This "Post
Card" Photo was addressed to Ward's
brother Frank Danforth in Pine River,
Minnesota located in Cass County and had been
sent from Upland, California with a one cent
stamp. The postmark looks to be dated the
10th of August.
Ward was the son of Addison
Danforth and Jennie (Birge), and was born in
Baldwin Township, Barnes County, North
Dakota. He died in Los Angeles, California
and he and Martha were the parents of two
children - daughter Naomi; and son Robert
Taylor whom they adopted at the age of 14
months in the year 1924 after his mother
died. - Ward and Martha had cared for Robert
while his mother was ill; and his widowed
father having five children, allowed the
Danforths to adopt him. He was born Robert
Francis Taylor and is the father of Martha
Danforth-Ruiz.
The photo made its journey from
San Bernardino County to Jenny (Miller)
Laskaris, niece of Ward and Frank, and
daughter of their sister Bertha who married
Charles Miller. Jennie Laskaris recently
passed the photo to Ward's granddaughter,
Martha (Danforth) Ruiz, who now cares for it
and has kindly contributed a scanned image of
it for the web site.
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