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LOC: only one "r" in the name Mary, please.

Incidentally, several agents are already offering prints of this photo (all with the misspelling noted above) on various internet outlets -- including an idiot on Amazon who will make you a big one for only $447.00 -- maybe not an idiot after all, if someone actually takes him up on that offer!

Wystan: In the George Grantham Bain Collection, from which this photograph comes, we sometimes have both a glass negative and a printed photograph. In this case, I was able to locate the photograph and with information noted on the verso, learned that this is Mary Kennon Evans of Portland, Oregon, age 89, mother of Brig. Gen. Robert Kennon Evans. Brig. Gen. Evans is the gentleman pictured on the table. An image of Evans elsewhere in this same collection can be seen here. We can expand this record with more details when we update.

she might be registering to vote. Someplace (in this LOC collectionI remember seeing some other ladies in Oregon who were ceremoniously registering in Oregon, which was in the vanguard in enfranchising women. Here is the photo I was thinking of: www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/2555558153/

Arthur Leslie Evans, son of Arthur Alfred Evans and Constance Mary Evans of 45 Forest Drive East, Leytonstone, London. No identifiable remains were recovered from the Somme battlefield. There is a memorial gravestone to him in the City of London Cemetery at Manor Park, Essex (presumably raised by his parents). On Thursday 20th July 1916 2nd Battalion Suffolks were fighting at Delville Wood near the village of Longueval having come forward in the morning with 76th Brigade to relieve South Africans from a brigade in 9th Division. Amongst numerous casualties suffered by 2nd Suffolks on that day, particularly in X and Y Companies, was 37-year-old Sergeant Arthur Page from Annesdale, Ely. See www.simonknott.co.uk/lifegoeson/people/002fmfpage.htm

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From the Commonwealth Graves Commission
Name: EVANS, WILLIAM DAVID
Initials: W D
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Regiment/Service: South Wales Borderers
Unit Text: 1st Bn.
Date of Death: 25/07/1916
Service No: 33612
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: Pier and Face 4 A.
Memorial: THIEPVAL MEMORIAL

SDGW Info:

Name: William David Evans
Birth Place: Llechyrd, Cardigan
Death Date: 25 Jul 1916
Death Location: France & Flanders
Enlistment Location: Cardigan
Rank: Private
Regiment: South Wales Borderers
Battalion: 1st Battalion
Number: 33612
Type of Casualty: Killed in action
Theatre of War: Western European Theatre

Best Match from 1901 census.
1901 Census records him, 10 years old [b. 1891, Llechryd, Cardiganshire] living with his parents Benjamin [b.1853, Llandugwydd, Cardiganshire] and Anne [b. 1860, Eilgerran, Pembrokeshire] and his younger sister, Mary [b. 1893, Llechryd, Cardiganshire]. The address of the home is the Tivy Side Inn, his father being recorded as the inn-keeper. The premises survived until 1934 when it was demolished although it had not been a public house since 1930, having been closed under the auspices of the 1910 Licensing (Consolidation) Act, a re-hash of the Licensing Act 1904. Compensation was paid to the owner of the premises and the licensee for the removal of the license and the closure of the premises.
Below is an overlay of a 1906 map onto a Google Earth screen-shot of the location of the premises with two turn of the century photographs of the premises one showing a stage-coach the other show the premises view from across the river Tivy. Click on the picture for a large version.

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