A couple of weeks ago, I discovered a picture I didn't know I had. Rather, I made a vital connection that positively identified it. The photo in question is one of my Great-Great Grandmother, Caroline Elizabeth Horner.
Caroline married Newton Kirton on July 21, 1896 in Hamilton County, Ohio. Their son, Julius Kirton, was my Great-Grandfather. However, Newton died of a stroke in 1918, and Caroline remarried. Her second husband was a man named Thomas Jefferson Butcher, something I've known for quite a while, but something I hadn't known when I first came across the following picture:
The back of the photograph says "Mrs. Butcher, Matron of Eastern Star." I'd say this picture was taken sometime in the 1920s. It was in amongst a bunch of photos of my mother's father's side of the family (the Kirton/Nelson line), but for a while I wasn't sure who this was, as I hadn't discovered the Butcher connection. Now we all have the answer.
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