Name/Title
Crago-Spencer Album 02, Photo 03 - William John Spencer and Elizabeth (Hedge) SpencerEntry/Object ID
2008.4.109Description
Carte-de-Visite photograph of William John Spencer [1805-1889] and his wife, Elizabeth (Hedge) Spencer [1806-1883].
This photograph appears twice in the Margaret Leah (Waddell) Baker Collection, but is identified differently each time:
(1) Image BAKM_AN002_0003 is identified as William John Spencer [1805-1889] and his wife, Elizabeth (Hedge) Spencer [1806-1883]. No photographer mark. That photograph is included in a photograph album that may have once belonged to Permelia (Spencer) Crago [1835-1910] - daughter of William John Spencer & Elizabeth Hedge, daughter-in-law of Thommas Crago & Cassandra Hughes.
(2) Image BAKM_AN003_0018 is identified as Thomas Crago [1801-1884] and his wife, Cassandra (Hughes) Crago [1800-1891]. Original, professional photograph from T. W. Rogers, Carmichaels, Pa.
Identification as William John Spencer [1805-1889] and his wife, Elizabeth (Hedge) Spencer [1806-1883], was confirmed in 2011 by Eugenia Slaydon who also owns an original of this photograph. Eugenia is a descendant of the couple through their son William "Taylor" Spencer.Collection
Margaret Leah (Waddell) Baker CollectionMade/Created
Artist
Rogers, T. W. (Studio)Place
Location
Pennsylvania / Greene County / Cumberland Township / CarmichaelsNotes
Date: 1865 caLexicon
Search Terms
Hedge family, Spencer familyOther Names and Numbers
Other Number
Other Number: BAKM_AN002_0003Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Person or Organization
Hedge, ElizabethPerson or Organization
Spencer, William John [1805-1889]Provenance
Provenance Detail
Crago-Spencer Album 02 - Margaret Leah (Waddell) Baker CollectionNotes
The Album 2 Series photographs are in a Carte-de-Visite size photograph album that may have once belonged to Permelia (Spencer) Crago [1835-1910] - wife of John N. Crago [1832-1907], daughter of William John Spencer [1805-1889] & Elizabeth Hedge [1806-1883]. The album was passed from Permelia (Spencer) Crago [1835-1910] to her son Thomas Spencer Crago [1866-1925] and his wife, Margaret Leah Hoge [1872-1966], to their daughter Leah Abigail (Crago) Waddell [1902-1962] to her daughter Margaret Leah (Waddell) Baker who owned and shared the photographs with the Greene Connections: Greene County, Pennsylvania Archives Project between 2006 and 2008.
Source Citation: Crago-Spencer Album 02, Photo 03 - William John Spencer and Elizabeth (Hedge) Spencer, item no. BAKM_AN002_0003, Margaret Leah (Waddell) Baker Collection, Greene Connections Archives Project (www.GreeneConnections.com).