Abrey Family on Porch

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Title: Abrey Family on Porch
Caption: 1915 c Abrey family, Dorothy 3 yrs, Grace 7 months, children died of cholera in same week
Identifier: AEJ_161
Alternative Identifier: 111
Description: The Abrey family posing on the porch of a brick building, probably their home. Fred wears a two piece suit with dark tie and pen in pocket. Elsie wears a polka dot blouse with a dark ankle-length skirt.
Commentary: This is taken at the same time and place as the Johns family portrait (Johns Family on Porch). Martin Johns recalls: "Mother and Dad's best friends, the Abreys, lost their two children within a few days from typhoid and my Father had to arrange their burial. The elder one would have been a few months older than I and I remember going with Dad to put flowers on their common grave when I was six or seven." However, compare caption with that of "The Abrey and Johns Families Outdoors." If Dorothy died in 1915, she wouldn't be alive to be photographed in 1917. Perhaps there was another Abrey child that died.
Date Created: 1915
Location: Chengdu, Sichuan
Geonames: https://www.geonames.org/1815286/chengdu.html
Original Format: Photographic Print
Relation: Johns Family on Porch
Source: Ken Johns
Provenance: Johns Family Archives
Access Rights: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Publisher: SIUE
Record Date: 2025-05-31
Contributor: Cory Willmott; Ken Johns
Type: Still Image
References: Johns, Martin W. 1992. Bamboo Shoots and Maple Buds: Recollections of a Boyhood Spent in China. Hamilton, ON: Martin Wesley Johns Publishing.

Item sets: Johns Family Archives

Media: AEJ_161_111 1915 c Abrey family, Dorothy 3 yrs, Grace 7 months, children died of cholera in same week.jpg

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