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We make a brief excursion over to England to see Will's future wife Kathleen.
Three English siblings: Cecil, Ruth, and Kathleen Farmer. Maybe around 1893. Kathleen will become Will's 2nd wife.
More from the same photography seesion of Cecil, Ruth, and Kathleen.
And back across the Atlantic to Canton, Ohio.
Alma, the second Stokey sibling, in high school - 1893
Grandma Provines: Jane Gracey Provines (1820-1900), Mama Margaret's mother and the maternal grandmother of the Five Stokey Siblings, in front of her home in Canton, Ohio. The not-quite-straight edges of the print suggest that the photo was taken and developed by either Will or Fred. The puffed sleeves suggest that the photo was taken in the mid-1890s. Grandma was a good seamstress. I don't know if she made the dress herself, but it's easy to imagine her taking an interest in the latest fashions.
This photo is listed as "Stokey, Alma Gracey & Lily Love at Oberlinc.1897". It must be Alma on the left and Lily on the right, though Alma in her formal outfit is only vaguely recognizable to me. Alma mentions a friend named Lil several times in her early letters, and I think this Lily Love must be Lil. But why was Alma at Oberlin in 1897? Visiting the college that she hoped someday to attend?
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