Recovered Solomon/Turber family-history source — October 24–26, 2011.
Danielle sent Tim Turber a large scan of the family-history material she had assembled and asked what he thought. The surviving attachment is a 64-page PDF, SHARESCAN10_EXCHANGE_10242011-110241.PDF.
What Danielle sent
The 64-page scan is essentially a complete backup copy of the professional James L. Solomon research packet prepared by ProGenealogists in June 2011. It includes the June 8, 2011 research report, pedigree and family-group sheets, the research calendar, census and vital-record copies, obituary/death-certificate material, cemetery/search pages, and supporting source records.
The report states that researchers had identified the correct James L. Solomon, traced him as a child in his parents’ household, documented his Richmond, Indiana years, verified the births and deaths of the two infant children believed to have been born to James and AraBelle, and discovered that Turber was Vera’s married name rather than her maiden name. It also identified William Timothy Turber as Vera’s son from a first marriage.
Tim clarifies his family
In the same correspondence, Tim directly identified his parents: his mother was Vera Mae Kimbrough and his father was Fred William Turber, both from Princeton, Indiana. He told Danielle he would scan photographs of Jim.
What Tim sent back
On October 26 Tim replied, “Here is some more stuff,” and sent nine small scanned PDFs. Together they preserve a James L. Solomon photo/clipping set that includes:
- A July 24, 1973 Richmond, Indiana newspaper clipping naming James L. Solomon “Realtor of the Year” by the Richmond Board of Realtors.
- A newspaper photograph of Masonic lodge officers.
- A February 28, 1967 Richmond newspaper article, “First Payment Made For New Uniforms For School’s Band,” with Jim Solomon among the people pictured and named.
- A formal portrait of James L. Solomon.
- Several fishing/outdoor photographs of James.
- A family/event group photograph.
- A family snapshot with an infant.
- A July 1961 Holiday Inn group photograph; Tim labeled the source file “jim (I’m in this one)”, establishing that he appears in that image.
Tim’s last reply to Danielle was simple: “The mother lode.”
This source set should remain connected as a single Solomon/Turber recovery group. The professional research packet overlaps the June 2011 research findings already parked elsewhere; Tim’s nine returned scans are the new visual/provenance material in this exchange.
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