To: Jeanette Ela August 2, 1905 So. Manchester, Connecticut

Question

Hi Wikitreers, 

Let’s see if we can connect the genealogy behind the vintage antique post card in my collection. 

I have in my antique vintage post card collection a post card dated August 2, 1905. Addressed to a Miss Jeanette Ela at So. Manchester, Conn. 

We need collaboration in connecting and transcribing this post card writing

1.) Who was Jeanette Ela? Is LNAB spelling Ela?

2.) Is there a 1900/1910 census for Jeanette?

3.) Who was the sender Howard?

Note: Howard sent this 115 plus year old card to Miss Jeanette Ela So. Manchester Connecticut August 2 1905 R.P.P. Will & New Haven 1011 R.P.O. cancellation stamp intact. School house Bay, Lake Pocotopaug and village on front of this multi-view card. 

Any collaboration is appreciated 

Thank you 

Answer 1

There is a Jeanette Ela (1887-1968), the daughter of Elwood and Jennie Ela, living in Manchester, Hartford County, Connecticut in 1900.

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M9Q5-S63

She has a familysearch.org profile:

https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/LDJY-NM8

Comments

Hi Roger,

I do you believe you cracked the mystery on the first round! I believe it’s our person in the card. She was born 24 March 1887 – 25 December 1968 and appears She married Charles Denison Talcott on 14 June 1906, in United States.

Interesting Howard maybe a suitor writing her and using maiden name? Or the marriage date is not exact…interesting

See also: FindAGrave

Note: the name is too unique not to be her 

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It probably works.  The date of the card was August, 1905, and she married in June, 1906.

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Might be just me but I get the sense he didn’t hear from her and she married and didn’t know…but just theorizing but a year after card sent in 1905 she married in 1906. So just speculating.

Edit: Talcott is a noteworthy name in the area especially Talcottville history

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Connecting her Chapman lineage very interesting her grandfather was civil war veteran Maro Spaulding Chapman (1839 - 1907) then her husbands lineage very historic the Talcott family lines. Wonderful to see the connections now