June 11, 2023
Pages 1535-1536
Whole Number 81
COVER PAGE of the QUARTERLY,
Whole No. 81, March, 1973
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| A Family Portrait -- 1895 |
[Webmaster Note: I moved this family info to the cover page as it seemed more fitting than having it span 2 articles.]
The original of the portrait that has been reproduced on the cover of this issue of the Quarterly is owned by Mrs. Mary Ellen Reeves of Sacramento, California. It was taken in 1895. The elderly lady in black sitting in the middle row was Catherine (Sparks) Reed, daughter of Archibald and Sarah (Lewis) Sparks; she was born March 24, 1829 (she had one eye removed as a result of a city fire works accident in Camsville, Missouri).
Seated on Catherine's left is her brother, William Lewis Sparks, born February 10, 1827, a son of Archibald and Sarah (Lewis) Sparks. He was visiting his sister in Cainsville, Missouri, when this picture was taken. Everyone else in the picture is a member either of Catherine's family or that of her half-sister, Martha Eliza (Dietz) Clegg, sitting next to William Lewis Sparks.
In the back row, L-R: are Bert Reed, son of Catherine; Sadie Reed Chambers, daughter of Catherine; Dave Chambers, husband of Sadie; Matilda Reed Glives, daughter of Catherine; Albert Glives, husband of Matilda; Ellen (Cain) Clegg, wife of Richard M. Clegg, with infant son Lewis O. Clegg who was born July 5, 1895; and Richard Marion Clegg, son of James and Martha Clegg and a grandson of Catherine's half-sister, Martha Eliza (Dietz) Clegg.
In the second row is Ava Reed, wife of Bert Reed, holding their infant son Harvey Reed, sitting on her left is Catherine (Sparks) Reed whose husband had been Alexander Harvey Reed; William Lewis Sparks; seated on the left of William Lewis Sparks is his half-sister, Martha Eliza (Dietz) Clegg; and seated at the end of the middle row, wearing a full beard, is James Allen Clegg, Martha's husband.
The seven-year old boy sitting at the far ieft of the bottom row is Dean Glives, son of Matilda and Albert Olives; Alice Reed Wilson, daughter of Catherine (Sparks) Reed, has her arm around Jean; the eight-year-old girl with the lace collar is Lea Glives, daughter of Matilda and Albert Glives, born 1887, and the only member of the group who is still living; the lady in black sitting on Lea's left is Mary Allen (Clegg) Brown, daughter of James and Martha Clegg; the boy sitting on the box at the far right of the picture is Joel Roy Brown, son of Mary Allen (Clegg) Brown.