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Delana Jane Fowler Brewer in her Hat

September 2, 2010
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Delana Jane Fowler Brewer in her Hat

Original courtesy of Nancy Benton Added some color Ancestor Delana Jane Fowler Brewer, b. 1854, married David Nathaniel Brewer, here has had what must have been a special hat memorialized. The photo was possibly taken about, what–1915?–in Missouri. Perhaps it was a brand spanking new Easter bonnet.
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Ray Noyes Family Photo circa 1921-1922

September 1, 2010
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Ray Noyes Family Photo circa 1921-1922

Ray Noyes family photo courtesy of Nancy Benton This photo, circa 1921-1922, would be from Liberal, Missouri. Nancy Benton supplied the following identification. From left to right: O.E. Harmon; Viola Harmon; Edna Noyes; Jamie Noyes; Paul Noyes; Charles Bryant–Bettie Noyes in front of him...
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Lloyd McKenney as Child

August 31, 2010
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Lloyd McKenney as Child

A beautiful photo from 1909-1910 that shows ancestor Lloyd Clinton McKenney as a child, and a happy one at that. The photo would have been likely taken in Chautauqua County, Kansas, where the family lived. Lloyd was the son of James Albert McKenney and...
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Dorothy Noyes McKenney in the 1940s

August 30, 2010
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Dorothy Noyes McKenney in the 1940s

Courtesy Nancy Benton The frame around the photo reads Elko and I’ve no idea to what that refers, if it is an old photo development place that I’m unable to locate any evidence of in an internet search. It’s a picture that doesn’t say...
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Basketball Team, Liberal, Missouri, 1909

August 30, 2010
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Basketball Team, Liberal, Missouri, 1909

Photoshopped Original The bottom photo is from the late Barbara Irwin’s page on Liberal, Missouri which is no longer available. I worked with it some restoring it, and it happened to come out really well. What we have here is the Liberal High School...
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Please read the about page for information on this site. Main migration routes for some of the families are: for the McKenney line, Harrison, Belmont, Guernsey and Monroe counties Ohio, to Van Buren, Iowa, to Chautauqua County, Kansas and the neighboring Osage Reserve; the Crockett line went through Boone County, Missouri to Chautauqua County, Kansas; the Noyes lines went from the New England states to Michigan (the Alphadelphia Association) and hence to the freethought town of Liberal, Missouri; the Mitchell and Craig lines ended up in the Macon County, Missouri area. My husband's lines are as follows: the Kearns and Crabtree lines were in the Mobile County, Alabama area; and the Hennesy/Simmons/Everidge lines went through Georgia and southern Alabama to Pike County, Mississippi and Washington Parish, Louisiana.