Histories and Mysteries: Family Stories and Genealogy : Decoration Day, 1920

Tuesday, June 13, 2017

Decoration Day, 1920

I was recently contacted by a Clifton relative, and so thought I'd post this batch of photos taken at the Clifton farm near Jamestown, Boone Co., Indiana. Some of them have been posted in various places on this blog before, but I don't think I've posted them all.

For reference:

My grandparents, Georgia Licher and James Perry were married in November 1920, so these were taken while they were courting.

John Marion Clifton was born in the fall (probably October) 1919. He was the son of Marion Clifton and Alice (Rodgers) Clifton.

Herschel Clifton was born in 1907. He was the son of Marion Clifton and Marion's first wife, Rosa Canada.

Marion Clifton ("Doc") was the second husband of Alice Myrtle Rodgers. Her children by her first marriage to James Madison Perry were James Mortimer Perry (my grandfather) and Venus Perry.

Nell Pomeroy was a friend of my grandmother, Georgia Licher. She may be the Ellen Cecelia "Nelle" Slane (born 1900) that lived in Delaware Co., Indiana and married Byron Pomeroy (in 1922). That couple lived on S. Hackley Street in Muncie, Indiana, so would have been in the same general neighborhood as where my grandparents lived after they married. I am tending toward thinking this is the correct woman. She died in 1964 and is buried in Beech Grove Cemetery in Muncie. If she is indeed, Nell Slane, then she was not married when these photos were taken, however, Nell Pomeroy is how she was identified to me by my mother, so I have used that surname.