Lisa Madsen

A photo of George Benning, age 16, holding up his girlfriend. We don't know who she is. :(

A photo of George Roberts, slave to freeman privateer. In the fall of 1812 he served onboard Captain Richard Moon’s privateer 'Sarah Ann' and was among six American seamen accused of being British subjects and taken prisoner when the Sarah Ann was captured by HMS Statira off the Bahamas on September 13, 1812. Captain Moon denied that they were British:

Eventually, Roberts and the other American seamen were released. After the war, it is unknown what trade he had as a freeman or if he continued serving on-board various merchant vessels from the port of Baltimore, Maryland. What is known is that he was allowed to participate as one of the Old Defenders’ of Baltimore of 1814 during parades commemorating the anniversary for many years.

He lived to the age of 95 (1766 -- 1861)

A photo of Minnie Lee Jones

A photo of Irene Rich with Santa Claus, December 1925

Irene Rich was an actress who performed in silent films and "talkies." She also worked in radio. Married 4 times, she had 1 child in each of her first 2 marriages. She died at the age of 96(!) in 1988.

This is my great grandmother Oliv Øvergaard, and her mother Karen Schøyen at Harpefoss, Gudbrandsdalen, Norway. The woman in the back is unknown to me.

A photo of a painting of Euphemia Jackson Braden. I wrote to Edward Braden in Watseka in the 40's to trace the family. He owned this painting and Janet Armbrust sent us this photo. He also had the brass candlestick that came from Scotland with the Bradens when they moved to Ireland (ca 1575). William married Euphemia in 1791. Euphemia lived with her daughter Mary from 1832. She died at her son Robert's at the age of 94 in 1868.

A photo of Georgia Spitzer and Olga V. Fegley. Georgia is sitting. Olga is standing.

Photo of my grgrgrandmother Mary YEAW SMITH b. 1833 RI d/o Henry YEAW & Almy KNIGHT. Her spouse was Sessions SMITH.

A photo of Elsie Louise Ferguson (1885-1961) stage and screen actress was born 19 August 1885 in New York City to parents attorney Hiram Benson Ferguson (1836-1885) and Amelia Lumann (1855-1917). Starting as a 17 year old chorus girl she progressed through a number of productions to become a leading lady and Broadway star by 1909. In 1917 with some persuasion in the form of a $5,000 a week contract, Elsie Ferguson began acting in films. Her salary at Paramount paid her an extra $1,000 per day of filming. After appearing in about 25 films she returned to the stage. She did however make one final sound film in 1930 aged 47. Her final appearance on Broadway was in 1943 at the age of 60.

She was married four times, firstly to estate agent Frederick Chamberlain Hoey (1865-1933) in 1908, they divorced in 1914. She then married banker Thomas Benedict Clarke (1877-1858) in 1916 they divorced in 1923. Thirdly she married actor and co-star Frederick George Worlock (1886-1973) in 1924, they divorced in 1930. Lastly she married British naval captain Victor Augustus Seymour Egan (1875-1956) in 1934 until his death in 1956. Elsie died 15 November 1961 in New London, Connecticut aged 76.

additional information:

Elsie's father died 7 months before she was born. Her mother raised their two children on her own. Elsie did not have the wealthy upbringing that is sometimes claimed. She was one of the original "Florodora Girls" and friends with fellow chorus girl, Evelyn Nesbit (1884-1967). During her film career she was dubbed "The Aristocrat of the Silent Screen". Due to the ravages of time almost all of her films have now been lost.

A photo of Rita Hayworth campaigning for the recycling of scrap metal in World War Two.

A large part of the home front war effort in World War Two was saving scrap metal that could be recycled into weapons for the war (also used for ships and aircraft). The caption on this photo from the National Archives says that Rita Hayworth "sacrificed her bumpers for the duration" (of the war). Rita Hayworth was a big movie star at the time and she also helped sell war bonds - her two younger brothers were both in the War. Most of Hollywood was involved in the war effort, either through promoting home front campaigns such as Victory Gardens, buying war bonds, rationing, or collecting scrap metal, or by service in the War overseas.

Margarita Carmen Cansino was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1918. She changed her name to Rita Hayworth for the stage and eventually was named one of the top 25 female motion picture stars of all time. Married and divorced 5 times (once to Orson Wells), her life was plagued with alcoholism. Later in life, she was diagnosed with Early Onset Alzheimer's and died at the age of 68 in 1987.

A photo of William Henry Bishop, my Great, Great, Great Grandfather
People in photo include: William Henry Bishop

Roy Lewis Matthews (name on Photo), Photograph taken at Wheeler Studio in Xenia, Ohio USA. This photo was among some others in a box from a local antique store in Blanchester, Clinton, Ohio, USA. Other surnames in box include: Davis, Nave, Carter, Roberts, Matthews, Jodry, Young, Lewis, Pulliam, Steele, Hauke, Oatley, Toy, Beltz.

A photo of Dorothy Schofield Dickson (1893-1995) dancer, singer, stage and screen actress was born in Kansas City, Missouri on 26 July 1893. Her parents were Chicago journalist, William Bradford Dickson (1860-) and Clara M Barrett (1863-1946), both became members of the Christian Science movement.

In 1914 Dorothy Dickson dropped out of Madame Young's Chicago finishing school to form a dancing and marital partnership with Carl Constantine Hyson Jr (1887-1966). They performed throughout the US, before Dorothy joined the Ziegfeld Follies in 1917. The couple divorced in 1936. They had one daughter, actress Dorothy Wardell Hyson (1914-1996).

Coming to Britain first in 1921 Dorothy Dickson found great success with her version of the Jerome Kern song, "Look For The Silver Lining" in the 1921 production of "Sally". She had a 73 year friendship with Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon (the Queen Mother) from 1922 until her death in London, 26 September 1995 aged 102.

These three angels were sadly murdered at Auschwitz Death Camp in 1944 at age 4, 7 & 2 years.

A photo of Lucy Weston as 'Columbia' for 'The Follies of 1908' at the New York roof garden theatre 'Jardin de Paris'... photographer, Otto Sarony.

Lucy Weston (1888-) stage actress and singer born in London, England. As a child performer she appeared in the British Music Halls before emigrating on the Lusitania to America in 1908 where she toured widely with various theatre companies including a number of appearances on Broadway with early productions of the Ziegfeld Follies.

Laly was only 5 when he was sadly murdered in a gas chamber at Auschwitz-Birenkau in 1944.

A photo of Edith Wynne Matthison (1871-1955) actress and suffragette was born in Birmingham, Warwickshire, England 1875. Her parents were Henry Matthison and Catherine Wynne. She married playwright Charles Rann Kennedy in 1897. Died following a stroke in Los Angeles, California 1955.

A photo of Garland Franklin Clifton - U.S. Solider In A Native Grass Skirt - Milne Bay Nov 1942 In A Native Grass Skirt

...A James A Fazzi Sr Picture

A photo of Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Dietrich was a German pastor who was part of the German resistance and a conspiracy plot to get rid of Hitler and the Nazi regime. He was arrested for smuggling 7 Jews from Germany to Switzerland. When the July 20th plot to kill Hitler failed (in which he took part), he was sent to Buchenwald concentration camp in February 1945, then he was transported to Flossenburg concentration camp, then sadly executed by hanging on April 9, 1945.

He said "the ultimate question for a responsible man to ask is not how he is to extricate himself heroically from the affair, but how the coming generation shall continue to live."