10-035.jpg
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Number: 5
Date: AUG53
Film: Kodachrome Red-on-grey
C46
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Annual picnic at Aunt Elsie and Uncle Ernest Spencer's house.
Date on slide likely incorrect. Number and content match previous and next slide -- Kathleen's blue shirt, man in white shirt and pants, woman in purple checked dress, picnic basket.
Kathleen Ellis wote 2/19/10:
Aunt Elsie was Zita’s best friend.
Steve Ellis found this in the Brookfield Historical Society Web site, 2/20/10:
Mrs. Margaret (Chew) Waddington and her daughters Mary and Elsie came to Brookfield in November, 1913, as noted previously. Mary married John Harford and set up housekeeping on the Waddington place. Elsie stayed with John and Mary a short time, and then went to work for Dr. Ellis in the telephone office in the village. From there she went to New Brunswick to work in the seed laboratory. Elsie was married in 1934 at Brookfield to Dr. Ernest Spencer, whom she had met at Rutgers University, while he was working for Rockefeller Institute.
After John and Mary Harford moved to the village, Ernest and Elsie acquired the place on Stone Road, which they continued to own until they built their present residence in Brookfield Center.
Handwritten date on slide likely incorrect. Number and content matches previous and next slide.
10-035.jpg
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Number: 5
Date: AUG53
Film: Kodachrome Red-on-grey
C46
---
Annual picnic at Aunt Elsie and Uncle Ernest Spencer's house.
Date on slide likely incorrect. Number and content match previous and next slide -- Kathleen's blue shirt, man in white shirt and pants, woman in purple checked dress, picnic basket.
Kathleen Ellis wote 2/19/10:
Aunt Elsie was Zita’s best friend.
Steve Ellis found this in the Brookfield Historical Society Web site, 2/20/10:
Mrs. Margaret (Chew) Waddington and her daughters Mary and Elsie came to Brookfield in November, 1913, as noted previously. Mary married John Harford and set up housekeeping on the Waddington place. Elsie stayed with John and Mary a short time, and then went to work for Dr. Ellis in the telephone office in the village. From there she went to New Brunswick to work in the seed laboratory. Elsie was married in 1934 at Brookfield to Dr. Ernest Spencer, whom she had met at Rutgers University, while he was working for Rockefeller Institute.
After John and Mary Harford moved to the village, Ernest and Elsie acquired the place on Stone Road, which they continued to own until they built their present residence in Brookfield Center.
Handwritten date on slide likely incorrect. Number and content matches previous and next slide.