The subjects in today’s photos are sisters Edith and Ethel Strout from Belfast, Waldo, Maine plus a bonus photo of little Ethel.

Edith and Ethel were the daughters of Parish Lovejoy Strout, a Civil War veteran, and Wilda Frances Moore, who married c1880.

Children:

1. Edith L., born 15 November 1882, Belfast, Waldo, Maine; died 30 March 1976. Belfast, Waldo, Maine; married William Vaughan, 25 June 1923, Belfast, Waldo, Maine. Her occupation was schoolteacher. William and Edith had no children.
2. Ethel Mae, born 27 April 1884, Maine; died 30 November 1907, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts of a ruptured gall bladder and peritonitis; married Lewis W. Ricker, 21 October 1903, Belfast, Waldo, Maine. Lewis married (2) Bessie F. Pol, 26 May 1908, Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts.

Lewis and Ethel were the parents of one son.

Child:

1. Lt. Col. Sherman Maine Ricker, born 3 September 1904; died 30 August 1990; married Victoria E. Sosule, Woodstock, Carleton, New Brunswick, Canada.

Sherman and Victoria were the parents of one daughter.

Child:

1. Elizabeth Jane, born 4 November 1933, Maine; died 28 September 2015, Maine; married Clayton E. Steward, 1 March 1959.

Clayton and Elizabeth have descendants and the cute photos of their great grandmother and her sister are going home to one of them.