Cow Hampshire

Tin-type photograph of William Angell & Marietta (Cox) Scales of Woodstock Vermont and Lempster, New Hampshire.

As is often the case, this story revolves around a photograph.  A tin-type photograph shows an aged man and his wife in a seated, somewhat informal pose.  They are both darkly dressed probably in their best Sunday outfits.  The photographer added a bit of pink to their cheeks in the finishing process. The photograph was taken before 1886.

William Angell Scales and his wife Marietta Cox may have been taking the photograph so that their six children would have their likeness after they passed.  Indeed, this photograph, and the other’s contained on this page, exist because they were given to one of their daughters.  At some point, sadly, like many others it ended up on ebay for sale.

William Angell Scales was born in Sunapee, New Hampshire in 1800, and his wife, Marietta Cox, was born in Vermont.  They, and their children, moved back and forth between the two states, as you will see from the ensuing genealogy detail.  In the 1830s and 1840s William and Marietta lived in Woodstock, Vermont where they had their children. By 1853 they were living in Lempster, Sullivan Co., New Hampshire, and they remained in that town until 1886. Continue reading →