Roswell - Carrizozo Passenger/Mail Coach

Chaves County Home

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My mother's Snell family settled in Nogal in the early 1900s. My Aunt Olive married, died and lived most of her adult life in Roswell (Chaves County, New Mexico). She never had children, so her personal effects were given to family members. My mother sent me some of the items. One of the items was a roll of Kodak film for a Kodak box camera. The film had never been developed, so I took this 40-50 year old film to my local Wal-Mart to have it developed. The pictures came out beautifully.

I thought one of your genealogy libraries might be interested in the photo. It is a photo of the old Roswell to Carrizozo Passenger and Mail Coach. The woman in the film is my aunt, Olive Snell Porter, and the gent is her husband, Uncle Jim Porter, driver of the coach. I don't have a date on this photo, but I think it was taken in the early 1930s, give or take a year or two. Someone may be able to date it better with more knowledge of the make and model of the coach.

Louise Wiles