c1904 RPPC with Photograph of young Ralph K. Oxton (1903-1986), then of Boston, Massachusetts

Real Photo Postcard: young Ralph Keller Oxton (1903-1986).  Some records show Ralph's middle name as Keeler.

Ralph was born in Boston, Massachusetts, on 21 November 1903, the son of Edward Augustus Oxton and Tillie May (Burkett) Oxton, natives of Camden, Maine, and Thomaston, Maine, respectively.

The postcard is addressed to Ralph's paternal uncle and wife, Charles I. Oxton and Flora May (Heaward) Oxton of South Hope, Maine.

On 19 June 1926, Ralph married Alice A. Gordon, daughter of John H. Gordon and Bessie M. (Day) Gordon of Haverhill, Massachusetts. Ralph and Alice lived in the Boston area, where Ralph worked in the office and in sales at a laundry. He died in Florida in 1986.

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c1910 Postcard, Getting Ready for Sideshow, Eastport, Maine - addressed to Laura B. Hutchinson, Bethel, Maine

Real photo postcard of a scene most likely at Eastport, Maine. Someone wrote on the reverse "Getting Ready for Sideshow".

The card was addressed by Uncle Fred to Miss Laura B. Hutchinson at Bethel, Maine but was not sent through the mails.



From online research, hopefully correct - corrections and additions requested:

Laura Beatrice Hutchinson was born 8 June 1901 at Mason, Maine, the daughter of Ervin L. and Charlotte Augusta "Lottie" (Mills) Hutchinson.   Mason, near Bethel, Maine, was dissolved in 1935 and is now called Mason Township.

On 26 May 1939, Laura married Harland J. Shaw of Paris, Maine. He was born about 1905, the son of Mark and Lois H. (Knight) Shaw.   Harland died in 1969, and Laura 1987.   They're buried in the Riverside Cemetery at Bethel, Maine.

I've been unable to find the identity of Uncle Fred. I've checked for siblings of parents and grandparents but am not sure I've found all of them. And there's a possibility that "Uncle" was an honorific.

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Sources

Maine Vital Records, 1670-1921 - birth of Laura Beatrice Hutchinson  

Maine Vital Records, 1670-1921 - birth of a Shaw boy on January 27, 1906

Maine, Marriage Index, 1892-1966, 1977-1996 - marriage of Laura Beatrice Hutchinson and Harland J. Shaw