IDENTIFICATION ON PHOTO: "Anna Harter, Marion Stafford's Great-Aunt, Mae Eells' sister"
PHOTO TAKEN: unknown location, circa 1930
PHOTO ACQUIRED: June 2021, Time Travelers Antiques Mall, Springfield OR
There was quite a lot of useful information on the reverse.
Because there was no location on the photograph, it was not possible to find the correct Anna Harter among over a hundred possible suspects. So I had to start at the other end of the data and figure out who Marion Stafford was.
The photo was located in Springfield Oregon, and I also discovered that Springfield once had a resident named Marion Stafford who had died about a dozen years ago. His parents were James Benjamin Stafford and Ada Blanche Eells. That most unusual surname of Eells assured me that I was on the right track.
Ada Eells-Stafford was the daughter of Oliver Howard Eells and Mae Dority (seen variously in records as Dorety, Dorrity, Daugherty).
And sure enough, Mae Dority-Eells had a sister name Anna Dority who married a Charles Harter, thus making her the elusive Anna Harter I was seeking. She lived most of her adult like in Oklahoma City, OK.
The "cherry on top" came as I was perusing various Ancestry family trees and found a much earlier photograph of Anna, circa 1895, which when compared side-by-side with the image I had found of Anna Harter, proved that these were the same person.
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