Abbey Ardelle "Della" Smith (1862-1944) in About 1885 -- (Not So) Wordless Wednesday #858

Abbey Ardelle "Della" Smith (1862-1944) in About 1885 -- (Not So) Wordless Wednesday #858

This is one of the most interesting family photographs I have:This is a tintype photograph in a paper folder of my great-grandmother, Abbey Ardelle "Della" (Smith) Carringer (1862-1944).  I don't know the date of this photograph, but Della looks like she is in her early 20s.  I think the photograph was taken in Concordia, Kansas, which her family left in 1885.  So it may be a photograph from 1885 when she was 23 years old. ChatGPT4 dated the pho…