CH6-Catechism-Jan1899
Photo from the collection of my dad's aunt, Clara Huggins (1875-1958), January 1899; my great-grandmother's house in the tiny hamlet of "The Hook" in North Argyle, Town of Argyle (Washington County), NY. Clara labeled this photo simply as "Catechism," I am not sure why. I suspect this might have been around New Years. All of my grandfather's sisters are here, along with 3 others. Clara is on the left, partially obscured (She worked as a long-time domestic for a well-off industrialist's family, the Coolidge's, of the nearby city of Glens Falls, NY, and was a prolific amateur artist and painter). Her sister Mary Lucina (Mazie) (1879-1961) is in the middle looking down at the bowl (she was a college student at Plattsburgh Normal School, later SUNY Plattsburgh, studying to be a teacher; she later married Grant Tefft, the publisher of the Greenwich, NY, "Greenwich Journal" and "Salem Press" newspapers); Nancy (1876-1955) is on the far right (later married farmer Archibald Skellie, and lived in her mother Lucina's house); Adah (1886-1964) is just left of Nancy (leaning in; she later married Richard McKenzie, a governmental program administrator and hospital consultant, 1889-1957). Elizabeth "Libby" Shields Gillis (1858-1935; widow of Charles Gillis) is holding the bowl and spoon. The other two women on either side of Libby Gillis are unidentified.
CH6-Catechism-Jan1899
Photo from the collection of my dad's aunt, Clara Huggins (1875-1958), January 1899; my great-grandmother's house in the tiny hamlet of "The Hook" in North Argyle, Town of Argyle (Washington County), NY. Clara labeled this photo simply as "Catechism," I am not sure why. I suspect this might have been around New Years. All of my grandfather's sisters are here, along with 3 others. Clara is on the left, partially obscured (She worked as a long-time domestic for a well-off industrialist's family, the Coolidge's, of the nearby city of Glens Falls, NY, and was a prolific amateur artist and painter). Her sister Mary Lucina (Mazie) (1879-1961) is in the middle looking down at the bowl (she was a college student at Plattsburgh Normal School, later SUNY Plattsburgh, studying to be a teacher; she later married Grant Tefft, the publisher of the Greenwich, NY, "Greenwich Journal" and "Salem Press" newspapers); Nancy (1876-1955) is on the far right (later married farmer Archibald Skellie, and lived in her mother Lucina's house); Adah (1886-1964) is just left of Nancy (leaning in; she later married Richard McKenzie, a governmental program administrator and hospital consultant, 1889-1957). Elizabeth "Libby" Shields Gillis (1858-1935; widow of Charles Gillis) is holding the bowl and spoon. The other two women on either side of Libby Gillis are unidentified.