Sepia Saturday - The Gang of Seven

This week's Sepia Saturday suggestion:

Well I had to think about this one.

Is that guy on the right end wearing jodhpurs? I could go with that. I have lots of pictures of people in jodhpurs. But, I am not sure those are jodhpurs that fella is wearing. They might be gauchos or hiking pants or some other fashion garment beyond my scope..

Well, how about old photographs of people standing around in the street? I have a few of those. But, frankly, they're not very interesting.

Okay, how about this: I have a few rather interesting photographs of seven people; Just seven people posing for the snap.

A Gang of Seven.

No not that money grubbing bunch of politicians a couple decades ago, just seven nice people.

Okay, for example this snap has seven people in it. This one even has the same mix; Four women and three men.

Here's another: three guys, four gals.

And another!

Okay here's the gang all out on "Strawberrie Peek" for a day of posing!

Hm. Come to think of it, it appears to be three guys and four girls again...

Three guys, four girls

Dad, two sons, four daughters

Three guys, four dolls...

Four girls, three guys... are we sensing a pattern here?

Did ya count them? Three guys, four girls.

Well, aside from the family groups, when you think about it, it's not so unusual. When there are four couples out for a day in the sun, one of them has to run the camera...

The rest of the examples are just co-incidence.

So let's look at some other groups of seven.

That guy's not paying attention.

Viola and the judges. Viola likes long walks on the beach and wishes for world peace.

And this seven are all wearing jodhpurs!
(Yes, I know, This one was on the "Camera" page too.)

This one doesn't really count. There are three more people in the background...

As much as 17.5 percent of women under 40 do not care much about biplanes.

Waiting room?

Pretty Maids all in a row.

Actually, this one is three guys and four gals again. Take a look at it in a LARGER SIZE.

Ooo. If looks could kill...

Yes, look again. There are seven in the picture.

Saved my favorite for the last again.

The boys didn’t quite grasp the concept of having their photograph taken. Besides, Aunt Marge had tripped and rolled down the hill. Now they knew the answer. It was neither bloomers nor pantaloons. It was plus-fours!

This week's Sepia Saturday suggestion:

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Or maybe you'd prefer just a list of all (well, most) of the categories and subjects and album pages in LOST GALLERY! Well, here it is!

A to C

Advance to the Rear The Rear View
Aircraft
Aircraft – Biplanes
Aircraft – Connie, the Lockheed Constellation
Aliens and Mystery – Area Fifty-One and a Half
Animals – Gone to the Chickens
Animals – The Pets by themselves
Animals – Posing on a Pony
Area Fifty-One and a Half – Don’t Look Now
Automobiles – Car Bumpers
Automobiles – Car Running Boards
Baby Buggy
Beach – Itinerant Beach Photographer (page 01)
Beach – Itinerant Beach Photographer (page 02)
Beach – The Old Days
Beach – The Slide Show
Beach – The Girlfriend
Biplane
Bows
Boys in Dresses
Bridges
Bumpers – Car Bumpers
Cabinet Cards
Camera – Photographs containing a camera
Carte-de-Viste
C'est la Guerre – Photographs about the wars
Chain Chain Chain – People doing the same things
Chair, Fringed
Chair, One Armed
Cheesecake
Chickens - Gone to the Chickens
Children – Boys in Dresses
Children – A Child on the Front Steps
Children - Girls and their Dolls
Children – Kid in a Tub
Children – Mobile Toys
Children - On Running Boards
Children – Slide Show
Children – Trios - In groups of Three
Christmas – in found photographs
Cities – Unknown Street Scenes
Class Pictures – School Days!
Clothing – Bows
Clothing – Costumes
Clothing – Cowboy Outfits
Clothing – Boys in Dresses
Clothing – Furs – The Dead Animal Society
Clothing – Grass Skirts
Clothing – Hats
Clothing – Jodhpurs
Clothing – Saddle Shoes
Clothing – Sailor Tailored Fashion
Clothing – Swimwear – At the Beach
Clothing – Uniforms – Girl & her Guy in Uniform
Clothing – Uniforms - Our Man at the Front
Connie, the Lockheed Constellation
Costumes
Couples – A Girl and her Guy in Uniform
Fake Fight

C to P

Fringed Chair
Furniture and Props – One Armed Chair
Furniture and Props – Props and Backdrops
Furniture and Props – The Fringed Chair
Furniture and Props – Wicker
Girl in a Boat
Girlfriend and the Car
Girlfriend at the beach
Goat Cart
Gone to the Chickens – Snaps including a chicken
Grass Skirt Gallery
Groups – Chain Chain Chain – People lined up
Groups – Class Pictures
Hats – Where everyone is wearing a hat
Hats – Really Big hats
Homes – We Call it Home
House – Our House
Itinerant Street Photographer
Itinerant Child Photographer With PONY!
Jodhpurs
Laundry – People and Clothes Lines
Lurker
Music – Trombones
Music Makers
Novelty Photo Booth – Collection
Novelty Photo Booth – Examination
The Office Typewriters and business
On a Bumper
On a Car
On a Rock
On a Running Board
One-Armed Chair
Parade – Parties, Parades and Picnics
Parties – Parties, Parades and Picnics
People Stacks
Personal Pinups – the best girl. (Page One)
Personal Pinups – the best girl. (Page Two)
Personal Pinups – Girlfriend at the beach
Pets – The animals by themselves
Photo Mask
PhotoBombing – Pranks to ruin a photo
Photography – Photographs containing a camera
Photography – The Photo Mask
Photography – Tinted Photograph
Photography – Polaroids
Photography Errors – Lurker
Photography Errors – photographer's Shadow
Photography Errors – The Double Exposure
Photography Errors – Unauthorized Photographs
Picnics – Parties, Parades and Picnics
Places to Go - More about where than who.
Places – Our House - With people in front
Places – We Call it Home - More houses
Pony – Posing on a Pony

P to W

Poses – Advance to the Rear!
Poses - Belly Down, Heads Up! (A really odd pose.)
Poses – Cheesecake
Poses – Fake Fight
Poses – Girl in a Boat
Poses – In a Tree
Poses – Kid in a Tub
Poses – On a Bumper
Poses – On a Car
Poses – On a Pony
Poses – On a Running Board
Poses – Out Sitting on a Rock
Poses – People with Signs.
Poses – Personal Pinup
Poses – The Rear View
Poses – Sleeping people
Poses – Stacks of People People on People
Props and Backdrops
Rock – People out sitting on a rock
Running Boards - Automobiles
Running Boards with Children
Saddle Shoes
Sailor Tailored Clothing
Signs – People posing with signs.
Sleeping People
Sneaky Snaps–People not posing at all
Telephone - About telephones and operators
Things – Typewriter – A Modern Antique
Things – Telephones
Things – Watermelon in the picture
Tinted Photograph
Tintypes
Toys – Children and their Mobile Toys
Toys - Girls and their Dolls
Transportation – Aircraft
Transportation – Automobile Bumpers
Transportation – Automobile Running Boards
Transportation – Baby Buggy
Transportation – Biplanes
Transportation – Lockheed Constellation
Transportation – Wheelbarrow
Tree Thing
Trombones!
Types of Photographs – Cabinet Cards
Types of Photographs – CDV (Carte-de Viste)
Types of Photographs – Photobooth
Types of Photographs – Polaroids
Types of Photographs – Tintypes
Typewriter – A Modern Antique
Unauthorized Photographs – Sneaky snaps
Uniformed Man – Our Man at the Front
Vehicles – Biplane
Vehicles – Lockheed Constellation
Vehicles – Wheelbarrow
Washday Blues – Of Love and Laundry
Watermelon
Wheelbarrow
Wicker Chairs
Wicker Furniture
World War One

McDeavitt Photographs

Ida Mae Taggert
Bernice Myrtle McDeavitt

Ida Mae Taggert
Grace E. McDeavitt
Orrie T. McDeavitt
Faye Rebecca McDeavitt

Faye Rebecca McDeavitt
Grace E. McDeavitt

These photographs were found loose and mixed with many others in Longview, Texas. There didn't seem to be a connection at first. They were different formats, shapes, sizes.

Then I noticed a couple names repeated on the backs. On one:Ida, Grace, Orrie and Faye. On another: Faye and Grace McDeavitt. With these names I began building the Ancestry.com tree at the top of the page and discovered that Ida, Orrie and Gene were related too. On the fifth photograph the back included the name George McDeavitt and that tied all five photographs together. But the names Bertha Wimer and Jayne Gahagan seemed unconnected.

I posted all five photographs on Flickr. A short time later, Puzzlemaster discovered the connection with the other names noted on the reverse sides.

From puzzlemaster:
Google searching on the names Gahagan and McDeavitt led me to this excellent genealogy, from which all of the following is derived.

The key seems to be the large family of Isaac C. and Margaret Jane Robinson Wimer of Butler Co PA. The Wimers were connected to the McDeavitts in multiple ways across the generations, for instance, Margaret Jane Robinson Wimer's sister Ida, married a McDeavitt.

This photo and it's legend have more to do with four of Isaac and Margaret Wimer's daughters.

First of all, I believe the adult woman in the photo is Bertha Wimer, Isaac and Margaret Jane's youngest daughter, born 1904 and died in 1923.

The child is likely Jane M Gahagan, daughter of Raymond G. Gahagan and Mary Blanche Wimer, Isaac and Elizabeth's seventh child. Jane was born about 1920.

Isaac and Margaret Wimer also had two daughters who married McDeavitts:

Elmeda "Meda" Wimer (b 1894), Isaac and Margaret Jane's fifth child, married "Bert" McDeavitt,

Elizabeth Wimer (b 1888), Isaac and Margaret Jane's third child, married
Robert E McDeavitt, a son of John Henry and Eleanor McDeavitt and brother to Faye and Grace McDeavitt, pictured elsewhere (see above).

The Margaret mentioned on the back of the photo may be a daughter of Robert and Elizabeth Wimer McDeavitt who was born in 1918 and died in 1923, according to gravestone records.

George, and how the pictures ended up in Texas, continue to be a mystery.

So to recap. if I am right, the photo represents baby Jane Gahagan, aged about 2 perhaps, with her 17 or 18 year old aunt, Bertha Wimer around the year 1922, probably in West Liberty, Butler Co, PA.

Here are six additional photographs that might be connected to the above family. These have no identification on them but they were found in the same batch and seem about the same age.

All of the family lineage that I have discovered so far, is based in Pennsylvania, much of it around Butler County, Pennsylvania. The two open questions remain: Who is George McDeavitt and how is he connected to this tree?

And most mysterious: How did these photographs end up in Longview, Texas?

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