This is one of my favorite images of all time. It shows, circa 1900, the Gillett family during hop-harvest time. This was a rented farm, in the Middlefield/Roseboom area of Otsego Co., New York. Not too far from Cooperstown.
In the front row on either end, are my great great grandparents... Irene Isabelle Cossart Gillett (1845-1918) and Orvill Claudius Gillett (1838-1912).
In the back row, far left is their son, John L. Gillett (1874-1924) with his wife, Anna McMorris Gillett (1877-1952) and daughter, Irene Gillett (1898-1952).
In the front row, fourth and fifth from the right, is Orvill and Irene's son, Herbert Gillett (1863-1928) and wife, Clara Ellington (or Ellingham?) Gillett (1851-1925).
Next to Clara, or perhaps to Orvill, is Orvill's first cousin, Russell Gillett (1841-abt. 1912).
The little boy in the back row, in the bibs next to his cousin, Irene, is my grandfather, Orville C. Gillett (1891-1983).
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