Yes, this blog is still alive! I woke up this morning thinking about all of the people in my home state and others who have lost their family photographs because of Hurricane Helene. I have posted only once this year, but I want to put something out today to acknowledge that tremendous loss.

The three-year-old pictured above is Florence Amoss Dixon (1878-1958). She was the youngest child of Robert Bartlett Dixon (1834-1921) and Sarah Amanda Amoss (1836-1910) and she had three sisters and two brothers. She came from a prominent and well-to-do family, as described in her parents’ obituaries:

In 1910, Florence married Frederick Augustus Levering, Jr. (1879-1948), the son of Frederick Augustus Levering, Sr. (1849-1928) and Catherine Elizabeth Webb (1856-1927). Frederick was a business executive and the family lived at 304 Wendover Road in Baltimore, just a few blocks from I write this. Frederick, Jr.’s uncle, Eugene Levering, Jr. (1845-1828), contributed to the construction of Levering Hall on the Homewood Campus of Johns Hopkins University and it is named after him.

Florence and Fred had one son, Frederick Augustus Levering III (1915-1999) who married Frances Mary Gullion (1919-1999) in 1946. Their son, Frederick Augustus Levering, IV (1949-2016) was memorialized as follows:

I purchased this photograph on from a antique store on West 36th Street in Baltimore on 4 October 2024.