Duffield/Sisson Postcards No. 15

This is the fifteenth in a series of postcards from 1908-1914 discovered last year in the Sierra Madre, California home of Warren Brown after his death. The collection of memorabilia was saved by his grandparents and passed down to Warren, my husband’s cousin.

Warren’s mother, Edythe Grace Sisson (1897-1978), was the daughter of Edith Amy Duffield (1864-1926) and Charles Herman Sisson (1868-1927). Charles and Edith were married in Ottawa, Illinois in 1895. They remained there until the early 1920s when they moved west to Los Angeles, California.

Driveway Douglas Park, Chicago, Ill.

This postcard is the first in the series that wasn't mailed, but I'm including it with the postmarked cards because it includes a date and place.

Downers Grove

August 23, 1909

Dear Edith

I received a letters from Emma say 

Miss Young to move in new home 

that will be nice 

I have been sick or I would write to befor

from your Auntie

JWC

Jane Wright (Duffield) Cross (1850-1932) was the daughter of Robert Duffield (1810-1885) and Mary Wright (1812-1875) and youngest sister of Edith's father, William Duffield (1833-1925). The Emma mentioned in the note is Jane's daughter. Jane lived in Downer's Grove for at least 30 years. Her husband Alfred died before the 1910 census and may have already passed when Jane wrote this note to her niece.