Sherrieb Family Album

Collection — Box: A31

Identifier: MGC-1164

Scope and Contents

The photo album is a green, hardbound album with flowers and a cameo decorating the front and velvet on the back cover. It has a decorative metal clasp. The album pages have slots for photographs. Some of the photographs are labeled using a labeler and others have penciled names on the album pages. Many of the photographs have been pasted into the album. The oldest photographs are tintypes of Enos and Gertrude when they are very young. A note taped inside the front of the album states: “This album was presented to Miss Gertrude Wentz of Elgin Ohio Dec 25 1898 by Enos M. Sherrieb of Mahoning Penn.” Inside the album is a letter with some genealogical information as well as sheets of paper with family names and dates recorded. Other items kept in the album are a lock of hair from Gertrude, Enos and Gertrude’s marriage license, some newspaper clippings, and funeral programs. The loose items have been removed from the album and put into an acid free folder.

Dates

Creation: 1870s-1979

Creator

Sherrieb, Vivian Gertrude Wentz, 1880-1950 (Person)

Biographical / Historical

Enos M Sherrieb (4 Nov 1872- 30 Jan 1955) lived in Western Pennsylvania and delivered some horses to his uncle at Spencerville, Ohio. Later, his uncle employed Enos to work in the oil fields and he found room and board at the home of the Wentz family. There he met his future wife, Vivian Gertrude Wentz (27 Oct 1880- 16 Oct 1950). They were married on April 11, 1899 and lived on a farm in Ohio until February 1910. The family moved to a farm near Friona, Texas. The couple had two sons, Harry and Clyde.