Monday, September 23, 2013

Matrilineal Monday: Elizabeth Banevich Guokas and son Charles, ABT 1904

If my maternal grandfather, Charles Peter Guokas Jr., (1903-1967) was still alive, he would be 110 today.

At left is a photo of him, probably from 1904, with his mother, Elizabeth (Elžbieta Benevičiūtė) Banevich Guokas (1875-1929).

The photograph was taken by Anderson & Co., who had a studio at the time at 403 and 1/2 Main Street in Houston. You can't see it at the bottom of the scan of the photograph, but I cropped that area out and adjusted the color and contrast to make it visible.

Consulting Catching Shadows: A Directory of 19th-Century Texas Photographers by David Haynes (page 3), Samuel Anderson is listed as having a studio at this address in Houston city directories from 1892 through 1901.  The 1902-03 and 1903-04 Houston city directory in the Houston Area Digital Archives also has a listing for him at this address).

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2 comments:

  1. My Aunt Nancy Brown Windler died Nov 2012 at 106 yrs old in Columbus Ohio. She shares this birthdate. She was lucid to the end and a true southern belle.

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  2. My Aunt Nancy Brown Windler died Nov 2012 at 106 yrs old in Columbus Ohio. She shares this birthdate. She was lucid to the end and a true southern belle.

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