Something About Mary

This photo has always puzzled me. 

The photo is marked that the man is Charley Liden, my great grandfather. 

The woman, Mary, is the sister to Anna, the woman Charley married. 

At the estimated time this photo was taken, Anna was 2-3 yrs old. 

The young man in the photo is Oscar, the son of Henry C Liden. 

I estimate he's around 17 here. Henry Liden is Charley's brother.

So what brings three members of different households 

together for a formal portrait? 

I could make up stories... lol 

but sometimes the truth is even stranger than fiction! 

I guess we'll never know.

Then again, maybe my Grandmother had all the names wrong ...... 

Miss Mary 1898

This is Mary Kringsberg, sister to Anna, 

who was the wife of Charley Liden (Myrtle's Dad). 

Isn't this a gorgeous photo? And what a fancy dress ... 

I imagine it a soft brown, with black ribbons and accents. 

It was taken by J. Borry, in TRF, and he was there in 1898. 

She would have been 21 years old. I wonder what the occasion was? 

There's a photo on the table, I wonder if it was of her mother, Maria, who died in 1888?