In May 2018, I blogged about a photo album that once belonged to my husband’s grandmother, Bertha Edna Smith Athya and is now in the possession of my husband and I. Bertha also left a box of photos behind, many of them from her early years. Most of the photos are the size of a baseball card or smaller. This is one of the photos from that collection. The two women in the photo below are Georgia Anna McIlwain Austin and Electra B. Smith Jack.
Georgianna, which is what I believe she went by, was born in Pennsylvania (most likely Apollo, Armstrong County) on September 28, 1868. The daughter of James Xenophon McIlwain and Emaline Hildebrand, she was Electra’s half-niece. Georgianna married Charles H. Austin on September 4, 1895 and died in Apollo on September 3, 1932.
The daughter of John Thompson Smith and Jane Gordon, Electra was born in Apollo on February 11, 1841. At age 55, she married Daniel Jack, son of Samuel Jack and Catharine Beck and a veteran of the Civil War, in Apollo on February 20, 1896. Daniel’s first wife was Electra’s sister, Eunice Alvira Smith, who died in 1890. Electra died in Washington, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania on April 22, 1932. At the time, she lived in the home of her niece Bertha (Smith) Athya. Bertha was the informant on Electra’s death certificate.
In this photo, you can see an unknown man holding a rifle, apparently just back from a day of hunting. Tied on the back of his car, is a deer. Georgianna, Electra, and a second unknown man had come outside to check out the catch of the day.
References
- E. B. Smith and Daniel Jack marriage license, Pennsylvania, U.S., Marriages, 1852–1968.
- Georgie Mcilwain and C. H. Austin marriage license, Pennsylvania, Marriages, 1852–1968.
- Mrs. Electra Jackson Certificate of Death no. 42910, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Department of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics.
- Mrs. Georganna [sic] Austin Certificate of Death no. 81576, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Department of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics.
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