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Contributor: Nancy Lee (Johnson) Racunas
Collection: Nancy Lee (Johnson) Racunas Collection (Code: RACU)
Series: Fordyce-Fox (Code: AN001)
Item #: RACU_AN001_0001
Photographer: No photographer listed.
Physical Detail: To Be Added
Date: circa 1890
Caption: Family of James Alfred Fordyce and his wife, Naomi (Mason) Fordyce taken at the family home, Miracle Run, West Virginia. Pictured [Left-Right]: BACK - Drusilla Florence Fordyce, Hester Jane "Hettie" (Fordyce) Lemley, Arthur Lee Fordyce, Martie (Tennant) Fordyce, Martin Luther Fordyce, Sanford Tennant Fordyce, Mary Ellen Fordyce, Anna Eliza (Fox) Fordyce; FRONT - David Sanford Lemley with his daughter Mary Ellen Lemley and son Simeon Lemley, Spencer Fordyce holding his son Brooks Fordyce, James Alfred Fordyce, Naomi (Mason) Fordyce, John Barnett Fordyce with his son James Fordyce and holding his daughter Jennie Fordyce

Description / Citation: Photograph of the family of James Alfred Fordyce [1838-1919] and his wife, Naomi (Mason) Fordyce [1840-1929] taken circa 1890 at the family home, Miracle Run, West Virginia. Pictured [Left-Right]: BACK - Drusilla Florence Fordyce, Hester Jane "Hettie" (Fordyce) Lemley [wife of David Sanford Lemley], Arthur Lee Fordyce, Martie (Tennant) Fordyce [wife of Spencer Fordyce], Martin Luther Fordyce, Sanford Tennant Fordyce, Mary Ellen Fordyce, Anna Eliza (Fox) Fordyce [wife of John Barnett Fordyce]; FRONT - David Sanford Lemley with his daughter Mary Ellen Lemley and son Simeon Lemley, Spencer Fordyce holding his son Brooks Fordyce, James Alfred Fordyce, Naomi (Mason) Fordyce, John Barnett Fordyce with his son James Fordyce and holding his daughter Jennie Fordyce. Reproduction, candid. The Fordyce-Fox Series photographs were passed from John Barnett Fordyce [1863-1932] and his wife, Anna Eliza Fox [1869-1929], to their son Denny Fordyce [1893-1980] and his wife, Martha Wanda Ferrell [1897-1969], to their daughter Sara Lee Fordyce [1924-2004] and her husband, David Oscar Johnson [1923-1998], to their daughter, Nancy Lee (Johnson) Racunas who owned and shared the photographs with the Greene Connections: Greene County, Pennsylvania Photo Archives Project in 2007. Each generation added to the collection with photographs from their own family and in-laws. The Fordyce-Fox Series is a part of the Nancy Lee (Johnson) Racunas Collection.


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