Today we celebrate the 81st anniversary of the birth of Jacqueline Anne Knight.
This photo is one of several in a batch all labeled First Picture, each with Jackie and her mother Marion in basically the same pose.
The handwritten notation on verso is:
1940
Marion Elizabeth Chapman Knight
Jacqueline Anne Knight
First Picture
563 Woodlawn Ave
N. Augusta S. C.
Levi and Marion Chapman Knight roomed at 56 Woodlawn Avenue in North Augusta, South Carolina, from before 22 Oct 1939 (Jackie’s birth) through at least 30 Apr 1940 (1940 US Census).
Woodlawn Avenue was later split into East Woodlawn and West Woodlawn, and the houses were renumbered. Today, 56 Woodlawn Avenue is 214 West Woodlawn Avenue. The house there was built in 1902.
But this photo does not look like that house. The house in the photo is clearly numbered 53. And the address notation on the photo has been changed from 56 to 53 Woodlawn Ave.
Levi and Marion actually roomed in the cottage behind the main house, and the cottage had a number at the time. Here is another photo taken a few months later in front of the main house.
The house and cottage are both still there, and look virtually identical to these photos from 1940.
Thank you to the Arts and Heritage Center of North Augusta for researching the address change, and identifying the location of the first photo as the cottage.
Marion Elizabeth Chapman (1917-1963) is great-grandmother of MKS in the Knight branch.
Jacqueline Anne Knight (1939–2007) is grandmother of MKS in the Knight branch.
References:
[1] KMS Family Genealogy Digital Archive, Jacqueline Anne Knight Spratlin collection (photographs).