Thursday, March 25, 2010

Bill Noel Family and Homeplace, Adams Co. Pa.

William Alexander Rudolph Noel and Ellen Francina Smith Noel with their eldest surviving children, c. 1895. Bill and Ellen are pictured with his mother, Joanna Margaret Adams Noel, in front of their home near New Oxford, Adams Co. Pa, with children Mary Alice, Charlie, James, Adelaide, Arthur, Leo and Edna. Their daughter Adelaide Cecilia (center in white dress,) was my great-grandmother.

Bill Noel was a prominent blacksmith in Adams Co. from the 1870s.

Bill and Ellen in front of the homeplace, with youngest son Leo in the early 1920s. Shutters and a front porch were added to the house in the early 20th Century. Leo, who appears as a child in the first photograph, was born in 1893.

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