Divided back, Real Photo Postcard, unused with writing. AZO stamp box. Date of photo: October 12, 1910.
Price: $15.00
“Oct. 12 – 1910. The fourth generation. Grand ma Bonham age 78, Grand ma Barnhart age 59, May Thomas age 25, Bernice Thomas age 18 mo.”
Real Photo Postcard showing four generations of Bonham, Barnhart and Thomas women. How nice that they are identified, and with their ages listed, too. Also lucky that someone had written what they thought to be the location of Kellogg, Idaho (which I think we can assume to be correct.) In checking the census records, we find on the Federal Census, taken 1910 in Kellogg, Idaho, Bernice Thomas, the adorable little girl here (notice that she is wearing a ring – how cute), born Idaho 1909, with her mother May (standing) born Missouri 1886, and father Richard Thomas, born Wales 1880 of Welsh parents. Richard Thomas is listed as proprietor of a barber shop.
May Barnhart married Richard Thomas. The marriage record shows April 25, 1906, Shoshone, Idaho (referring to either city or county of Shoshone) and May’s full name is Anna Mae Barnhart. Is there a 1900 census showing Anna Mae and family? Ah-ha, yes. Anna Mae is one of five children on the 1900 taken in Kellogg: This census shows David H. Barnhart, born 1847 Indiana, occupation carpenter; Eliza J., born 1850 Ohio; Henry C., born 1868 Kansas; Andrew L., born 1870 Kansas; Dee, born 1883 Missouri; Anna M., born 1885 Missouri; Josiah H., born 1889 Missouri; Sarah A. Bonham, widowed mother-in-law to head of household David, born 1832 Ohio; and border Randolph Scofield, born 1865 New Zealand of New Zealand parents. (I just finding this interesting, as New Zealand doesn’t come up too often in U.S. census records.)
So, now we’ve got three out of four of these beautiful ladies identified….We then find census records showing Sarah A. married to Hamilton Bonham, and a marriage record showing Sarah Ann Patterson, married 1849 in Ohio to Hamilton H. Bonham. Sarah and Hamilton had a large family, but a full listing would require much research, so won’t be pursued here. A very touching obituary and beautiful photo can be found on the Find A Grave website for Sarah Ann (Patterson) Bonham, along with a link for husband Hamilton Bonham and a wonderful photo for him.
Just to recap, in this postcard photo we have: Sarah Ann (Patterson) Bonham (on the left) born Ohio, 1832; Sarah’s daughter Elizabeth Jane (Bonham) Barnhart (holding Bernice) born Ohio about 1850; Liza Jane’s daughter Anna Mae (Barnhart) Thomas (standing) born about 1885 Missouri; and Anna Mae’s daughter Bernice Thomas, born Idaho, about 1909.
Sources: Year: 1910; Census Place: Kellogg, Shoshone, Idaho; Roll: T624_227; Page: 3B; Enumeration District: 0253; FHL microfilm: 1374240. (Ancestry.com)
Upper Snake River Family History Center and Ricks College; Rexburg, Idaho; Idaho Marriages, 1842-1996. (Ancestry.com)
Year: 1900; Census Place: Kellogg, Shoshone, Idaho; Roll: 234; Page: 10B; Enumeration District: 0101; FHL microfilm: 1240234. (Ancestry.com)
Source number: 565.000; Source type: Electronic Database; Number of Pages: 1; Submitter Code: DHL. Yates Publishing. U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900 (Ancestry.com)
Year: 1880; Census Place: Cass, Wapello, Iowa; Roll: 368; Family History Film: 1254368; Page: 256D; Enumeration District: 072; Image: 0133. (Ancestry.com)
Find A Grave memorial number 67106311. Online at http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=67106311