Cox Family Album
(Section 2: Pages 10-16)
Assembled electronically by Tom McFarland in 1999
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Again assuming the theme that this is a Cox family album,
the early position of this photo in the album suggests
that this is an important person. I suggest this is the
father of the two children named Lydia Adams and Vinnie Adams,
pictured below, and if so, this is an early picture of the
Walter G. Adams who married
Marie E. Cox and raised 3 children at
206 Elmwood Place, a Sandwich house which still
stands graceful in 2000. Marie's sister
Alice Louise had taken the name "Alice L. Adams"
sometime after her divorce from John William Landis: it is possble that
Alice took the name of one of Walter's 6 brother's, but Walter's obituary does
not mention Alice. Clothing style is dated late 1870's.
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Photo #10 (Walter G. Adams ?) |
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Nothing is written on either photo; both prints made in Sandwich by Orr.
Notice the man's unusual lack of ear lobe, suggesting a relationship to A.M. Cox.
Nevertheless, the early position of these photos in the album suggests these are
important people in Alice's life; I suggest these are early pictures of
Roland R. Landis and Ella Cox. Compare with possibly
later pictures of the same people?Clothing style is
late 1870's. Roland Landis was born 1848. |
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Photo #11a (left) (Roland R. Landis ?) |
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Photo #11b (right) (Ella Cox Landis ?) |
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These are among the few photos which bear dedications. On the
back of the left photo is "Lydia Adams, 13 years";
on the back of the right photo is "Vinnie Adams", and his
age was cut off; however, assuming these photos were
taken simultaneously, and using 1880 census
data, we can infer that this boy is 10 years old, and the photos were
taken in the year 1884. The pair of photos on the facing page 13 includes
a 2nd photo of Vinnie (dedicated "Willie Adams aged 7") and
a baby picture, probably Lydia, shown below. See other pictures of these kids?
Vinnie's father's obituary identifies
this boy as "W. Vincent Adams". A younger brother Albert eventually was born.
Lydia eventually became Mrs. William S. Sterritt, and raised 3 children in Marseilles, Illinois,
dying in 1943. Both Vinnie and Albert had children. Clothing style is 1880's. |
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Photo #12a (left) (Lydia Adams) |
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Photo #12b (right) (W. Vinnie Adams) |
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photo13b (Lydia Adams)
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These are both tin types. Jeanne Landis Illian helped identify these in Feb 2000. |
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Photo #14a (left) (William Walter Landis and sister Louise) |
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Photo #14b (right) (Alice Louise Cox Landis and daughter Louise) |
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One of the two copies of this photo is hand-labeled "Alice Louise Cox",
and the other is hand-labeled "Mrs. J.W. Landis, Hinsdale, Ill". Both
prints are machine-labeled "1878, Chicago, Illinois", at which point Alice would
have been 21 years old. Thus, if this were Alice Cox, the photo must have
been reproduced here from negatives made perhaps 15 years earlier. The
photo advisor at the Wisconsin Historical Society in Madison thinks this
is unlikely, that the photo dates from the 1880's, and the clothing
advisor puts a similar date on the child's outfit. This inconsistency with the
clear writing on both pictures suggests that the dedication on the
photo names the owner rather than the girl in the picture. In this case,
the pictured girl is Alice's daughter Louise, born 1884.
Jeanne (landis) Illian, in February 2000, compared this photo with
photo above, showing Alice Cox with a similar child, who would be her daughter.
See a later picture of Louise? |
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These are among the oldest photos in the album, probably the
father and mother (or grandmother) of Emeline Cox,
Henry S. Davids, and Phoebe (Davids) Vermilye,
judging from facial features.
The man would then be Alice's maternal grandfather. The woman is wearing a hoop
skirt, dated from the 1860's, and is not a mourning dress. Her hair style
is from an earlier era, and given her apparent age, she may have been born
before 1800 ! |
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Photo #15 (left) (mother of Emeline E. Davids Cox) |
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Photo #15 (right) (father of Emeline E. Davids Cox) |
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The left photo is a tin type, appearing to be a doctor (?).
The woman's clothing is dated 1880's. They are smaller photos
adjacent on the same page. I will propose that the man is
Edmund R. Landis (uncle Ed), John William Landis' brother, and
brother-in-law to Alice Louise Cox, and the
woman is then Edmund's wife. This couple had two daughters.
See obituary |
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Photo #16 (left) (Edmund M. Landis) |
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Photo #16 (right) (Mrs. E. M. Landis) |
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