6th plate daguerreotype of a little girl, identified by a period note as Abigail Adam Miller Tharp. Online info shows finds that she was born on March 2, 1840 in Guyandotte, West Virginia, and died in 1928 in Kansas. Her bio states that she moved to Illinois at the age fo 10, but she doesn't look quite 10 years old in this photo, so I believe it was probably taken by a West Virginia photographer ..... See below for a longer bio.
Included with the dag in the case behind the image are the note and a long lock of braided hair.
Dag is unsealed with tarnish. There appears to be a very light swipe in the background to her left, but no heavy damage.
Cherokee Sentinel, Friday, Dec. 28, 1928, page 1:
Death of Mrs. Abigail Tharp
Mrs. Abbie Tharp passed away at the home of her daughter, Mrs. O.H. Curry on Monday morning after a few days illness of the influenza. She has been frail for some time, and her advanced age was against her. Funeral services were held at the Curry home Wednesday afternoon conducted by Rev. H.J. Sterling of the M.E. Church. Burial was made in the city cemetery.
Abigail Adam Miller was born on March 2nd, 1840 in Guyandotte, Cabell county, West Virginia. She died on December 24, 1928, at the home of her daughter, Mrs. H.O. Curry at the age of 88 years, 9 months and ?2(blurry) days.
At the age of ten years she moved with her parents to Knox county, Ill. She joined the Methodist church at the age of 12 years. At the age of 20 she was married to Isaac Tharp to which union nine children were born, eight still living, one dying in infancy. They came to Kansas in 1868(blurry) and have lived in Cherokee and Crawford counties continuously since that time. She has lived a real Christian life, was a regular attendant and active worker in the church as long as she was able to go. Her husband died 45 years ago. The surviving children are Mary Bumgarner and Will Tharp of Pittsburg, Walter Tharp of Ponca City, Okla., George, Frank, John and Fred Tharp and (blurry) Curry of Cherokee; twenty-six grandchildren and fifteen great-grandchildren.
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