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 We
received this wonderful group photo by email from Jeffrey Butler with the
following note:
I viewed your website on the Little Colonel with great
interest. I have just finished making photo scans from a book of family
history written by my great grandmother, Ada Darle Dryden Sweet, of
Martinsville, IN. Her husband, Edward M. Sweet M.D. opened the National
Sanitarium in Martinsville in the year 1895.
http://scican3.scican.net/history2/sanitariums/martsani.htm
From my great-grandmother's book:
"These were the years of great
activity in the school life of the children. These were the years
when books of all kinds made their greatest appeal. And these were
the years
(1906 and 1907)
when the
books of the "Little Colonel" series were annually appearing to
fascinate young and old readers. The original of these thrilling tales
lived in the Pee Wee Valley, Kentucky, the home of the author and of the
family of Gen. Lawton of Philippine fame. The widow of the general and
her two young daughters, sometimes accompanied by the "Little
Colonel", were frequently guests of the Martinsville Sanitarium, where we
once spent an evening with them. The invitation was due to the kindness of Mrs. Budenz of the Reporter office, who
was attached to our children and who gave us the accompanying picture. The
Little Colonel is seated at the right. The other two are the Misses Lawton."
"The
Inevitably Flowing Years, A Genealogical and Family History"
Here is a scan of the photo from her original manuscript.
Frances Lawton is standing, Katherine Lawton is seated on the left,
and Hattie Cochran is seated on the right.
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Webmaster note:
the photograph would date from about the time of Little Colonel, Maid of
Honor and The Little Colonel's Knight
Comes Riding.
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What's New? Biography of Annie Fellows
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The Little Colonel (link to U. Penn))
The
Giant Scissors
Two Little
Knights of Kentucky
The Little Colonel's
House Party
The Little Colonel's
Holidays
The Little Colonel's Hero
The Little Colonel
at Boarding-School
The Little Colonel in
Arizona
The Little
Colonel's Christmas Vacation
The Little Colonel, Maid of
Honor
The Little Colonel's
Knight Comes Riding
Mary Ware, The Little Colonel's
Chum
Mary Ware in Texas
Mary Ware's Promised Land
Check our home page for more titles by AFJ on other sites
The People & Characters:
The Little Colonel, Papa
Jack and Mrs. Sherman, The
Old Colonel, Two Little
Knights of Kentucky,
Two Little Knights of Kentucky(2),
Uncle Sidney & Aunt
Elise, parents of the Two Little Knights of Kentucky,
Grandmother McIntyre,
Aunt Allison, The
Waltons, Rob and Anna
Moore, Betty,
Joyce Ware,
Jack Ware, Mom Beck,
Walker, Katherine Marks,
Gay Melville,
The Lees of Arizona,
Small Parts
Their Final Resting Places
The Places: In Pewee (Lloydsboro) Valley:
Map,
Map 2,
Where it all began, The Locust,
The Beeches
Edgewood,
The Little Colonel's Cottage,
The Railroad Station,
"Lloydsboro Seminary",
Clovercroft, The
Post Office, Churches,
The Haunted House at Hartwell Hollow,
Confederate Home
Rollington,
Minor Places In Old Louisville:
The Culbertson
Mansion, "Home of a Hero"
in Indiana::
The Cuckoo's Nest (Indiana), In Arizona:
Lee's Ranch,
Camelback Mountain &
Hole-in-Rock, In Texas:
San Antonio,
The Little Town of Bauer (Boerne),
Penacres,
The Barnaby Ranch,
In France:
The Gate of the Giant Scissors
Letters from Annie
Fellows Johnston and "Mrs Walton"
Scrapbook
Links
Cooking with The Little Colonel
Guest Book
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