Friday's Photo: A trip to George Washington's Mount Vernon in 1939

This photo of Lillie Mae Trott Scott Murphey and her daughter, Mary Beth Scott, came from the Frye family collection. [1]

George Washington's Mount Vernon is the historic home of George and Martha Washington, located on the banks of the Potomac River in Fairfax County, Virginia about 13 miles south of Washington, DC. [2]

“Murphy-Scott,” The Bienville

Democrat,  27 Feb. 1936, p.6, col. 5;

database and images, The Digital 

Archives of The Bienville Parish 

Library (http://bienville.advantage-

preservation.com : accessed 

27 August 2021).

Lillie Mae Trott was the daughter of William Jackson Trott and Lula Laura Cook of Bienville Parish, Louisiana. 

Lillie Mae first married Herbert B. Scott father of Mary Beth and in 1936 married William Wayne Murphey. [3]

This photo was developed in September 1939 and it is suspected that it was taken just prior to the family leaving for the Philippine Islands where Lt. Colonel Murphey was stationed just before the war. [4]

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Diana

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    1. Lillie Mae Trott Murphy and Mary Beth Scott at Mount Vernon, photograph, n.d.; scanned image, from the privately held photo collection of the Frye Family, San Francisco, 2019.

    2. "Meet the Fairfaxes, George Washington's Neighbors," George Washington's Mount Vernon (https://www.mountvernon.org/george-washington/george-washingtons-neighbors : accessed 30 November 2021).

    3. Vera Meeks Wimberly, Wimberly Family History, Ancestors, Relatives, and Descendants of William Wimberly, Pioneer from Georgia to Louisiana 1837 (Houston Texas: D. Anderson, 1979), 350-351.

    4. “Army Life of Pre-War Philippines Was Familiar to Mrs. William B. Allen,” Corpus Christi Times (Corpus Christi, Texas), 27 April 1946, p.4-C; database and images, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/image/?clipping_id=90277215&fcfToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJmcmVlLXZpZXctaWQiOjc1NzcwNzg5OSwiaWF0IjoxNjM5MTY4NjQ0LCJleHAiOjE2MzkyNTUwNDR9.jLhw5UncfmAXKVhxSpAzCzZ-koqgF0RUkx6sUD2QpF8 : accessed 8 Dec. 2021).