Alfred Myers - husband of Jane Jones Evans, son of Peter Myers & Pleasant Corbly

Photograph

Greene Connections

Name/Title

Entry/Object ID

2009.4.167

Description

Alfred Myers - husband of Jane Jones Evans, son of Peter Myers & Pleasant Corbly. This image appears to be a circa 1864-1865 reproduction of an earlier photograph such as a daguerreotype or ambrotype from the late 1850s or early 1860s. There is a 4 cent tax stamp and a 1 cent tax stamp are on the back side indicating that the photo dates to the Civil War, probably between 1 August 1864 and 1 March 1865 during the time when a tax stamp higher than 1 cent was used. Original, no photographer listed.

Collection

Cornerstone Genealogical Society Collection

Made/Created

Artist

No artist / photographer / studio listed.

Notes

Date: 1860s ca

Lexicon

Search Terms

Myers family, Tax stamp

Other Names and Numbers

Other Number

Other Number: CGSP_AN003_0047

Relationships

Related Person or Organization

Person or Organization

Myers, Alfred [1808-1864]

Provenance

Provenance Detail

Lynn Myers Crayne Series - Cornerstone Genealogical Society Collection

Notes

The Lynn Myers Crayne Series photographs were passed from Stephen Crayne [1813-1909] and his wife, Mary Bell [1816-1899], to their son David Bell Crayne [1851-1929] and his wife, Mary Jane "Jennie" Bane [1855-1944], to their son Hal Crayne Sr. [1879-1960] and his wife, Elizabeth Rush Myers [1877-1938], to their son Lynn Myers Crayne [1914-1993] who donated the photographs to the Cornerstone Genealogical Society (144 E. Greene St., PO Box 547; Waynesburg, Pennsylvania 15370). Shared with the Greene Connections: Greene County, Pennsylvania Archives Project in 2007. Source Citation: Alfred Myers - husband of Jane Jones Evans, son of Peter Myers & Pleasant Corbly, item no. CGSP_AN003_0047, Lynn Myers Crayne Series, Cornerstone Genealogical Society Collection, Greene Connections Archives Project (www.GreeneConnections.com).