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This is a loose photograph kept inside the cover of Anna Balthasar's photo album.
Written on the back of this photograph: "August 1902, Louis Ott Residence, Gardenville."
My cousin Jean (Lepard) Schultz points out that the church across the creek appears to be Fourteen Holy Helpers Roman Catholic Church in Gardenville, New York. If it is, then the Ott residence would have been on Clinton Street just west of Union Road, and this photograph was taken looking south across Buffalo Creek. The 1910 census entry for the Ott family confirms that they lived on Clinton Street, as does an 1880 map of Gardenville by F. W. Beers & Co.
It appears that this photograph was taken on the same day at the same place as another photograph in the "Ott Family Photographs" collection on this website.
The woman on the far right is Catherine Ott Voegele (1825-1908). Seated to her left is her daughter-in-law, Anna Balthasar Voegele (1864-1937). On Anna's lap is her daughter, Josephine Voegele (1897-1991), who married Frank Staebell.
According to my grandmother, the other five people are "members of the Ott family." They are probably the children of Louis Ott (1816?-1896), the brother of Catherine Ott Voegele. According to the 1900 census, these five adult children of Louis lived together in the same household in West Seneca (which is where Gardenville is located):
The members of this household, four women and one man, do not match perfectly with this photograph, which pictures three women and two men. Louis Ott had two other sons, Louis John Ott (1856-1935) and Frank (born 1866), so maybe one of them is pictured here. Or perhaps the extra man is a friend of the family or another relative.
Close-ups from this photograph:
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