This is a tintype photo that was in an album belonging to my Great-Grandmother, Mary Elizabeth (Gleaton) Glover Johnson. Mary's parents were Daniel Forest Gleaton and Rossie Ida (Thompson) Gleaton.
Below the photo was written, "Riss Hayes." It may have been short for Marissa or something similar. Hayes was most likely her married name, because she is wearing a wedding ring in this photo.
People in photo include: Riss Hayes
Tintype photos, also known as ferrotypes, are a type of early photographic process that was popular in the mid-to-late 19th century.
They were photos made on thin sheets of iron, not tin, that were coated with a dark enamel and were widely used from the 1850s through the early 1900s, especially in portrait studios, fairs, and by st...