Selma identified this picture from 1912. She shows herself and Lydia labeled along with her three younger brothers. I have no idea who the older boy and girl are as well as the little girl between Elmer and Karl. I have other pictures with the children in the same clothes. I imagine it was taken when family visited them in Zanesville.
This picture looks to be from the same "photo op". I cannot read the name on written in on the girl on the right. Mark studied it for a long time and is sure it is Ro something, probably Roch.....
I cannot figure out who this might be. It is likely that the girl is the eldest child of the family visiting, followed by the boy and then by the little girl with the pig tails. I don't think they are from the Long family as none of Emma's siblings children fit into this pattern (as they either had all girls or all boys).
Do my readers have any ideas?
Here are three of the Brueggeman girls, Linda, Lydia and Selma, at a lake or swimming hole in their bathing costumes. I am sure they were fashionable at the time, but can you imagine swimming in outfits like these? My guess this is 1918 or 1919.
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| Linda and Selma |
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| Lydia and Selma |
Lydia Martha Brueggeman died on this day in 1994. She was the longest living of the Brueggeman children. She was 93 years old. She was the first one born in the 20th Century.
She was buried at Rose Hill Burial Park. Findagrave.com does not list her as interned there but often their records are incomplete.
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| Lydia and Selma |
Lydia Martha Brueggeman was born on March 17, 1901. She was born in Hillard, Ohio. Lydia was the last daughter of Ernst and Emma and was their seventh child.
Elizabeth Ann Riley (aka Liz) married Frank Marshall in 1981. She is the youngest daughter of Mark and Minnalu Riley. Liz kindly supplied the wedding picture for us.
This picture also from the wedding (Left to Right: Mark Riley, Lydia Brueggeman Darkow, Minnalu Riley and Mark Riley -brother of the Bride), stylin' in their Red Velvet.
