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1913 Class Photo
Top Row (Left to Right) Edwin Pickering, Effie Nagel, Mrs. Sampson, Eda Dechant, Herman Krehm
Middle Row (Left to Right) Bernice Cole, Fayette Fitch, Ealnor Buck, Artress Moon, Edith Peake, Virginia Alten, Ola Pickering
Bottom Row (Left to Right) Willard Hicks, Bernard Auckerman [Ackerman?], Laverne Pickering, Edwin Caspar, Oscar Harold
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Subject: pictorial history books
Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2006
Posted by: Re5212@aol.com (Richelle, Parma, Ohio)
``I was recently at the Crocker Park Barnes & Noble in Westlake, OH for a lecture by Elyria Health Guru Dr. Robert DiMaria. What a great speaker! After his talk I did some book store browsing and found TWO great books.
One book is a pictorial history of Cleveland entitled, Cleveland Then and Now, by John Grabowski and Diane Grabowski. This is a great addition to your family history research if you are or had family from Cleveland, Ohio. Photos go back to the Civil War days and highlight Downtown Cleveland as well as many Cleveland neighborhoods. I spent my early childhood in Cleveland and my grandparents were Cleveland residents. I have many fond memories of growing up in Cleveland ...
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| Cover of "Images of America: Avon" -- The book is also on sale at 2536 Stoney Ridge in The Country Store, which is shown on the cover when the store was May Webber's Millinery Shop. Call 934-6119 to make sure books are in stock before visiting The Country Store. |
This brings me to my second great find of the day. The little history of AVON published by Arcadia Publishing. WOW! What a treasure! -- as this is where I am researching in Lorain county. This book is also a pictorial history covering people, houses, churches, businesses, etc, and I found numerous family connections in the book.
A note on Arcadia Publishing: they have a lot of these inexpensive little history books covering many different cities and different topics. For example, there is one of the history of Fenn College (now Cleveland State University).
The cover of the Avon book is a picture of a millinery store with two ladies from about the turn of the century (1900 that is). One of the ladies is standing with her bicycle and wearing a jaunty little hat. This was the best find of the day as I learned this woman was Lizzie Taft.
Lizzie Taft was my Dad's Aunt Lizzie: Elizabeth Pickering, daughter of John Pickering and Ellen Smith. From my research I get the impression that Aunt Lizzie was a forceful, modern woman and it was really cool to see a picture of her on a BIKE.
John Pickering is my immigrant ancestor and the ancestor of the Pickerings of Pickering Hill Farms, which is represented in the book. A picture of my dad's double first cousin and former mayor of Avon, Lavern Pickering is also in the book.
Other family connections I found are pictures of : the Barrett Home, Roy & Grace Peak Cahoon, Bucks Hardware, Blackwell Barn, and the Methodist Church which my Dad's great uncle Frank Newton Smith helped to build after the first one burned down.
There were also pictures of early saw and grist mills along French Creek, and these pictures really caught my interest as some of my early Wilcox ancestors were millers and also owned land near the Steam Grist Mill on North Ridge Road, the former name of Detroit Road.
I have just ended a six year collaboration with my cousin researching my grandmother (the book is finished!) and also just ended a stint with the Tremont History Project researching that Cleveland neighborhoodâ. So I am ready to dig back into my own project which is the family histories of the PICKERING and WILCOX and related families ...''
Richelle
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