1898c,Evelyn Ryan's parents near the time of their marriage. Orren was a schoolteacher and Minnie, a dressmaker. The Evelyn Ryan archive contains a ledger detailing the family finances during the early years of their marriage. 1905c,Lyrl Lehman in the photo studio in Sherwood, Ohio. Lyrl was Josephine Etchie’s daughter and Evelyn Ryan’s stepmother. 1913,Enid Lehman, age 5, and Evelyn, 9 months. When this photo was taken, Enid was living with her grandparents, Mary and George Lehman, on their farm on Buckskin Road, and Evelyn was living with her Aunt Clara Coughanour in Hicksville, Ohio. 1913c,Enid Lehman with her dolls at the Lehman farm on Buckskin Road, rural Defiance. 1915c,Evelyn Ryan writes on the back of this photo, “Evelyn Lehman, about 2 years, 1st prizewinner in baby contest at Hicksville, Ohio.” 1916,Evelyn Lehman, Clara Moninger Coughanour, Faith Coughanour. Clara, Evelyn's aunt, raised Evelyn for three years from the time of her mother's death to her father's remarriage. Faith is Clara and Frank Coughanour's daughter. 1918c,Leo Ryan on his bike on the Ryan farm, Defiance, Ohio. Evelyn Ryan wasn’t quite sure of this attribution, asking Tuff to write, “quite possibly Leo Ryan” on the photo. 1920,Home of Orren and Minnie Lehman (and later, Lyrl Lehman), Sherwood, Ohio, where Evelyn and Enid grew up. 1926,Leo (Kelly) Ryan and the orchestra. Leo, with violin in front row; Augusta Kehnast, with saxophone far left, in front of the Dominican convent on Arabella Street, Defiance Ohio. 1931,The entire 1931 graduating class of Sherwood High School, Sherwood, Ohio, Evelyn Ryan, valedictorian. Evelyn was offered a scholarship to Defiance College in 1931 (the coupons for freshman year amounted to $25), but decided to try nursing school instead. 1932c,Evelyn Lehman and friends. Written on front in Evelyn’s hand, “3 miles to go.” The road outside Sherwood, Ohio. The Evelyn Ryan archive contains a newspaper clipping describing this photo. 1933,Evelyn Lenore Lehman. Written on reverse in Evelyn’s hand, “The Editress.” In front of the Sherwood Chronicle offices, where she was a columnist, age 20. 1933,Close-up of 1934 June 16,Evelyn Lehman and friends. Written on front in Evelyn’s hand, ”Keeping a Good Girl Down.” The Evelyn Ryan archive contains a picture scrapbook of Evelyn’s with snapshots and captions like this from her high school years. 1928c,Evelyn Lehman as a teenager. On reverse: “I forgot to comb out my hair.” 1934July,Nellie Bayliss and Evelyn Lehman. Written on front in Evelyn’s hand, “Mugging Party, July 1934.” Nellie was Evelyn’s best friend. They each went on to have 10 kids. 1935,Evelyn Lehman and Leo Ryan before they were married, 1935. 1935c,The happy couple pose a year before their marriage. 1936,Evelyn and Leo on their wedding day, November 26,1936, outside Leo's sister Lucy Moore's house on Lynn Street, Bryan, Ohio. 1936 November 26,Close-up of Evelyn and Leo on their wedding day. 1936 November 26,Evelyn and Leo on their wedding day, November 26, 1936, outside Lucy Moore's house. 1939,Josephine Etchie (1863-1950), publisher/editor of the Sherwood Chronicle, step-grandmother and mentor of Evelyn Ryan, in her yard with her chickens. 1939,Lyrl Lehman, Josephine Etchie’s daughter and Evelyn Ryan’s stepmother, rocking on her front porch in Sherwood, Ohio. 1940c,Clara Coughanour (1865-1956), Minnie Moninger Lehman's sister, who raised Evelyn Ryan until she was 3. Clara was a strong influence on Evelyn, and worked as a cook and housekeeper well into her eighties. 1940c,Lucy Moore at a nightclub in Chicago. During the Prize Winner years, Aunt Lucy took Evelyn and the kids to the store once a week and bought them groceries, and occasionally a toy or a doll for a birthday. Her cheerful generosity kept the family going in more ways than one. 1943,Lea Anne and Dick Ryan,the two oldest Ryan kids, in more solitary days on their tricycles with Leo and Evelyn, Jefferson Street, Defiance, Ohio. 1947,Evelyn Ryan and her first six children, Jefferson Street, Defiance, Ohio: Evelyn, Rog, Terry (Tuff) in arms, Bruce, Dick, Lea Anne, Bub. 1949,Evelyn and her first six children on Latty Street, Defiance, Ohio: Bruce, Bub, Evelyn, Lea Anne, Terry (Tuff), Dick, Rog. 1953,Presentation of the Western Flyer bicycle to Dick from W.F. Clark, Western Auto Regional Manager. The ceremony was held during half-time of a Defiance High School football game. Evelyn, Leo, and Dick are at center. At far right is John Kraber, the Defiance, Ohio Western Auto dealer. 1955,Evelyn Ryan with Dave on the couch at 801 Washington Avenue, Defiance, Ohio--the house bought with the downpayment won in the Western Auto Contest. 1959,Leo Ryan tends the Automatic Screw Machine at Serrick's, a screeching, hot, oily mess of a job that left him exhausted and dispirited. Picture from a full page ad in the Defiance Crescent News, 1959, touting the industries that made Defiance great. Defiance Screw Machine Products (division of the Serrick Corporation) was located on Perry Street in Defiance, Ohio. 1959 August,Evelyn, left rear, and her childhood friends in a rowboat at a friend's lake, rural Ohio. 1961,Radio City Music Hall as photographed by Evelyn Ryan on her Brownie camera during a visit to New York City for her appearance with Bruce on the Merv Griffin Show: part of the first prize in the Beech-Nut Gum “Name that Sandwich” Contest. 1961 July,Posing in front of the Triumph TR-3 sports car Evelyn won in the Beech-Nut Gum Contest: Barb, Betsy, and Dave. Because the car had to be sold for cash, the car was never used, though the older kids used to push it silently back and forth in front of the house and dream. 1965,Evelyn stands next to her new Mustang and holds a bag of money marked $3,440.64, plane tickets to Switzerland, and two gold watches: first prize in the Dr. Pepper “Win the Time of Your Life” Contest. In front of Dr. Pepper headquarters, Dallas, Texas. 1965,Evelyn Ryan at the Dr. Pepper headquarters in Dallas, Texas. “That hat flattened my hair for the rest of the trip,” she told us. 1970,The Defiance High School graduate Betsy with a proud Leo in the front lawn of 801 Washington Avenue, Defiance, Ohio. 1970c,Evelyn in her living room at 801 Washington Avenue, Defiance, Ohio, after winning yet another contest. 1972c,Evelyn in her front garden plot, 801 Washington Avenue, Defiance, Ohio. She loved to grow anything. 1983,Tuff takes a picture of Evelyn in front of the elm tree at 801 Washington Avenue, Defiance, after Leo's funeral. 1983 August 4,Close-up of Evelyn after the funeral of her husband taken by Tuff. 1986,Evelyn beams in the Colorado mountains near Denver during a visit to Bruce. 1988c,In a moment of serendipity, Evelyn is captured by a busy postcard photographer leaving the Defiance Public Library with her signature shortened slacks, purse, and probably more than a few books. This postcard was bought in downtown Defiance in 2001 by Connie Andrews and sent to Tuff. 1991,Evelyn Ryan in a Gertrude Stein pose in Colorado. 2005,Studio shot of Woody Harrelson playing Leo (Kelly) Ryan, screw machine operator. Insert: the real Kelly Ryan. Here's to you both. 1996,Evelyn with Tuff on the front stoop of 801 Washington Avenue, Defiance, Ohio. 2005,The spirit of Evelyn (Julianne Moore) with Tuff on the front stoop of the fictional 801 Washington Avenue at the end of the DreamWorks motion picture,