Mrs. Charles R. Morehead, 1891

1891, Mrs. C.R.Morehead, El Paso, Texas
Theo C. Marceau, fotographer,
826 Market St. Phelan Building
San Franciso, CAL

In keeping with yesterday's theme I'm posting a picture that may or may not be Mrs. Charles Robert Morehead, aka Lemire Morris Morehead.  The back of the photo is stamped  "C.R. Morehead, El Paso Texas" and "Mrs" is written in pen before the stamp. It is also annotated "1891."  So does that mean the picture is of Lemire Morehead or did she stamp the photograph to show ownership?  I've written about Charles and Lemire back in 2012.  You can see a picture of her as a young woman in that blog post.  I know she was living in Los Angeles during the later part of her life and that's where she died in 1910.  

This 1891 picture was in a group of several other pictures including the one marked "Cousin Turner to Cousin Fannie."   It's interesting to note that Lemire and Charles named their daughters Ida and Fanny.  We're certain that John W. Moran and Sophia Gunn Moran named two of their daughters after the Moreheads.   Fannie Lemira Moran was most likely a nod to Lemire Morris Morehead as well as Lemire's daughter Fanny and their other daughter was named Ida Morehead Moran and most definitely was named after Charles and Lemire's daughter, Ida Morehead!

Theo C. Marceau was a well known San Francisco photographer.  The following comes from The San Francisco News Letter, July-Dec. 1896:

A WELL-KNOWN NAME. 



The signature at the foot of these lines has become a 

household word in San Francisco. Photography, as 

there are few cities in the world that can beat us at it. 

practiced here, has indeed become one of the arts, and 

course, but patient study and care in every detail has 

Our atmosphere may have something to do with it, of 

achieved more than anything else. Theo. C. Marceau, 

Phelan Building, can improve upon nature in his photo- 

whose beautiful studio is at 826 Market street, in the 
graphs, and when one considers how handsome our women 

especially, find satisfaction in posing before his cameras. 
are, that is saying a great deal. A single glance at some 
of his work will suffice to prove what we say. Ladies, 

the person, divine their moods, and know how to catch 
One must be an artist to know how one will look at one's 
best; one must be able, as it were, to fathom the nature of 

work done is perfect. All the latest styles of photography 
them upon the plate that will hold them forever. This 
Mr. Marceau does, and he is surrounded by such efficient 
assistants in every department that every detail of the 

absolutely lifelike. Considering the quality of his work, 
can be had in his studio. His color work is simply beauti- 
ful, and adds something to his pictures that makes them 
his prices are very low, reputation, in his case, bringing 

him all the patrons he can desire. 

Francis (Fanny) Ann Morehead, 1838-1859, Missouri

Fanny Morehead Belles
1838-1859

Fanny Ann Morehead was the daughter of Charles Robert Morehead (1800-1880) and Francis Fannie Warder (1804-1843).  Her father, Charles Robert Morehead was the brother of Caroline Morehead, the wife of Lyman Taft Gunn.  Their daughter Sophia Riley Gunn married John Williamson Moran and that is the family connection to the Morans. Fanny Morehead is also one of the many grandchildren of Turner Morehead.  In addition, Charles Robert Morehead wrote a history of the Morehead family.

Fanny Morehead married Gill E. Belles October 14, 1858 in Lafayette County, Missouri.  She died July 24, 1859, nine months after the wedding.  It's speculation on my part but I think it's very possible she died in childbirth or had complications with a pregnancy and that she and the child did not survive.    

Gill Belles took a second wife in 1862 named Marinda.  They had four children: Hattie, Fannie (a nod to his first wife?), Eudore, and Tarlton.  Gill died in 1902 and Marinda followed him in 1908.