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Quiz 2 answer - It's in the book!
The "Physician's Account Book," of course! My grandfather, Daniel Edwin Stone, was a country doctor. My grandmother, Elizabeth (Hammond Downey) Stone, seemed to think that an old account book would make a great scrapbook.
So what we have here is an account book listing all of grandfather's patients in 1909, what they were treated for, what they were charged, and whether or not they paid. Only it makes for hard reading, for scattered about in it - and glued in many instances - are photographs with brief notes beside them, such as this one, written in grandmother's hand. There also are newspaper clippings, invitations, postcards, letters, and just about anything made of paper that she thought might be worth saving.
So I'll be drawing on this a lot for future quizzes.
Meanwhile, yes that is Jesse and Owings, as most of you noted. And by the way, if you haven't read the comments, I suggest you go back and check them - for this quiz and for quiz 1 - they're the most interesting part of this exercise. Jesse is two years older than Owings. He looks older than that here, but besides being bigger he is standing closer to the camera.
(I might add that I was about five when Uncle Jess visited us and somehow I connected the name "Jesse" and the state where he was living, Texas, with the outlaw Jesse James. My romantic five-year-old brain then thought there must be some kind of relationship between our family and the famous bandit. Of course there is none, except that Jesse was a common name in the Downey family, so it was a quite natural choice.)
That aside, wouldn't you like to live in a time and place where you felt safe asking your kids to stand in the middle of Main Street for a photo?
Stay tuned - next quiz will be posted Friday night - and we'll try to make this one easier on the younger generations.
Posted by Greg Stone at July 14, 2003 04:24 PMAh, but there IS a relationship to Jesse James!
Owings and Jesse Stone are double 6th cousins once removed, 8th cousins, and half 7th cousins twice removed of Jesse James (in other words, there are 4 ways to trace a relationship between them).
In fact, Margaret Simpson was also related to Jesse James in 3 different ways.
Greg: Very cool that you have that scrapbook -- I never knew it existed! And am looking forward to more items from it. Can you create a link to high quality images of the things you post for those of us who want to archive them away?
-- Owings
Posted by: Owings at July 15, 2003 12:49 AMWell that's certainly news to me - the Jesse James bit - but then, go back far enough and i guess everyone is related to everyone ;-)
In any event, I know you have done far more thorough and accurate research on this than any of us. We should discuss how best to get that information onto the Web.
Yes, I will post higher quality images. My plan is to collect them in Shutterfly where folks can either download them, or print them. They can print a single image any size they want, or print them all, or for that matter, print them in little booklets with text info. All at a price, of course, but it's a neat system.
However, images will vary in quality. Some I can scan in, but the scrapbook mentioned is both awkward and fragile - and the pictures are firmly glued in it - and therefore difficult to scan. So the pictures from it are images of the scrapbook taken with my camera.
Posted by: Greg Stone at July 15, 2003 10:06 AM