Sadye Irene Fleming — graduation portrait, c. 1919

Sadye Irene Fleming at eighteen — a soft-focus studio portrait, hair parted center and gathered low, the unsmiling self-presentation of a graduation photograph in 1919. The family-typed caption pasted beneath the print identifies it as her graduation picture, c. 1919 — the year she was about to turn eighteen, the year before she married Earl A. Wildermuth on New Year’s Eve 1920.

This is the earliest photograph of Sadye in the family archive — the before image of the marriage that would produce Robert Earl Wildermuth (Chuck’s grandfather) and four siblings, and that would open the Fleming line into the Wildermuth shoemaker family of Marietta. She is photographed almost exactly two years before she would have her first child.

The portrait sits at the start of the maternal-side ancestry on this site the way the 1899 Eesley family portrait sits at the start of the paternal-side — the first visual anchor of the line.

Source: family collection, supplied with family-typed caption box identifying date and subject.