Friday's Photo: Using Related Faces to Identify Young Girls in Seymour, Texas

Last Friday, I posted Friday's Photo: A Confirmation from Related Faces. I looking at pairings in Related Faces. This week, I examined the below photo and attempted to identify a few of the girls. I don't have a date for the photo but am fairly certain it was taken in Seymour around 1915. The reason for the photo is unknown. 

This is one of two photos with the same photographer's background. The other group photo, young girls in a Woodsmen Circle, can be seen at the bottom of this post. 

My cousin told me years ago that my Aunt DeRay Bryan is the young girl in the middle of the front row, the girl to her right was my Aunt Marie Bryan, and the tallest girl in the back was my father's first cousin, Millard Ray Latta. This was information my cousin remembered being told 20+ years prior. So, with access to Related Faces, I decided to look a little harder. 

She was correct about Millard Ray Latta labeled BC3 above. BC3's paired with the four photos on the left. The first, third, and fourth photos were all known images of Millard Ray. The second photo, with a 95.08 resemblance score, was an unknown image of a woman holding a baby. I never thought that I would identify her as her hair or a hat appeared to be covering her eyes. However, enlarging the photo and comparing it to other photos of Millard Ray shows me that I have found the woman's identity.                               

The young girl BC2 is my father's sister, DeRay Bryan. This young girl paired with six known images of DeRay, and all but one showed resemblance scores in the 90s. She had one pairing with DeRay's sister Marie with a resemblance score of 66.25, indicating a family resemblance. 

Marie, three years older than DeRay, was not so easily identified. My cousin wrote that Marie was on DeRay's right (BC1), but that girl was as small or maybe smaller than DeRay and didn't look like any of Marie's childhood photos. 

Three girls in the photo paired with girls in another group photo from Seymour, but none were Aunt Marie. 

Members of a Woodmen Circle

Photos of Marie Bryan paired with one of the members (Marie) of the Woodsmen Circle

Unknown young women in the first photo are paired with those in the Woodmen Circle photo. 

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Diana

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