This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/Vm3.2ACEB/496.1.1 Message Board Post: Hi Denise, The only information about Hattie OLDHAM that I have is from a slip of paper found behind an ambrotype of Hatti and her friend, Phoebe SMITH. I do not know where she was from. The photograph was taken in 1855. The handwritten note says, "Hattie Oldham & her friend Phoebe Smith. Taken 1855. Poor Hattie at this time thought she was part negro & so did her friends as she had been sold at a slave auction only a short time before at the age of sixteen." I asked that the dealer selling the photo contact me, but so far, no one has. I would like to know where it came from, also. Gloria