This is a portrait Of H.L.Mason in around 1910. One of a pair done of him and his wife Eliza Jane Adkins About the time they were wed. I call them the Honeymoon Portraits because they look so young and lusty and proud.
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at Mason in Elliot County, Kentucky United States
Portrait photographs and paintings of our loved ones and ancestors.
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Photos of the 1900's which brought us from the industrial age to the technological age.
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World War 1, the Mexican Revolution, the Russian Revolution, the Easter Rising in Ireland . . . the sinking of the Titanic and the Lusitania. Spanish flu killed well over 20 million people world wide ...
Photos documenting holidays, special events, and celebrations.
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I am researching the Mason family Originally from Scotland, Virginia,and Elliot and Morgan Counties, Kentucky. I have traced the Conner/Josiah Goodwin family back to around 1400.