Believed to be Eleanor (Ingersoll) Barnes

Photograph

Greene Connections

Name/Title

Entry/Object ID

2018.6.2

Description

Carte-de-Visite photograph believed to be of Eleanor (Ingersoll) Barnes - wife of William Barnes. This CDV had been identified as Elizabeth (Barnes) Kent - wife of David Kent, daughter of William Barnes & Eleanor Ingersoll. However, further analysis of her age at the time of this image and comparison to another photograph of her, have led to the determination that she is not likely the subject of this image. Family resemblance and age-appropriateness have prompted the theory that this may instead be a photograph of her mother Eleanor (Ingersoll) Barnes. Original, professional photograph from A. Wallace, Waynesburg, PA. There is a 3 cent tax stamp 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.

Collection

Helen Mae (Jacobs) Fonner Collection

Made/Created

Studio

Wallace, Alexander (Studio)

Date made

circa 1865

Place

Location

Pennsylvania / Greene County / Waynesburg

Lexicon

Search Terms

Barnes family, Tax stamps

Other Names and Numbers

Other Number

Other Number: JACB_AN001_0002

Relationships

Related Person or Organization

Person or Organization

Ingersoll, Eleanor [1779c-1873]

Provenance

Provenance Detail

Jacobs-Kent Series - Helen Mae (Jacobs) Fonner Collection

Notes

The Jacobs-Kent Series probably began with Eleanor Ann (Kent) Jacobs [1832-1902], wife of Henry Moore Jacobs, and daughter of David Kent & Elizabeth Barnes. Eleanor's photographs were passed to her son Joseph Warren Jacobs [1868-1947] to his daughter Helen Mae (Jacobs) Fonner [1922-1999] to her daughter Anna (Fonner) Blystone who with her husband, George Blystone, owned and shared the photographs with the Greene Connections: Greene County, Pennsylvania Archives Project in 2005. Source Citation: Believed to be Eleanor (Ingersoll) Barnes, item no. JACB_AN001_0002, Helen Mae (Jacobs) Fonner Collection, shared by George and Anna (Fonner) Blystone, Greene Connections Archives Project (www.GreeneConnections.com).