LaHarpe, Hancock County, Illinois Mystery Photograph 1800s
2010
During our search for ancestral faces, we received a copy of this photograph which was taken in the 1800s. We hoped it was a photograph of ancestors Jerome and Mary Watrous from Terre Haute in Henderson County, Illinois. However, we have not been able to identify those in the photograph. Having never seen the face of Mary June Reynolds Watrous, we have nothing to help us with identification of her face except the face of her daughter Sarah Rebecca in old age. The comparison is not definitive. In the case of our ancestor Jerome Timothy Watrous, the only face we have for him is very blurry and was taken when he appears to be younger than this man. The beards are quite different and there is nothing else to help us identify this man. The original is on file at the Historical Society in LaHarpe, Hancock County, Illinois.