It took me over a year to really sit down and analyze the information I had on this photo, but I have finally decided that this is indeed a photograph of my great-grandfather. Although I have no definite links in the way of actual documents, there are too many things that tell me he is, and I have finally added him to my family tree. I thank the distant relative on ancestry.com for contacting me. This photo is a young Joseph, most likely a photo in his teens.
Journaling reads: Joseph Tinnie Carruthers b.1877, d. 1947. A possible connection to my family tree. In 2013, I was contacted through ancestry.com, and asked about the possible family connection that came from a family name. She felt that the name of Tinnie (Tinnith) was the connection that Joseph Caruthers in her family tree was the father of Flossie Mae Carruthers, (my grandmother). I learned that Joseph Tinnie Carruthers received this middle name from his mother. It was her first name. She died the same month as his birth, most likely in childbirth. Tinnie is not a common name, and most likely a family name. My uncle Joseph Moore has the same middle name of Tinnie. He was likely Joseph Tinnie Carruthers grandson.
A third connection comes from where they lived. Joseph Tinnie Carruthers was born in Muscogee, Georgia. He moved to North Carolina as a young man, possibly when he married Catherine Horton in the early 1900s. They had a daughter Flossie Mae in 1904. Joseph and Catherine divorced soon after, and Joseph was never heard from again. Years later, when Flossie Mae married Adam Clinton Moore, they lived in Gastonia, North Carolina. They moved with their young family to Muscogee, Georgia and lived for a time with Flossie Maes mother Catherine. They eventually moved back to Gastonia, where they raised their 6 children, one of whom was Joseph Tinnie Moore.
Joseph Tinnie Carruthers went on to remarry and have 5 more children, all sons. I learned that he completed two years of college. I learned that he lived his entire adult life in Greensboro, North Carolina, and that he retired, having worked as a book-keeper for one of the many textile mills in Greensboro. He died at the early age of 69, most likely having never seen his daughter Flossie Mae again, nor did he ever meet any of her six children - his grand-children.. Flossie Mae died 2 years later in 1949 at just 46 years of age. It causes me sadness that we learn of his life after Catherine some 60 plus years after his death.
Everything by Anna Aspnes:
ArtPlay Palette Glance http://www.oscraps.com/shop/product.php?productid=10011023&cat=298&page=1
Gold Paint No. 4 http://www.oscraps.com/shop/product.php?productid=10011021&cat=298&page=1
InkedWords Everyday No. 1 http://www.oscraps.com/shop/product.php?productid=10011022&cat=298&page=1
LoopDaLoop ArtsStrokes No. 1 http://www.oscraps.com/shop/product.php?productid=27868&page=2
ArtPlay Palette Frozen Tramsfers http://www.oscraps.com/shop/product.php?productid=10010821&page=1
ArtPlay Palette Frozen BrushSet http://www.oscraps.com/shop/product.php?productid=10010816&page=1
SkinnyLined Overlays No. 1 http://www.oscraps.com/shop/product.php?productid=29470&page=1
ArtPlay Palette Woodland (straw flower upper left) http://www.oscraps.com/shop/product.php?productid=31752&page=1
ArtPlay Palette Viaggio (key and string) http://www.oscraps.com/shop/product.php?productid=31752&page=1
Dripped Stains No. 5 http://www.oscraps.com/shop/product.php?productid=27934&page=1
Acrylic AlphaNumberSet No. 1 http://www.oscraps.com/shop/product.php?productid=30653&page=1
Layered Edge Overlays No. 2 http://www.oscraps.com/shop/product.php?productid=30653&page=1
The Process: I began with the neutral kardstock from AP Glance. I added the white creased paper, and placed it on blend mode Linear Burn. I then blended the center image unto the page, placing it on blend mode Darker Color. I copied it and moved the image to the left a bit, I copied it again, and moved it to the left edge of the paper. I reduced the opacity of the middle image to about 50%, and then reduced the image on the left edge to about 30%. Once the images were in place, I added the large polka dot paper underneath the images, placed it on blend mode Multiply, and then used a gradient mask to allow just a hint of the dots to appear mainly on the left of the page. I then added the title alpha - RELATIONS was left all caps. I used the title alpha as a clipping mask, clipping a kardstock to it. I added a stroke to the title, and then created a custom shadow. For the Lost portion of the title, I gave it a shadow, and then went back and brought the fill of the alpha down to 0%, so that only the shadow defined the word. I then added some detail to the page by adding a variety of transfers along the edge at 3 points. I also added the watery transfer under the images, reducing their opacity as necessary so as to not over-power the images. I then began to add elements along the same 3 edge points that I added the transfers to. I finished up with an edge overlay, and the SkinnyLined Overlay. I dont know that I did my great-grandfather justice with this page, but I have been wanting to scrap it for so very long, and this beautiful kit seemed like the perfect kit for it.
Fonts: Lithos Pro, dearJoe4, Eras Light ITC
***thanks for looking***
