This
postcard is out of date order sequence that the balance of these cards and
letters are. This is because of problems
dating the card and the additional research that was necessary.
Postmarked: Wells, ?, Dec 10, 19?
"Now
you better answer this card without talks through the phone. Now will wish all a happy Christmas and new
year. Good bye old friend. Halo you old
I don't believe I will say that. How are you anyway. I haven't forgot you if I haven't wrote.
Well, it is soon Xmas again & hope you will all have a good time. I think I will spend Christmas with Ma if all
is well. Tell all the boys and girls
hello. From,
Emma Zollig, your old friend."
I
had some trouble dating this card and figuring out who this person was. Here is my thinking:
The
card has a copyright date on the front of 1909.
Her
reference to the "phone" might suggest that the phone is a fairly new
thing. What year the phone got to
Kilgore is unknown.
I
researched Emma Zollig in the "History of Clark County", in the
findagrave.com website and finally in Ancestry.com. I found only a single Emma Zollig on Ancestry.com
and she was born in Richfield, Utah. Her parents were born in Denmark. She was
enumerated Richfield in the 1900 and the 1910 US Census.
My conculusion: Emma is a friend of Anna Christine
Frederiksen from her days in Richfield, Utah between 1890 and 1895. They have maintained contact by mail over the
years. The date of the card is after
1909 and before 1917 when the Frederiksens moved to Lewisville.
Small clues are sometimes important. The card is also addressed to Fremont County. Clark County, where Kilgore is located, came into being on February 1, 1919.
ReplyDeleteSubsequent family conversations reveal that phone service was available in Kilgore as early as 1913 but was later discontinued and was not reinstalled again until 1951.