Marvel Wood, our mother’s first cousin, in a photo taken on New Year’s Day in 1900. She probably got the doll for Christmas, 1899. She died in 1943, at the age of 48. She was married but had no children. Her mother, Ida Belle Howard Wood, was our grandfather’s older sister. She sent the doll to our mother, Alice LeFern Howard Minten, her niece, for safe keeping in March of 1944, when Janie Minten was just a month old. We still have the German, porcelain bisque doll in our possession.

Janie Minten