Elizabeth (Boyd) Meek - wife of John Meek

Photograph

Greene Connections

Name/Title

Entry/Object ID

2018.5.12

Description

Elizabeth (Boyd) Meek - wife of John Meek. This particular photograph is most likely an 1870s-era reproduction of an earlier 1850s-1860s era photograph. A notation beside the photographer stamp says, "Enlarged copy." Families often took old images to photographers in order to have multiple reproductions or enlargements created that could be shared with family members. This reproduction is from Rogers Brothers, Photographers, Waynesburg, Pa.

Photograph Details

Subject Person or Organization

Boyd, Elizabeth [1800-1869]

Collection

Sellers Burdette and Bettie (Blake) Carpenter Collection

Made/Created

Studio

Rogers Studio

Date made

circa 1860 - circa 1870

Place

Location

Pennsylvania / Greene County / Waynesburg

Lexicon

Search Terms

Meek family, Boyd family

Other Names and Numbers

Other Number

CARP-AN006-0002

Provenance

Provenance Detail

Meek Series - Sellers Burdette and Bettie (Blake) Carpenter Collection

Notes/Remarks

The Sellers Burdette and Bettie (Blake) Carpenter Collection was in large part passed from Capt. John Scott [1815-1894] and his wife, Charlotte (Mason) Scott [1817-1901], to their daughter Elizabeth Jane (Scott) Carpenter [1849-1931] and her husband, Asa Sellers Carpenter [1853-1926], to their son John Leslie Carpenter and his wife, Velma (Meek) Carpenter, to their son Sellers Burdette Carpenter and his wife, Bettie (Blake) Carpenter, whose heirs shared the collection with the Greene Connections: Greene County, Pennsylvania Archives Project in 2013.

Notes

Source Citation: Elizabeth (Boyd) Meek - wife of John Meek, item no. CARP-AN006-0002, Sellers Burdette and Bettie (Blake) Carpenter Collection, shared by Heirs of Sellers Burdette and Bettie (Blake) Carpenter, Greene Connections Archives Project (www.GreeneConnections.com).