NOBODY called him August. Everybody called him "Jimmy." He looked like Gene Kelly and he could sing and play the piano and write songs. His first wife left him and took the children and settled in Iowa. His second wife AND their son George became Jehovah's Witnesses and they both committed suicide. The son gave his entire inheritance to the Jehovah's Witnesses and when he was financially destitute they wouldn't help him, so he killed himself too. So my uncle was really depressed.
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Photos with the names and dates lost in history. AncientFaces has been reuniting mystery and orphan photos with their families since we began in 2000.
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Portrait photographs and paintings of our loved ones and ancestors.
Before photos we had paintings of family members - most usually these were reserved for the well off. The era of modern photography began with the daguerreotype, in 1839. Since the advent of photogr...