I have two copies of this image (which I think is a photograph of a framed drawing) and on the back of each, in different handwriting, is written: "Thomas Goodwin Wells, your great grandfather," which would have been written to my maternal grandfather, Lowell Townsend Copeland.
I descend from Thomas Goodwin Wells as follows:
Thomas Goodwin Wells
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Eliza May Wells
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Ethel May Greeley
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Lowell Townsend Copeland
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My mother
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Me
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My mother
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Me
How awesome, Elizabeth-- by the clothes, I would say this drawing was done in the 1840s or early 1850s. Nice looking gent. :-) Did it just get passed down to you?
ReplyDeleteHe lived 1804-1873, so your suggested timing of the drawing seems likely. I have had this image for years and am posting this in anticipation of completing a Surname Saturday post for my Wells line.
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