This is a distant relative, John Franklin Petty (1856-?) and his wife Adeline Woody (1859-1955). I think one look at them and you know they lived off the land. John has muscles in that neck from a lot of lifting and straining.
After the married they moved to Wyoming and had ten children.
In the book "PROGRESSIVE MEN OF WYOMING": They moved to Sand Creek, Laromie County, Wyoming in 1887. Later owning a farm on the Wheatland Flats.
Do you have any Mormon connections out that way? I have some distant relatives out west but don’t know them- I only know of them. I think there are some Mormon folks out in Utah I am kin to. At any rate, I am sure you well know they are big on genealogy in the church.
ReplyDeleteThe really old pix you are picking up are phenomenal. How long have you been doing genealogy?
Steve,
ReplyDeleteI have two LDS connections, blood relative speaking.
My Killina family one family strolled out to Utah, I think it was, or it may be been Arizonal.
And my mother's family, the Petty's have one branch that live in Salt Lake City.
I have been doing genealogy since 1975 when my oldest son was born, and have been picking up pictures since the. Of coure, Anna's side came from her mother's collection, which I scanned just about everything she has, but not all - yet.
Suzanne,
ReplyDeleteHe did. He keeps raving about it.
I know little about my Father, but I do know where he was born, Wheatland Whyoming......
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