This is the mother from the "Ritter Family" picture. My only clue to when the picture might have been taken is that she died in 1898. She looks old in this picture, except that her hair doesn't look gray. She lived to be 79. She was a pioneer; she and her husband crossed the prairies from Indiana to Oregon in the 1840's, and with four small children with them. Their youngest child, Amanda, was the only one to be born in Oregon.

She's looking solemn for the camera, but I see a glint of good humour there, all the same.