Hi Katherine -

My relatives are burried in the St. Michael's church in Port Austin, Michigan. I was just down there 2 weeks ago. (I LOVE the area) and hadn't been down there in some 20 years.
Katherine - my Great Grandfather - [Joseph Carpenter 1891 - 1949] purchased an OLD BIBLE in the 1930's at a local farm AUCTION and it contained 2 OLD chocolate tin types dating from the 1870's and 1880's - just a couple or young husband & wife and later the husband sitting by himself and wearing a ribbon on his coat. I figured out what the ribbon was - [Knights of Labor/Union member] anyways I went through so many census's and was trying to figure out this man's age and WHO he or they might have been or where he was to receive a Knights of Labor Ribbon on his coat. He looks to have been a TEAMSTER or wagon driver/mill worker with the swelling of his hands. His other photo is a younger version of him & his wife outside posting for their photos in what looks to be a tented booth area.
To view these photos - open this link and scroll to the bottom. (I know these photo's are NOT my relatives and were already in the back of the bible when it was purchased at an AUCTION back in the 1930's in and around the Kinde/Port Austin/ maybe Bad Axe area? Have one of your students or researchers TRY and FIGURE OUT WHO this couple was???????
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mihuron/photoalbum/photoal...
Doug (Carpenter) Mills douglasmills@frontier.com