While researching my great-grandaunt, Sadie Crider, I came across a book, published in 2011, titled 𝘉𝘰𝘯𝘯𝘦𝘺 𝘓𝘢𝘬𝘦’𝘴 𝘗𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘢𝘶. I found a used copy at a bookstore and purchased it for two dollars. The book mentions Sadie and her maternal grandfather, Reverend William Maynard, his son, Mark Maynard, and granddaughter, Evelyn Maynard.
Reverend William Maynard moved from Eagle Bend, Minnesota to Sumner, Washington in 1902 and established the Sumner Baptist Church. His seventh child, Charity, had moved to Sumner the previous year and opened a hat store. Several more of her siblings soon followed including Nancy Jane Maynard, Margaret Ellen Maynard, and Mark Maynard. Mark moved his family to Sumner in 1902. He owned the Hotel Sumner.
After I finished reading the book, I contacted the author. We corresponded and she offered to check the archives at the 𝘎𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘉𝘰𝘯𝘯𝘦𝘺 𝘓𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘏𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘚𝘰𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘵𝘺 for me. A week later, she sent me this rare photograph, taken nearly 115 years ago.
The man wearing the hat on the far right is my 3rd great-grandfather, Rev. William Maynard. The man dressed in a tuxedo, standing next to him, looks like Sadie’s husband, John Ezra Kelley. Third from the right looks like my great-great-grandaunt, Margaret Ellen “Maggie” Maynard, who moved to Tacoma before settling in Portland, Oregon. Could the two boys in the middle be her sons, William and Arthur? Or is Willis Harvill the young man in the middle. The boy in front of him is unidentified. Third from the left is my great-great-grandaunt, Charity, and second from the left is her daughter Eva who went by the nickname “Madge”. I’m not certain but the woman on the far left could be my great-great-grandaunt, Nancy Jane Maynard, who had moved to Puyallup. Sadie appears to be missing from this group photo but a very interesting picture nonetheless. It must have been taken after 1905, when Sadie moved to Sumner and met John E. Kelley, and before Rev. Maynard died on March 23, 1908.
If I were to guess, I’d say this photo was taken at the wedding reception of Sadie and John on November 20, 1907. According to a newspaper article, published in the 𝘛𝘢𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘢 𝘕𝘦𝘸𝘴 𝘛𝘳𝘪𝘣𝘶𝘯𝘦, “a very pretty wedding took place at high noon Wednesday, November 20, at the home of Mr. and Mrs. D.M. Snyder, where Miss Sadie Crider was united to John E. Kelley. The ceremony was performed by Rev. Maynard, grandfather of the bride.” So the house in the background could be the home of David McGinnis Snyder and his wife Fannie. Sadie worked as a saleswoman at Snyder’s dry goods store where she sold shoes and other fashions.
