Unknown Carroll Miles photo's

This is an unknown old photo from Carroll's things.  I think it's very cool even if I never know who the man is.

Unknown.

On the back of both of these photo's is the name, "Thesba Yeaton (Johnson)".  When I looked in Carroll's birthday book (yes he kept a little tiny book with all the peoples names written in on the days they were born, some way back in the mid 1800's) I found Thesba Yeaton written in with the year 1918 beside it.  I looked up her name and birthday and found a census from 1930 that lists her as a daughter in a household of Yeaton's.  And there's two boarder's listed in the house, one is Mildred C. Miles, age 26.  I now know the Mildred C. Miles is the child of Etta Brooks who is an Aunt to Earl Herbert Miles (unsure of which side of the family she is an aunt on yet)  However, the man in the photo looks like Carroll and also has the resemblance of my father, Carroll's son, Leon.  I would assume the date of this photo would be around 1938-1943 (assuming the girl is 20 - 25).  Carroll was separated/divorced from Grace and married his second wife in 1936.  so... maybe he dated this girl first??

This photo is labeled, "Mrs. Rayman".  Nothing else is known.

Unknown woman from Carroll Miles' collection.

Hirst siblings with Grace

Cecil Hirst.  Brother to Grace Miles.

This is from my Aunt Ellen's files.  It is in order of left to right Grace Miles, Chester Hirst, Lina Meister, and Todd Hirst.

Another picture of Grandmother Grace's sister Lina Meister.

This is Todd and Chester Hirst. Chester worked at the Middletown Ny sanitarium for a period of time around 1930. See the following link for phots of the sanitarium. 

www.thrall.org/middletown/c8_18.htm

This is Todd Hirst

Esther Hirst

These are pictures of Esther Hirst, daughter of Willis and Naomi Hirst.  Niece of Grace Miles.

This is a photo of Esther Hirst Spence and her adopted son, Mark David Spence.  He passed away in 2002 at the age of 45 with Non Hodgkins lymphoma.

Mark David Spence, 22 months old

Esther, 1947.

I find this picture interesting.  She's dressed up nice, with corsage and everything.  And there's a primitive tent with laundry hanging in the background.  Is she camping?  Is it campmeeting??

Ellen Miles (BD 3-24-25) and her Aunt Esther Miles (BD 6-13-25) about 1928 at Grandpa Henry Miles'  "The Bell" Farm near Montpelier, Vt.  Granddad married Anna Bell after her husband died.

Unknown family, Irwin Clark

So... on the back of this photo in handwriting that looks like Carroll Miles' there are two names.  "Irwin Clark" is written on the bottom.  And along the upper left corner, "Carroll".  The print on the bottom of the photo is the name and address of the photo studio in Manchester, N.H.  I have nothing in my ancestry.com family history on any Clark's.  However, I am assuming that this family was from Manchester and that it was taken in the early 1900's because of the photo style, etc.  I have found in the 1940 census a Leon I. Clark that lived on a farm of his brother's in Manchester, N.H.  He was 24 in 1940.  His wife's name was Margaret (23) and 2 boys are listed in the census, Robert (2) and Ronald (infant...11mos?).  This all fits this photos'details (wife with 2 boys approx 2 years apart).  I have yet to find out how they are connected to Carroll Miles.  Possibly good friends in farming community?? But I find that unlikely since I would assume photo's were expensive back then.  This photo was in a file of Aunt Ellen's labeled Ancient Unknown. Ha! :)

Evelyn Miles Call, sister to Carroll and her daughter Clara Call Jobes

Carroll Miles's sister, Evelyn Miles Call.  Taken when she was 20 years old on December 25, 1920.

This is Clara Call Jobes.  She is the daughter of Evelyn Miles Call.  Taken in 1945

This is a sawmill in Stukeley,Vermont with Evelyn on the porch. I have found that there was a Perry Orison Miles and Etta Brooks with children, Edith, Clyde, Hazel, Howard, Florence, and Mildred.  They lived in Stukelely, Vermont and in the 1910 census it states that Perry was a saw mill worker.  Perry Miles and Evelyn Miles are cousins.  Perry's father, Orrin P Miles was brothers with my Great Grandfather, Creighton Miles.  To put it in Carroll's point of view, Perry was his first cousin, and Perry's dad was his great uncle.  I have a note from Aunt Ellen regarding the names of people in a photo with all the Perry Miles family listed.  Now I know who Mildred Miles is (see photo of Thesba Yeaton posted above)

Obit for Evelyn Miles Call.

Ann Edna Miles

The inside of this graduation photo holder (hard covered holder) has a hand written note that says, "To Uncle Carroll, Love Ann"  This is the daughter of Carroll's brother Earle Miles.

Letters from Carroll to daughter Ellen

I've been reading my Grandfather Carroll's letters to my Aunt Ellen (youngest daughter of Grace).  And fascinated with his life lately.  I would love to plan a trip to Vermont and try to find where he lived and worked.  He was a farm man.  I have finally deciphered the name of his farm, Hylanvue Farm.

I also googled the name and found Adventist archives of an advertisement he placed.  Atlantic Union Gleaner, October 20, 1943, page seven, top left corner.  

http://docs.adventistarchives.org/docs/ALUG/ALUG19431020-V42-41__B.pdf?q=docs/ALUG/ALUG19431020-V42-41__B.pdf

Also in the Alantic Union Gleaner, April 19, 1946, page seven, bottom right corner: 

http://docs.adventistarchives.org/docs/ALUG/ALUG19460419-V45-16__B.pdf?q=docs/ALUG/ALUG19460419-V45-16__B.pdf

I recently deciphered a letter sent in response to a Christmas letter from Ellen.  Here is the deciphered letter and followed by scanned images of the letter, written on shredded wheat cardboard cards.  Interesting family tidbit:  Please notice that his envelope has a single L as his first name spelling, but he signed his letter with 2 L's and also the advertisements in the Adventist paper spells with 2 L's.  Also please know that I only copied his letter word for word, letter for letter.  So the mispellings and word usage was his. :)

Craftsbury, Vt.

                                                                                                Hylanvue Farm

                                                                                                Dec. 31, 1954

My Dear Ellen:

                Your greeting arrived yesterday in my absence from the Farm.  As for this being late – never; - because Dec. 25, Xmas does not mean a thing to me.  It used to be and well is the many years, - about 53 of them still fresh in my memory.  The best feature of the fad is to be able to hear from many friends who I don’t otherwise.  But one time when Rozel and I were going through the mountains or at Campmeeting, she got some mottoes to hang on the walls, made of wood, and one is: “Love never faileth.”  And I’m happy to witness the truth of it, as proven in any experiences.  It has been the reason for some of my hard knocks but if I had of followed some of the advice of my friends and neighbours denying you children the companionship of your own mother we know not now what would have been the results.  My love for her and you children did not die when she took you away from me, and I was sick for a long time.  At times it was almost impossible for me to keep on working but my steady work even with small pay was surely a wonderful blessing to help me sleep when my anxiety for your welfare would almost floor me.

                Yes, - the deep waters of the dark experiences in my life have been bitter but the joy and sweetness of the variations have been more appreciated.

                You would not ask where Rozel is if you would only stop to think and remember that she and the girls, Norma Jean and Carol Ann have been in South Lancaster every year from Sept to June since that began except Norma Jean went to west Lebanon, N.H. her first year.  And although she was so lonesome and homesick that Rozel had to stay with her for a couple of months after Xmas she would not give up her church school and come home with her mother until it closed.  We hired a neighbor to take us down to get her the day of the picnic after it was all over.

                You see this answer to your letter in with your greetings is longwinded.  Its not the lack of stationary but the many times one of these shredded wheat cards cut down makes a visiting card live continual (?).

                We still have the Hylanvue Farm where the most of my time is spent and we have had to rent places in So. Lancaster, Mass.  Rozel does not want me to sell the farm and I love it too, even thou it is hard for us to get along as we have but this winter I’m loging the hardwood and expect next spring to clear up the tops for wood by myself.  There will be about a thousand cord or more.

                It was awefully nice of you to remember me.  Leon and Eldora sent me a xmas card too.  They are to busy to write, even to send a few lines in answer to a long letter which I wrote them last summer.  Will you please let me hear from you again sometime soon?

                Good bye dear for now with much love from your

                                                                                Daddy

                                                                                Carroll H. Miles

P.S. I love U.  Sometime if I do sell the farm or my ship gets off the rocks U may all be surprised. C.H.M.