Potter Family Photograph

This photograph of the extended Potter family dates to about 1890. Seated front and center is the matriarch, "Grandmother Potter". Elizabeth Potter was born 1/6/1794 in Cranley Sussex County, England. Following the death of her husband she and her six children, Jane, John, Susan, Ellen, Caleb, and Alfred emigrated from Sussex, England to the United States ca. 1854. The family purchased a farm in Flint, Ohio ca. 1856.


Family members pictured are; (front row l-r) Harriet Gardner Potter (b. 1824, d. 1910), Jane Potter (b. 1822, d. 1921), Elizabeth Potter (b. 1794, d. 1894), Susan Potter Impett (b. 1827), and Ellen Potter Gardner (b. 1829, d. 1918); (second row l-r) John Potter (b. 1824, d. 1908), Ada Case (b. 1863), Emily Potter (b. 1826, d. 1923), Jennie Ellis, Lucy Potter (b. 1834, d. 1896), Caleb Potter (b. 1831, d. 1911), Thomas Impett (b. 1831), and "Leon" Leonidas Gardner (b. 1853); (third row l-r) Delia Case Potter (b. 1851, d. 1922), Alfred Potter (b. 1838, d. 1926), Edith Gardner (b. 1867), Lizzie Gardner Butler (b. 1864), Ernest Butler (b. 1887, d. 1951), William Butler (d. 1931), and Bessie Impett (b. 1864).


Relations of family members are as follows; Elizabeth was the mother of Jane, John, Susan, Ellen, Caleb, and Alfred; John Potter and Harriet Gardner Potter were husband and wife, Emily Potter was their daughter; Thomas Impett and Susan Potter Impett were husband and wife, Bessie Impett was their daughter; Leonidas Gardner and Ellen Potter Gardner were husband and wife, Edith Gardner and Lizzie Gardner Butler were their daughters; William Butler and Lizzie Gardner Butler were husband and wife, Ernest Butler was their son (became Post Office supervisor in adulthood); Caleb Potter and Lucy Potter were husband and wife; Alfred Potter and Delia Case Potter were husband and wife, Ada Case was Delia's sister; Jennie Ellis was a cousin from England.