Other People's Ancestors : Eliza Frances Fox

Eliza Frances Fox

[This is the first in what I hope are a series of posts about Other People’s Ancestors (OPA). My aim here is to have a little fun with the research process and, hopefully, to find the descendants of my subjects so I can return these photos to them.]

My first story is one of success and, in a way, failure. I had hoped to find a descendant of the girl in this photo, and there I succeeded. The failure, though I don’t claim it as my own, is in returning the photo to the family.

You see, the person who I contacted has no interest in the photo. They confirmed that it was, indeed, their ancestor, and offered some additional information about the family. But this person is elderly, and claims almost no memory of the lady in the photo, and as such, it held no meaning for them, and they had no interest in it.

This made me a little sad because I’d come to like Eliza Frances Fox, and had hoped to send her home to someone who cared about her at least as much as I do. Still, she had siblings and some of them surely had children. So perhaps there is a great-great-niece or nephew out there who might be happy to find her. I’m recording what I found here on the chance that someone might be looking for her.

If you’d like to learn more about Miss Eliza Frances Fox, read on.