Family Friends

As I go through the slides taken by my Gumpy in 1955/56 that I recently converted to digital images, in many photos, I see someone who I am not sure is a close friend or family. One example is below.

Photo by K.D. Jones. Blanche and Mima, Christmas 1956.

The slide was labeled "Blanche and Mima with new purses, Christmas 1956." The woman named Mima appears in several other slides. I also recognized her from an album of photos taken by my Nana and Gumpy in the 1980s. Was she family or a close family friend?

Photo by K.D. Jones. 4 July 1955.

She appears in another slide labeled "Leanna Alma, Emily Mima Blanche", which is helpful, I can now identify in the photo starting from the left, Leanna Couger, daughter of Mary Emily Oyler Couger. Next to her is my great-grandmother, Alma Oyler Jones. Next to Alma is her sister Mary Emily. Then Mima, and on the right, my grandmother Blanche.

Another slide provides a key clue for uncovering who Mima was. The slide below was labeled "the Knights and Joneses around the table at Walter & Emily's". I recognize Blanche in the back and Mima on the left, with my Dad's head in the front.

Photo by K.D. Jones. Dinner in 1956.

Two post-dinner photos show my great-grandparents Alma and Edgar, Mima and her husband, Blanche and my Dad. I reversed one of the photos when converting it so the photo looks like everyone changed positions, but it's just captured backwards.

Photo by K.D. Jones. Post-dinner photo (reversed).

Photo by K.D. Jones. Post-dinner photo.

Clearly Mima and her husband were close friends with my Dad's family. I took a guess in looking at Ancestry for "Mima Knight". After I few searches, I found a potential match. It wasn't until I saw her home address that I knew I had a match. My great-grandparents lived for a time at 102 N. Kealing in Indianapolis. In the 1952 City Directory for Indianapolis, she and her husband Donald Knight lived at 300 N. Kealing. They were neighbors.

A search on Newspapers.com confirmed who the two were.

Indianapolis News, 27 Mar 1961.