Here, Samuel H. Vick‘s father Daniel Vick is seated in front of a living screen of fig leaves. The girl standing beside him is likely one of his granddaughters — Annie or Nettie Jones, whose mother Nettie Vick Jones had been murdered by their father A. Wilson Jones in 1897. Daniel Vick died in 1908, and this photo likely was taken shortly before then.

Vick is holding a photograph that appears to depict a young girl. Was she the girl’s sister? Both girls — and their brother Samuel Henry Jones — outlived their grandfather, but Annie and Nettie have not been traced into adulthood.

Photo courtesy of Vicki Cowan.