Minnie

"Minnie" in written on the back of this photo.  It does not give a photographer's name or place.  This is only a guess, but I think it could be Minnie Kerr Kelly the wife of Zed Kelly.  Minnie would be the niece of Ella Eckard Wood.  From the genealogy I have gathered I've found no other Minnie attached to the family.  There is a possibility that this young woman could have been a friend of the family.

Minnie and Zadok E. Kelly Taken in Humbolt, Nebraska



On the back this photo is identified as Minnie and Zed Kelly.  According to the family records I have Minnie was born about 1877 in Bucyrus, Crawford County, Ohio.  Her parents were John Andrew Kerr and Margaret Ann Eckard.  Margaret Eckard Kerr was the oldest child, to my knowledge, of Christopher Eckard and Christina Gross and would have been about eight years older than my direct ancestor Ella Elizabeth Eckard.  Margaret  married John Andrew Kerr in 1876 and Minnie was their first child.  She was born in 1877 also in Bucyrus.  Records indicate she married Zed Kelly in 1900.  I am not sure when they moved further west but Zed died in April of 1946 in Denver, Denver County, Colorado.  I do not have a death date for Minnie, only that it is believed she died sometime after 1953.  Although I know they had children, I don't have any details on them at this time.