Barbara Porter and her twin sister Betty were born in Seattle, Washington, in 1916. Here are their senior pictures from Garfield High School, Class of 1934. (Barbara is on the left)
[Ancestry.com - U.S., School Yearbooks, 1900-1990]
According to U.S. Census records Barbara was still living with her parents in 1940. By 1953 she was married to Ernest V. Elkins, which seems to have been a second marriage for both of them.
Barbara is one of my paternal first cousins, twice removed; the ancestors we share are B.R. Biddle and his wife Maria Evans.
[Ancestry.com]
I just learned about Barbara from these index cards in the State of Oregon's Biographical and Other Index Card File. So far I haven't been able to find out much more about my cousin's life, but it's clear she was very proud of her descent from Oregon Pioneers. (Note that the reference to scrapbooks--I wonder what's in them?)
[Ancestry.com. Oregon, Biographical and Other Index Card File, 1700s-1900s [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014. This collection was indexed by Ancestry World Archives Project contributors. Original data: Oregon, Biographical and Other Cards. Oregon Historical Society, Portland, Oregon.]
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Hey, the source info is in Portland! Lyn may even be a member of the Oregon Historical Society. She could probably be persuaded to look at the scrapbooks and tell you about them to see if you wanted anything copied.
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