Our Tall Ancestor

The unknowns, but to me the woman on the right looks like Ada Fraser below.

Jimmy, Ada, Miller and Hugh Fraser - Carmel CA, Labor Day, 1927.

As everyone knows, the Internet can be distracting. Earlier this week I was working on identifying people from Gussie's notebooks. These were pictures from 1907 that for some reason were unidentified.  Looking at one I thought it looked like the Frasers. Betsy Sharpe Walker's sister Roseanna married Hugh Fraser and some time during the first decade of the 1900s moved to California.



It would be more definite to me, if both pictures had three men instead of one having two and one three. But back to my Internet distraction. Searching through Ancestry.com, I found that the 1940 census record identified Ada's daughter Kaetherine, as an artist who worked as a cartoonist in California. (One record indicated that she had sailed from Yokohama Japan and sailed into Liverpool, September 1939. For another aside Liverpool was the port her mother Roseanna and the other Sharpes had departed 70 years earlier. She returned to America via New York in October 1939.) I thought maybe her Kaetherine's daughter might be alive, but that came up empty. Then I realized that maybe Kaetherine had had an artistic career that might be of note. I googled Kaetherine Sumner Einfeldt and up came Kae Sumner Einfeldt with her own page in Wikipedia.

Her claim to fame is she formed the first modern tall club, The California Tip Toppers Club. It eventually grew into a world wide organization. You can read the rest by following this link, but it goes on to say she worked on the Disney's Snow White, painting the dwarfs.  Kae Sumner Einfeldt Wikipedia.

This second link expands on women like Kae who worked for Walt Disney on his cartoons in the 1930s and 1940s.
Vanity Fair article describing the work of the painters at Disney

So drink a toast to our second cousin, once removed. Cheers, Kae! I'll watch the dwarfs in Snow White with more interest now.