Abbie Wood Bullock

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Image courtesy of the Hobart Historical Society.

This photo on display at the museum is captioned: "Mrs. Sim Bullock." According to the census records, Abbie W. Wood was born in 1855. In this photo, I'm judging her to be about 55 years old, so I estimate the date of this photo at around 1910. Per the Indiana Marriage Records, she married Simeon Bullock on January 28, 1875. (Simeon was Gilbert's brother.) The 1900 Census states that she had three children, all of whom were still living then, but I know of only two daughters, Ida and Jessie. The third might have been named Carrie (based on handwritten notes on another photo that I'll get to later).

Doesn't she give an impression of kindliness in this photo? — something about her half-smile, and her eyes, and then that rose in her hair.

Below is a slightly earlier photo of her. It's undated. While I don't know whether the "1888" printed on the card is the year the card itself was printed or the year the M.M. Mudge photography studio was founded, that is probably roughly the era when the photo was taken, judging by Abbie's apparent age here.


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Image courtesy of the Hobart

And here she is once again, this time with her daughter, Ida Morris, and grandson Wilbur. Ida Bullock married Wilbur Morris (Sr.) on August 12, 1902 (per the Indiana Marriage Collection). If I've found the right people in the 1920 Census, Wilbur Jr. was born about 1905. I'm guessing that he's about six years old in this photo, which would put it around 1911.


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Image courtesy of the Hobart Historical Society.


[Update 2/24/2011] Here's a little more information on this branch of the Bullock family, sent in by a reader:

The Find A Grave website has an entry for Abbie Wood Bullock with a photo of her grave marker in Crown Hill Cemetery in Hobart.

Also entries for Abbie's husband Simeon, her daughter Jessie, and Jessie's husband, Samuel H. Quinlan.