Duffield/Sisson Postcards No. 22

This is 22/100 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.

WEDRON ILL

FOX RIVER

Postmarked 21 Oct 1909? in Wedron, Illinois

Addressed to

Mrs. Chas. Sisson.

Marcy St.

Ottawa.

Ill.

Have a swell time hunting eggs.

Carrie

I think this is the same "Carrie" that sent card #20 and in that one she addressed the card "Dear Friend". I still don't know anything more about who she might be. The reference to "hunting eggs" must be an inside joke, since it's October and not early Spring. I don't have a clue!

This card is interesting in that it appears to be just a reprint of a photograph, with no colorization or touch-up other than the added text. Old photographs from this time period often have the same type of writing on them. There isn't any publisher information anywhere on the postcard, so it probably was produced locally.

Until I saw this card I had never heard of the city of Wedron. A quick Wikipedia search gave a bit of info. It's a small unincorporated community, also in LaSalle County. It's a little bit north of Ottawa and sits along the Fox River.