Saturday, July 28, 2012

Hattie's Baby?

Sometimes I buy these postcards just to see what's on the back, if the seller hasn't scanned it. That's my way of playing the lottery.

Here's one that's not very exciting, as we've seen it before — Third Street in Hobart, looking east from the intersection with Main, circa 1910.

Third Street ca 1910
(Click on images to enlarge)

But the message on the back had me intrigued.

Third Street ca 1910 verso

I said to myself, "Self, I wonder if 'Hattie' is our own Hattie Schumacher Schavey."

The baby girl was born December 25, 1909. The 1910 Census, written May 5, 1910, shows William and Hattie Schavey with a baby girl, Grace, who was then four months old. So … it's possible.

I don't know who Margeret was. (The 1910 Census shows Miss Anna Schwieman, 35 years old, as a domestic servant in the household of Ferdinand and Norma Armbruster of Oak Park, Illinois.)

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