By Karen Morris, President of Coarsegold Historic Museum
This is a new item that we have on display at the Coarsegold Historic Museum. It is metal. Do you know what it was used for? Possibly the time frame it was used?
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History Mystery #106: The Adventurous Miss Kitty
Follow-up to History Mystery #106
The following comments were posted on Sierra News Online’s Facebook page:
Katherine Wood
We have one! (A photo of the women dancing on the overhang)
Karen Wyatt Stevenson
Chuck Wyatt
Mary MP Wood
I thought the photo was much earlier than 1962? The clothing certainly suggests turn of the 20th century. The article itself says one of the women was born in 1868. If she was 96 when the photo was taken, she’s awfully spry.
Trudy Truesdell
Mary MP Wood
Yes indeed, the 1800s.Barbara
Leath
Mary MP Wood Reading the article it states, “In the August 16, 1962, issue of the Sierra Star, the photo was posted requesting any information about these two ladies.” It was not the date of the photo. That mystery is solved.
Don Coelho
Mary Coelho
Jim Gatz
Yay
Bill Rothfuss
Norma Fralicks So this is what you were doing August 16, 1962.
Norma Fralicks
If she has a maternity dress on, yes it was me.
Alan Pascoe
It was Sadie Schaeffer that was killed in the Merced, in 1901. Kitty Tatch worked at the World’s Fair in St Louis, Missouri, in 1904, where she met and married John Backhouse, a former British soldier. He was shot and killed just 3 months later by Ernest Criss, from Kansas.
Alan Pascoe
The other Kitty is probably Katherine Hasenzahl, born in Germany in 1870, emigrated to the US in the late 1880s:
https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/GM8P-D7G
Links to pages on FamilySearch search (membership required, but no fee):
Kitty Tatch: https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/G8G6-29T
Ernest Criss: https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/L2TY-1GC
Sadie Schaeffer: https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/L782-Z1Q
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Alan Pascoe
The other Kitty is probably Katherine Hasenzahl, born in Germany in 1870, emigrated to the US in the late 1880s:
https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/GM8P-D7G
Comments from SNO Facebook page:
Marc Lyons
I have one and was told it’s for pulling water out of the well.
Gary Gragnani
– Vintage water bail it is to take water out of a well has a hinged bottom on the inside that opens when it hits the water and closes when lifted from the weight of the water inside —
Sally Steiding McCalla
No idea.
Bennie Nunley
Seventy years ago when I went to Arkansas with my parents, a family member used one to draw water from a well! I hadn’t seen another until now!
Dennis Lyons
I believe you’re right Marc.
Dennis Lyons
Is that the one that was hanging on our parents’ house?