In 1888, Eloise married Charles Lowe, who died in 1895. IN 1900, the widowed Eloise was living in Jackson. In 1910, Eloise's 72-year-old mother Emily was also widowed (Newton died in 1904) and living with her married daughter Amy. In 1916, Emily died. In 1920, 57-year-old Eloise was still living in Jackson, with her 45-year-old sister Mary Alice. Eloise worked as a stenographer and Mary Alice as a bookkeeper. Eloise died in Jackson in January of 1924 and is buried in Highland.
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Why is one of three children of a farm family wearing such a fancy dress?
Here's my theory (from a FB post): Eloise was born in 1862. In this pic she looks roughly 6 or so years old, dating the photo to 1868. That is the year her little sister Mabel died. Later Amy and Mary Alice were born...but when I first saw the 11-year gap between Eloise's and Amy's ages on the census, I wondered if a child had died. Later checked out the family card in the Archives and sure enough...it was Mabel. I'm guessing this pic was taken for a very sad reason: the family feared that their only other child at the time, Eloise, might be next to die, so this photo would be a keepsake. Or, perhaps it was taken as part of a series of photos done at the time of Mabel's death, a set that may have included a memorial photo or "death photo" of Mabel, fairly common in that era.
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