This is a very nice portrait of two sisters, l. to r. Saphronia Rachel and Laura Elizabeth Davis. The original gives us no indication of the date of the photo or the occasion of it being taken. Our best guess would be that the photo was taken in Davis, Chickasaw Nation, Indian Territory in the 1890s.
This picture provides us an interesting link between other pictures of the family which may contain Saphronia. This picture is believed to prove that the one elsewhere in our photo collection of an unidentified woman standing to the left of our Lucy and her son, Bernace, Roberson, is that of this sister, Saphronia. As for Laura, her photos seem more consistently to contain the same likeness. Laura appears to have been quite a nice looking lady in her youth.
Author: Roger L. Roberson, Jr. • Last updated: 11 January 2003