Photograph of Cornelia Gillespie Vest

Basic details

Photograph of Cornelia Gillespie Vest is an image, with genre photograph and portraits.

Its dimensions are 5.88 in. x 3.81 in..

It was created sometime in 1900.

Worthington Historical Society is the contributor.

You can find the original at Worthington Historical Society.

Background

This photograph of Cornelia Gillespie Vest (b. 1857, d. 1931) was taken at Columbus Studio around 1900. She was born in Malta in Morgan County, Ohio. Cornelia Gillespie married Winfield P. Vest in 1877 in Morgan County and lived in Worthington one year later when their first child was born. The two lived at 91 East Granville Road and had one son, Samuel Winfield Vest, who died of diptheria at age 10, and four daughters, Katherine, Caroline, Cornelia and Bertha.

Cornelia Vest died in March 1931 from apoplexy and is buried at Walnut Grove Cemetery.

Subjects

It features the person Cornelia Vest.

It covers the city Worthington.

Record details

This file was reformatted digital in the format video/jpeg.

The Worthington Memory identification code is whs1259.

The Worthington Historical Society identification code is 02-G-261.40.

This metadata record was human prepared by Worthington Libraries on September 24, 2021. It was last updated November 4, 2025.

Copyright

No Copyright - United States

Photograph of Cornelia Gillespie Vest from the collections of the Worthington Historical Society (WHS) may be used for educational purposes as long as it is not altered in any way and proper credit is given: "Courtesy of the Worthington Historical Society, Worthington, OH." Prior written permission of the WHS is required for any other use of Photograph of Cornelia Gillespie Vest. Contact WHS at info@worthingtonhistory.org to request permission.