Another Sepia Saturday
These three darling children are first-generation Swedish Americans. Oscar (left), Mabel and Elmer Miller were the children of Samuel Philander Bengtsson Miller and Wilhelmina Blomgren Nelson Miller. Last week, I introduced you to the children's maternal grandparents. The little boy on the right (circa 1906 or 1907) is my maternal grandfather. He was the first child of the marriage, though he had two older step-siblings from his mother's first marriage. She married Samuel after being widowed by the time she was 30. Elmer was born in the Frenchtown Precinct, Walla Walla County, Washington on October 5, 1900. For those of you who don't know the area, "Frenchtown" is now the home of the L'Ecole No. 41 Winery. Samuel and Wilhelmina were living on homestead land that Wilhelmina proved up after her first husband died. Samuel had staked a homestead in Wallowa County, Oregon, perhaps 100 miles away from Walla Walla, Washington. Sometime ar...