A new mystery....

I recently had the opportunity to visit with my great-uncle Dave Walker and his wife Wilma. Dave is my grandmother's younger brother, and has the same first and middle name as I do (Joshua David). I asked them if they had any old photos of the Walker family, but at the time they didn't think they had any. Then several days later Aunt Wilma emailed me an old photo of a woman. She told me that it was given to Dave by one of his cousins, and he told him it was of his "Grandmother Walker."

I had never seen this photo before, so I was pretty excited to see it, but when I started to connect the dots, something didn't seem right. "Grandmother Walker," would have been Laura Walker, wife of James Morgan Walker. I have photos of Laura, and this woman does not look like her at all. I asked Aunt Wilma about this, and she wondered if it could possibly be Uncle Dave's Great-Grandmother Walker.... which means it would be Martha Suttle Walker, wife of Oliver Perry Walker.

I'm no expert when it comes to the type of clothing people wore during certain time periods, but this doesn't look like something somebody wore around 1920, which is when Laura Walker (my 2nd-great-grandmother) passed on. Furthermore, Laura was in her mid-fifties when she died. The woman in this picture is much older, and it is well established that Martha Suttle Walker was around 72 when she died.  I would love to be able to find out, with more certainty, that this is actually my 3rd-great-grandmother, Martha Suttle Walker. 

Well I was afraid this would happen.....

Just a few months after starting a blog I care about, and I've already grown negligent.  Part of that I blame on a sharp decrease in activity in the genealogy hunt....  I'm hoping the new year will bring with it new discoveries and information.

One of my aunt's recently informed me that she had discovered a collection of old photos at my grandmother's house so I will be very excited to see those the next time I go back home to visit my folks.  I had hoped over the Christmas holiday that I would be able to visit some libraries in GA and AL to look up some back-history on my wife's family but the whole family ended up getting sick! So that didn't happen.