Comments on: Latter-day Saint Images, 1905

By: Chad Too

Chad Too — Sun, 12 Jun 2011 03:50:07 +0000

Interesting. That spot on the map is spitting distance from the Catawba Reservation but no one in the picture looks Native American. I’m guessing the Catawba had their own branch at the time.

By: Ardis E. Parshall

Ardis E. Parshall — Sat, 11 Jun 2011 18:04:40 +0000

Curt scores a three-pointer. Thanks, Curt.

By: CurtA

CurtA — Sat, 11 Jun 2011 17:49:36 +0000

I will guess it is Roddey, SC, in York County southeast of Rock Hill. it shows up in Microsoft Streets and Trips sofware. The closest community on my Rand-McNally is Lesslie.

By: Ardis E. Parshall

Ardis E. Parshall — Sat, 11 Jun 2011 08:13:50 +0000

A Google text search doesn’t help at all, either. No, there is no more information — it’s just one of those random filler photos.

Maybe someone with access to a census database for 1900 and 1910 can search for it (if no one has by the time I’m next in a library, I will.)

By: Chad Too

Chad Too — Sat, 11 Jun 2011 06:15:36 +0000

Google Maps doesn’t have any hits come up for a Roddy, SC (and yes, you knew that I’d be wondering about the pic from the Carolinas) Any further info to help isolate the spot?

By: lindberg

lindberg — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 23:05:13 +0000

Re: #5

I think the “horizontal” guy wires are actually running down to the ground, like the others, but this photo was taken from inside the wires (that is, closer to the monument than the anchor points), so the slope of the cables isn’t obvious.

By: Cameron

Cameron — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 17:24:32 +0000

John, you are correct, Elder Richards is on the front row furthest on the right with the moustache and seated with his arm on Pres. Grant.

By: john willis

john willis — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 16:52:32 +0000

In regards to post# 3 I think LeGrand Richards in in the first row (with the three elders seated). He is seated beneath president Grant and slightly to his right.

If anyone has a copy of Lucille Tates biography of him I think this picture is in it and should tell me if I am right or wrong.

By: Ardis E. Parshall

Ardis E. Parshall — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 16:41:03 +0000

J., Thun was one of the early footholds in Switzerland, but I’m still a little surprised by the size, too. In some parts of the US a lot of non-LDS children came to Mormon Sunday Schools but I doubt that was the case in Switzerland — there is too much history of severe persecution there early on. So even though I’m surprised, I suspect the kids are all LDS, a real Mormon Sunday School.

By: J. Stapley

J. Stapley — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 16:30:54 +0000

Should I not be surprised by the size of the Thun Sunday School?