Sunday, April 26, 2015

Here are four vintage photos, with two being as old as 1860, as they had belonged to the Nephi, Utah Tolley family.


We have no idea who these photos are of, but we can speculate until somebody has a better guess than me. These original photos belonged to Wm. and Sarah Warren Tolley who were Mormon pioneers, first helping to establish Sanpete County, then coming to Nephi, Utah to help build roads with Wm. being in the Blackhawk War and local Marshall. The first photo has the identifying photographer on the back, which shows Anderson of Ephraim, although the other ink marks are unreadable. As Wm. and Sarah had been in Ephraim in the late 1850's, we wonder if all these folks had been a part of other Mormon settlers in Sanpete or of the original Tolley family. The four women on the top row kinda like the men they are putting their hands on. The last two photos are of a different era, and we have seen dates on similar postcard type photos, which are only about a century old. These are ones that we may ship off to the LDS Church who can then make it available to the millions who will have computer access to them for identification purposes. If you know who they are please contact your local pioneer office!




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