Booksh or Tisdale Photo

Booksh or Tisdale family group, circa 1895

This is my Photo for the second week of the 52 Ancestors Challenge.

Who are these people? The only one I can identify positively is Samuel Walker Booksh, the man in the first row with the handlebar mustache, fourth from the left, and possibly his son Sam Jr., second from the left.

Judging from the women's clothes and hats and the two military uniforms the gathering occurred in about 1895. It could be Booksh family members in New Orleans or Grosse Tete, Louisiana or Tisdale family members in New Orleans, Louisiana, or Mobile, Alabama. The large photo is 8" x 14" and was pasted to a dark cardboard backing. When I copied the photo it was in the possession of my aunt Emma Frances Booksh Sarradet in New Orleans, Louisiana. It is now probably in the possession of her son Steve Sarradet, Jr.

Great Grandpa Samuel Walker Booksh would have been about 42 years old in 1895. His wife Belle Tisdale Booksh, maybe the woman to his right, would have been about 40 years old. Next to her is oldest son Sam Jr., about 14. Sons Leonard, 12, and Wilton, 9, and daughter Belle, 6, are not in the photo.

I have shown the photo to many members of the Booksh and Tisdale extended families but no one had ever seen a copy of the photo or knew which family it was. Does anyone out there recognize it?