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Note: 1898 -198x
Her mother Minnie Arendal was terminal after a severe burning in 1898,and before her death Minnie asked her sister-in-law Letha Ann StocktonFariss to please take in the 6-week-old infant Aminda Stockton. LethaAnn said "Yes" even before asking Ira Jones Fariss. She later went outinto the yard to ask him, and he said "Of course."
Aminda Minnie was thus brought up in a stable family environment.
Aminda's brother Thomas Murray Stockton was the only other one who hada fairly regular home, with Minnie Arendal's relatives, the Peeblesfamily in Lexington.
The three other girls were shifted around from pillar to post amongother families, without a regular long-term family life.
At the death of her foster mother Annie Stockton Fariss in 1951,Minnie Stockton Elledge DID load into her station wagons the studioportraits of Augustine Partnership Stockton and Elvira Knox, becauseAugusta Fariss helped her with the loading.
Some years later, Jane Elledge Newkirk told Augusta that she did nothave the portraits. No one of the Elledge family in 1998 knows anythingabout the portrait.
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