Way back in 2018, I shared this inscription on the back of a photograph taken in the early 1900s and given to Minnie Mae (Williams) Horne, my husband’s great grandmother.

Minnie married (2) Charles Horne on 2 October 1904 in Paris, Lamar, Texas, so the photo had to have been taken not long after that, based on the style of photo and the clothes worn by the family.

Even with the enlarged inscription above, the handwriting is poor. However, I have come to the conclusion that it says:

B.I. Hullentr (with the second L crossed instead of the T) or Hultentr with the cross missing from the T
to Minnie Horme
Pictur

Clearly, the person writing this didn’t have the benefit of much education.

However, Benjamin Ivey Hullender‘s wife, who I wrote about recently, was Louella Junnie Williams, the older sister of Minnie and the Hullenders had left Texas and gone back to North Carolina, where Ben was from.

The Hullenders had a daughter born in 1901 and then three boys born in 1907, 1910 and 1913 and would place the year c1920.

Ben was quite a bit older than Junnie, born in 1863 compared to her 1875 and he died in 1922 in Cleveland County, North Carolina.

That would certainly explain the family in front of their home and the importance to Minnie for keeping this photo, which her son inherited when she died in 1945.

I think the clues fit this family.

Readers, what do you think? B.I. Hullender, misspelled?