Hi listers. To keep from duplicating efforts, I am copying the information I sent Holly last night. ******* What fun for you to have such a collection of photos. If you find any from Platte County, I would really like to post them to the website for others to enjoy. Please, please don't throw them out. You have quite a treasure! The name is very familiar to me, and I was sure I had more information on him posted on the Platte County website. Unfortunately, the only helpful information I found there was the following: W.R. Notestein died at Salida, Colorado, Wednesday morning last from blood poisoning caused by an operation for appendicitis some two months ago. Mr. Notestein will be remembered by Journal readers as a photographer while here. He was conscientious in the performance of duty, and had many friends here, who sincerely sympathize with the widow in her bereavement. [The Columbus Journal, March 5, 1902] You can see a picture of his headstone at: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg. cgi?page=gr&GSln=notestein&GSiman=1&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSob=n&GRid=45347857 &df=all& According to that website, his name was William and his wife's name was Mary. She died February 19, 1917. I'm telling you things about him that really aren't helping you ;>) I'm trying to find more about him to know if he had a son that might have become a photographer as well. I have access to census records and tried to find him in 1900. Either he was missed or his name was muddled--but in any event I can't find him. It appears he was living in Columbus in 1895 when a mention was made that he received a letter from someone notifying him of a death. I don't have any city directories that old, so it would be hard to find an address of his business. I checked my collection of school yearbooks (in case he had advertised in there), but I don't have one that early (1902 is the earliest I have). I'm wondering if the pictures you have were re-matted. In other words, did the owner use old mats for more recent photos? Just a thought since our dates see off by quite a few years. ****and later**** Well, I finally found William R. and Mary H. in 1900. Their names were transcribed wrong. Assuming I have the right people, they lived in Chaffee, Colorado. W.R. was born in Iowa in November of 1856 (so was only 46 when he died). Mary was born in New York in June of 1853. They had been married 22 years. There were no children listed (which is what I was looking for). Of course, they might have had a child early in their marriage that was no longer living at home. But I haven't found another W.R. Notestein yet, either. **** Sherri Brakenhoff NEGenWeb Coordinator and List Administrator

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