pearson married Nancy Jane McKinney, daughter of Mary Ann Green and John P. McKinney on 14 November 1872 in Bibb County.

Through DNA I can prove that Mary Ann Green McKinney was somehow related to Book Pilgreen—probably through Jeremiah Pilgreen of Shelby County in the 1830S and 40s. Thus, Nancy Jane McKinney Pearson and Frances Pilgreen Avery are related. Probably cousins.

Why is this important? I dunno yet. Stay tuned.