Does this belong under your tree?

As I mentioned last week, a few years ago I purchased several items of genealogical interest at an estate sale in Portland, Oregon. In hopes of finding a family member interested in claiming these materials, I placed a notice on a message board and was soon contacted by someone who thought my collection pertained to relatives of one of her lines. I emailed scans of several items which were most genealogically significant and offered to mail the collection to her. Unfortunately I relocated soon afterward and lost track of the items, and by the time I came upon them again, her email address was no longer valid.

I've moved again, at least three times since then. The fact is, I have no idea where the items are at this moment in time, but as a little Christmas giftie for anyone who might be interested, I've uploaded the entire collection of scans to a Picasa Web Album.

Actually, I'd be very surprised if our own genea-blogger Becky at Kinexxions wasn't interested in this. Last month I saw her photo and post about Lysander Joslin, and when I saw how much he resembled the Alonzo Joslyn in my estate sale find, I nabbed his picture to make the side-by-side comparison below. Could a universe exist in which these two heads of hair don't spring forth from the same DNA?


The photo of Rev. A.J. Joslyn appears in a booklet, 1906 Year Book and Directory of the Gilman Park Methodist Episcopal Church of Ballard, Washington, which includes an alphabetical listing of the church members. The pages of the booklet appear in the slideshow below.

Also included in the slideshow is a four-page letter dated February 2, 1906, written by Alonzo Joslin (note the alternate spelling), who was also familiarly known as Lon. The letter was written to his nephew Marshall (E.M. Joslin of Weiser, Idaho). In it, Alonzo mentions several family members by name and relationship, along with the date of his wife's death (June 19, 1905) and that of his brother Ben, who died the next day (June 20, 1905) in Salem, Oregon.

The rest of the collection is postcards, some of which have photographs or messages of interest. Postcards are shown image side first, then message side, except in two instances. The "Owl Camp" postcard is shown front-only, no back. And the final postcard, a Christmas greeting "To Father from Lon," is displayed message-side first. Most items date between 1906 and 1920. Most names and places appearing in the collection are listed below the slideshow.

(To pause on a particular slide, mouse over the lower edge to make control arrows appear.)

Names and places appearing in the Joslin correspondence slideshow:

• Rev. A.J. Joslyn, aka Alonzo Joslin, called Lon
• Ben Joslin
• Harry Joslin
• E.M. Joslin, called Marshall
• Mr. & Mrs. C.A. Joslin (possibly Carl & Emma?)
• Wesley S. Joslin
• Joe Joslin
• Dan Joslin
• Mrs. Hoff
• M.L.B. (initials)
  
• Alice M. Fox
• Eula Marshall
• Lillian Marshall
• Eva M. Reedy
• Oliver Calmar Reedy
• Margaret Maribel Reedy
• Mr. & Mrs. W.T. Ferguson
  
• Joslin Asbury Association
• Terre Haute
• Pollock
• Riley (in 1906), formerly known as Lockport
• Weiser, Idaho
• Boise
  
• Salem, Oregon
• Gervais, Oregon
  
• Kirkwood, Missouri
• Ballard, Washington
• Osceola, Nebraska
• Cameo, Colorado
• Buttonwillow, California

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