This picture was a draft in my WordPress account titled “Picture of the Day – September 26, 2015.” When I had the idea of sharing this image nearly ten years ago, perhaps I knew who these two people were, but by January 2025, this information was not in my brain. Fortunately, Aunt Mary Catherine Sanders is always willing to share her Witt family knowledge. She replied to a Facebook post:

“The picture is of Eda Witt and her husband, Leo or Leon Lucas. She was the daughter of Mary Elizabeth and Joseph Witt. They took over the grocery store on Ford Avenue as Joe Witt aged. The picture was in their garden. They had no children.“

Eda was my grandfather Howard Witt’s aunt and the oldest sister of my great grandfather, Francis Witt.

Sources:

Eda Witt Lucas and Leo Lucas, photograph, likely taken in the 1940s in their garden at 413 Ford Avenue, Youngstown, Ohio; image taken by unknown photographer; privately held by Joseph Lowry, [address for private use], Sterling, VA. Provenance is Mary Catherine Witt Sanders to Joseph Lowry.

Matt Sanders, personal page, Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/matt.sanders.583/posts/10228231619949915 : accessed 25 Jan 2025), “Posts,” 9 February 2024.