Corrie Dandridge Sampson Graham with her Children

Name/Title

Corrie Dandridge Sampson Graham with her Children

Entry/Object ID

2023.30.12

Description

Photographic portrait of Corrie Dandridge Sampson Graham with her two young children, Malcolm Montross Graham, Jr. (left) and Sarah Aylett Graham (right). It is in an oval shape, adhered to a black matte. Inscribed in blue pen on the back: Corrie Sampson Graham (daughter of Sarah Fontaine Sampson) & her 2 children

Made/Created

Studio

Bronner's Studio

Date made

1900 - 1904

Notes

Original

Provenance

Notes

Cornelia (Corrie) Dandridge Sampson, a great-great-granddaughter of Patrick Henry, was born on April 1, 1874, in Dallas, Texas. Her parents, Henry Sampson (1847-1903) and Sarah Spotswood Fontaine (1848-1935), moved the family a year later and at age six, Corrie lived in Williamsburg, North Carolina. She married Malcolm Montross Graham, Sr. (1865-?), on April 4, 1894, and they had the two children in this photograph: Malcolm Montross Graham, Jr. (1898-?) and Sarah Aylett Graham (1900-1982). She died at age 29 on September 13, 1904, at St. Mary's Infirmary in Galveston, Texas. This photograph was given to PHMF on May 3, 2023, by Monique and Philip Heller. They inherited this object and the others in this accession from her stepmother, Catherine Spotswood Fontaine Lawrence (1938-2015), a third-great-granddaughter of Patrick Henry. Corrie Dandridge Sampson Graham was her first cousin once-removed and the two children were her second cousins.