Roscoe, Gladys, and John Yegerlehner, 1932 (Photograph from the author’s collection)
Sometimes, even when you think a project is finished, the project isn’t done! I’ve been sorting through the digital images I have stored over the years, from scans of old photographs to my contemporary collection of iPhone photographs. When I posted the collection of pictures of my great grandmother holding my uncle John a few days ago, I completely forgot the above photograph. It belongs in the same pile.
The weather was certainly mild in late February 1932! The 28th landed on a Sunday that year. The perfect day for a family get-together and presumably attending church. Roscoe and Gladys moved frequently in the early days of their marriage. He worked in Clay County teaching school. The setting isn’t rural enough to be Clay County. I presume the photograph’s location to be Terre Haute. In 1932, Emma and James Foster resided at 719 Harrison Street, Terre Haute. When the photographs were taken, James’ divorce from his first wife Gladys was about to be finalized (March 1932). I am also making the assumption that the automobile belonged to Roscoe and Gladys. He bought his first car a year or two before he married Gladys.
719 Harrison Street, Terre Haute (Image courtesy of Google Maps)
If Roscoe, Gladys, Emma, and Jim were standing at the curb, looking back at the house when the photographs were taken, their house would not have been visible. By panning the angles in Google Street view, a large tree obscures the view of the house directly behind the family! Notice the newly planted trees in the background behind Roscoe and Gladys. However, by moving back down the street a house of interest is detected. The two-story house behind Gladys’ head has a gable window as well as roofs of two different heights.
Harrison Street, Terre Haute (Image courtesy of Google maps)
Emma and Jim’s house is the first house on the right. The tree obscures the house directly across the street, but the house with the two roofs and gable is visible to the left of the tree.
Have you searched for an ancestor’s home using Google yet?
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Genealogy Lady 
I certainly have done the same! It is exciting to see where our ancestors once lived. I’ve even done it in person, when I have been close enough. Most recently, I did this in Philadelphia to see where all my Philadelphia ancestors lived as well as where my father lived growing up.
A couple years ago as part of the family vacation we drove by several former family homes as a couple of them are not available via google street view. It’s getter easier to see old homes as google street view coverage increases.
Okay, in this one you look even more like Gladys to me!!
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