This is Fresno in 1886. By that time John Brown Rutledge (b. in Kentucky or Tennesse in 1839) appears to have owned the general store you see below. He is second from the right leaning on the post. He died sometime in the 1890s. John Brown Rutledge was the father of Guy Rutledge.
In the photo below is Clark Levitt Nichols. This is Leah Nichol's father, Fred Rutledge's grandfather. He was b. in Indiana in 1857 and died in Fresno in 1904. The photo was taken the year of his death. He was married to Wilhamie Culver, b. in Missouri on March 7, 1862, in 1885. She passed away in Fresno Ca., April 2, 1949. They had seven children: Delbert (b. Jan. 3, 1886, d. Fresno 1949), Alice May Nichols (b. Nov. 21, 1887, d. in Fresno in the 1980s); Homer Nichols (b. 1889, d. 1890); Millard Nichols (b. 1892, d. 1960); John Newton Nichols (b. 1894, d. La Canada Ca., 1980s); Stanley Nichold (b. Jly 30, 1896, d. Sept. 6, 1905, possibly due to a horse accident); and Fred Rutledge's mother, Leah Nichols, b. 1900 in Clovis Ca., d. Fresno, Feb. 22, 1956.
Below is a picture of Grandma Scholfeld, Fred Rutledge's grandmother.
Below is yet another picture of Grandma Scholfeld with Fred Rutledge's mother, Leah (Leah Nichols).
This is the earliest picture I have of the Nichols children; the second from the Left is Leah, and the picture dates to 1906. Based on Fred Rutledge's information, one of the girls is certainly not a Nichols, since there is only one other girl in the faimly, three years older than Leah. Possibly she is a cousin. It is also difficult to imagine that the boy is a sibling, but rather a cousin, since Leah's brothers all were born a good six or more years before her.
This is Leah Nichols in 1908.
This is Guy Rutledge, son of John Brown Rutledge (see above photo). Guy Rutledge's mother was Nancy Mouser, b. in Indiana or Iowa in 1849, d. Fresno in 1934. Guy Rutledge was their only son; he was b. in Hanford Ca., Feb. 2, 1888, and d. in June of 1949. The picture below shows Guy in his WWI dress uniform in 1918 at the age of 30.
Guy Rutledge on the left with a friend in England during WWI.
Guy Rutledge was a survivor of the first incident of mass casualties for Americans in the First World War when the troop transport he was on, the Tuscania (click on the link for more information about the history of this episode), was torpedoed by a German U-boat. The telegram below indicates that he was safely rescued from the disaster.
Once safely in Britain they put on a show for the survivors. Below is a copy of the program that Guy Rutledge kept.
King George V sent a letter to his regiment, the 158th aerosquadron, congratulating them on their deliverance.
King George also reviewed the regiment's troops. The man in the front is the king; Guy Rutledge is barely visible in the front row. Count to the eighth soldier down on the front row.
Below, Guy Rutledge receives a medal for service.
A picture of the fighting 158th - Guy Rutledge is kneeling, 2nd from the right on the bottom row.
Below is the obituary of C.L. Nichols, Leah's father, from some years before.
This is Leah Nichols sometime between 1918 and 1920. By the time Guy Rutledge married Leah he had already been married and divorced once (to a Ms. Kendall). From that marriage Fred M. Rutledge had a half sister, Phyllis Mulcahy, who d. in Fresno in the 1980s.
Leah Nichols and Guy Rutledge, Fred M. Rutledge's parents, in 1920.
If you have further information concerning these individuals, or want me to add images, please contact me via email.
Below is yet another picture of Grandma Scholfeld with Fred Rutledge's mother, Leah (Leah Nichols).
This is the earliest picture I have of the Nichols children; the second from the Left is Leah, and the picture dates to 1906. Based on Fred Rutledge's information, one of the girls is certainly not a Nichols, since there is only one other girl in the faimly, three years older than Leah. Possibly she is a cousin. It is also difficult to imagine that the boy is a sibling, but rather a cousin, since Leah's brothers all were born a good six or more years before her.
This is Leah Nichols in 1908.
This is Guy Rutledge, son of John Brown Rutledge (see above photo). Guy Rutledge's mother was Nancy Mouser, b. in Indiana or Iowa in 1849, d. Fresno in 1934. Guy Rutledge was their only son; he was b. in Hanford Ca., Feb. 2, 1888, and d. in June of 1949. The picture below shows Guy in his WWI dress uniform in 1918 at the age of 30.
Guy Rutledge on the left with a friend in England during WWI.
Guy Rutledge was a survivor of the first incident of mass casualties for Americans in the First World War when the troop transport he was on, the Tuscania (click on the link for more information about the history of this episode), was torpedoed by a German U-boat. The telegram below indicates that he was safely rescued from the disaster.
Once safely in Britain they put on a show for the survivors. Below is a copy of the program that Guy Rutledge kept.
King George V sent a letter to his regiment, the 158th aerosquadron, congratulating them on their deliverance.
King George also reviewed the regiment's troops. The man in the front is the king; Guy Rutledge is barely visible in the front row. Count to the eighth soldier down on the front row.
Below, Guy Rutledge receives a medal for service.
A picture of the fighting 158th - Guy Rutledge is kneeling, 2nd from the right on the bottom row.
Below is the obituary of C.L. Nichols, Leah's father, from some years before.
This is Leah Nichols sometime between 1918 and 1920. By the time Guy Rutledge married Leah he had already been married and divorced once (to a Ms. Kendall). From that marriage Fred M. Rutledge had a half sister, Phyllis Mulcahy, who d. in Fresno in the 1980s.
Leah Nichols and Guy Rutledge, Fred M. Rutledge's parents, in 1920.
If you have further information concerning these individuals, or want me to add images, please contact me via email.
Steve
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