I recently posted a story about this mystery photo. It was included in a packet of photos of various people and locations related to the Rigg and Farley clans in the Kanawha Falls area.
Escape to Her Grandfather’s Ferry
This photo is from “Album of Virginia, Plate 26, Kanawha Fall. Edward Beyer, 1858” – the time period is very close to the time of this story, which refers to a period between 1847 (Nancy Montgomery Rigg’s birth) and 1852 (the death of her grandfather Henry Montgomery). Frances Folsom Farley (1886-1076), known as “Aunt Aggie” to … Read more