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Ellen Leeds Sturges – Obituary

STURGES Ellen Read Leeds Sturges died Tuesday, February 8, after a seven year illness with cancer. She was 71 and a life-long resident of Southport. Ellen was an accomplished and artistic interior decorator, antique enthusiast, (horticulturist, group singer, skier, hiker … Continue reading

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Article about Ellen Leeds Sturges

By STEVE GRANT; Courant Staff Writer, March 10, 2005 David Sturges was walking through the exhibits at the Connecticut Spring Antiques Show last year when he happened upon a cluster of 19th-century portraits. It was a family, and the portrait … Continue reading

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Restmore Home – National Registry

FAIRFIELD — Ellen Leeds Sturges had been getting the phone calls, and hearing the helicopters and planes flying overhead, surveying the 5.5 acres her family homestead occupies on Warner Hill Road. They wanted it — bad. But Sturges, who grew … Continue reading

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Crayon Portraits 1840 – 1885

We just finished making copies of Pam’s Great Grandmother Martha Roper -born May 9, 1866 the portrait was supplied by cousin Brenda Clowers. The portrait seems to a crayon portrait which was the largest class of prints from the 1840 … Continue reading

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