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Re: Yohn Geneaology

Posted: 2 Feb 2012 11:58PM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Yohn, Wright, Andrews
Fannie Wright was my great grandmother, so Charles Yohn must have been the brother of my grandmother, Sallie Yohn, from Pottstown.

I have Fanny Wright's "Forget-Me-Not Album" and her photo album, along with a plated silver pitcher from the Franklin House and other odds and ends. There's a plated spoon (Rogers Bros 1867?) with the letters "SRW" that apparently belonged to Fannie Wright, but then who was S.R. Wright? The flyleaf of her autograph album bears the inscription "Presented to Miss Fannie Wright by her friend G.W. Andrews of Winchester, Va. Dec. 25th 1861." There are entries by her sister(s) and many others, including P. Yohn, whom she eventually married. The photos in the album aren't labeled, but I should think that Charles Yohn would be among the subjects. There are soldiers in Union uniforms, a few priests, some dead babies, and many somber, straight-faced people looking stiff and uncomfortable in layers of dark , heavy clothing. I'd love to know who they are, and who penned the ornately worded homages to "Miss Fannie" some 150 years ago. I hope Eagelstootsie is still there and still interested.
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