I am hoping someone can identify this man. He maybeJoseph dela Baume who owned a plantation in Northern La or he could be Joseph Preston.This picture is from the 1800s I think.
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i am looking for Robert Elmer and family. Robert was born in W.Virginia in 1852. He married Emma C. Gude and they had 9 children with 5 chldren surviving. Modena,Ernie, Wilie Mae, Elmer and Jesse, They show up on the 1910 census but not before that. Robert owned either a confection shop or liquor store in Thurber,Tx.