Tin type portrait of James McDaniel as a young boy about age 5. Probably taken in the 1860's in Tennessee.
Help identify this boy. This tin type was found in a box of Wilson family pictures. He is probably related to Margaret Adeline "Addie" Hooper (1857-1949). He might be a brother Nelson T. Hooper (1859-1881) or Lee Vance Hooper (1861-1890) or he might be her husband James C. Wilson (b.1852).
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