Saturday, December 20, 2014

Edith, Elsie, Marian, Elbert - October, 1972

This picture was taken in the late summer of 1972 at Nina and Jon Whitneys' house in Rotterdam (Schenectady), NY

Starting on the left:

Edith Lindsay Pugh - Aunt Ede - oldest sister and oldest 
child of 8

Elsie Lindsay Norwalk - Aunt Elsie

Marian (Marion) Lindsay Whitney - youngest sister and youngest child of 8 - mother of Jon Whitney, Joseph Whitney, and Cheryl Whitney Wolff

On the far right of the picture - Elbert  (Uncle Bert) Tanner,  husband of Elizabeth (Aunt Betty) Lindsay Tanner  who had died in the late 1960s

Marian was born the same year Aunt Ede was married - a difference of 20 years in their ages

Edith (Aunt Ede), Mildred (Aunt Millie), Elizabeth (Aunt Betty), Elsie (Aunt Elsie), and Marian (Marion) made up the Lindsay girl line-up from oldest to youngest - 5 daughters of the 8 children of John Francis Lindsay and Alice Elthorpe Lindsay - the three boys were Joseph, Walter, and John (Jack)