Friday's Photo: The Tom Maddrey Family

I suspect this Tom Maddrey family photo, from the Frye family collection, was the Thomas Maddry found in the 1900 census enumeration of Claiborne Parish, Louisiana. In 1900, Thomas and Rosa Maddry had five sons, born between 1877 and 1890, and four daughters, born between 1892 and 1900. His eldest two sons were 23 and 20 years of age in 1900. If this is the correct family, then this photo was probably taken in the early 1890s. Daughter Eva, was eight years old in 1900. She could be the baby on her mother's lap in about 1893 or 1894. 

The 1900 census names the children of Thomas and Rosa M. Maddry as William B., Andrew J., Franklin, James T., Rollie H., Eva L., Nellie B., Ida Estelle, and a daughter named as "infant." 

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"United States Census, 1900", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MSPB-181 : Wed Oct 04 02:40:58 UTC 2023), Entry for Thomas Maddry and Rosa M Maddry, 1900.

Tom Maddry Family, photograph, n.d.; scanned image, from the privately held photo collection of the Frye Family, San Francisco, 2019.

Friday's Photo: Winfrey Albert Bryan of Bienville Parish, Louisiana

This is another wonderful photo from the Frye family's collection.[1] Winfrey Albert Bryan was found in the 1900 United States census as Winfrey A. Bryant, the son of William B. Bryant, and Mary O. Bryant of Bienville Parish, Louisiana.[2] In 1942, Winfrey Albert Bryan was living in Bryceland in Bienville and gave his date of birth as 8 January 1881 on his WWII Draft Registration Card.[3] 

Winfrey Albert Bryan is not a descendant of my Reddick Bryan family but of James Monroe Bryan, who is buried in the Mt. Olive Cemetery in Bienville Parish.[4] I have never found a relationship between the two Bryan families, but I am always looking. 

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    1. Winfrey Albert Bryan, photograph, no date; scanned image, from the privately held photo collection of the Frye Family, San Francisco, 2019. Used with permission. 

    2. 1900 U.S. Census, Bienville Parish, Louisiana, population schedule, Ringgold, ward 2,  enumeration district 5, page 13, dwelling 203, family 206, William B. Bryant household; digital images, Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/5894940:7602: accessed 28 September 2022); citing NARA microfilm publication T624, roll 558.

    3. "U.S., World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942," database with images, Ancestry.com (https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/11120235:1002? : accessed 28 September 2022), Winfrey Albert Bryan; citing The National Archives At St. Louis; St. Louis, Missouri; World War II Draft Cards (4th Registration) For the State of Louisiana; Record Group Title: Records of the Selective Service System; Record Group Number: 147.

    4. Public Member Trees, database, Ancestry.com (https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/18587955/person/292195959846/facts : accessed 28 September 2022).

Friday's Photo: Della Southern Lomax

Della Olivia Southern Lomax
1885-1949

This is another photo from the Frye family collection. Della Southern was married to Dallas Daniel Lomax. They are buried in Greenwood Cemetery in Lincoln Parish, Louisiana. According to her memorial at Find a Grave, she was the daughter of Elbert E. Southern and Harriett Pullig who are buried in the Camp Ground Cemetery in Bienville Parish. The name of this child is unknown. 

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Sources 

Della Southern, photograph, n.d.; scanned image, from the privately held photo collection of the Frye Family, San Francisco, 2019.

Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/133687225/della-olivia-lomax: accessed 12 August 2022), memorial page for Della Olivia Southern Lomax (23 Nov 1885–7 Dec 1949), Find a Grave Memorial ID 133687225, citing Greenwood Cemetery, Ruston, Lincoln Parish, Louisiana, USA; Maintained by Wanda Ellenberger (contributor 48431040).

Friday's Photo: Mr. and Mrs. George Frye

The wonderful family photo below was found in the Frye family's collection. On the back is written Mr. & Mrs. George Frye. In Northwest Louisiana, there was a George Washington Frye, born in 1848, who had a son, George Edwin Frye, born in 1873. Could it be this family? These Fryes lived in Claiborne Parish, Louisiana, but I have also seen Fryes living in Bienville and Webster parishes. 

Is this your family? Do you have this photo? 

Update: This family has been identified! In the photo are George Edwin Frye (1873-1911) and Minnie Elkins Frye (1878-1981). The children are Beatrice Frye Sparkman (1899-2003) and George Lovic Frye (1901-1994).

Other Frye Family Posts

Friday's Photo: Grover Frye of Louisiana

Friday's Photo: The James M. Frye Family of Northwest Louisiana

Friday's Photo: William "Bill" Evans and Hattie Frye

From the Files of Marguerite Cook Clark: Charles Jefferson Frye of Ringgold, Bienville Parish, Louisiana

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Mr. and Mrs. George Frye, photograph, n.d.; scanned image, from the privately held photo collection of the Frye Family, San Francisco, 2019.

Find a Grave, database, and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/71596029/george-washington-frye : accessed 20 May 2022), memorial page for George Washington Frye Jr., Find a Grave Memorial ID 71596029, citing Gilgal Cemetery, Claiborne Parish, Louisiana; maintained by Robert Braselton (contributor 47224886).

Friday's Photo: Lillie Mae Trott, from Bienville Parish to San Francisco

Lillie Mae Trott  1895 - 1985 [1]

Lillie Mae Trott, the daughter of Lula Laura Cook and William Jackson Trott, was born on 22 May 1895 in Bienville Parish, Louisiana. Lillie Mae's father was from Alabama, but her mother grew up in Bienville Parish. Lula Laura Cook was the daughter of Joseph Cook and Josie Bryan and the granddaughter of Joseph Bryan and Sarah Margaret Wimberly.[2] 

Lillie Mae grew up in Bienville Parish with two siblings, Allie Belle Trott and William Bryan Trott.[3] Lillie's father, William Trott, was a teacher in 1900 and 1910 but is shown as a farmer on the census in 1920.[4] Lula Laura, her mother, was known to be a teacher assistant and was appointed postmaster at Ringgold in 1932.[5] 

Lillie Mae Trott - about 1916 [11]

Lillie Mae married Herbert Benjamin Scott of Hope, Louisiana (now known as Fryeburg) sometime before 13 February 1916, when she was found as a resident of Hope as Mrs. H. B. Scott.[6] In December of 1917, Lillie Mae was working as a teacher in a public school in Hope, Louisiana but lived on Templeman Street in Shreveport.[7] By 1920 Lillie Mae and Herbert were living in Ringgold.[8] 

In 1922 Lillie Mae and her husband moved to Georgetown, Louisiana, and by 1926 they built a home in Pollock described as a residence and garage. The garage may have been a Ford dealership as H. B. Scott was the Ford Dealer in Pollock. At one time, it was also described as a filling station.[9] 

Lillie Mae was an active community member in Pollock. She was president of the PTA and a member of the State PTA Board; she organized the Pollock Community Fair and attended the State Woman's Missionary meeting in New Orleans.[10] 

Lillie Mae and Herbert had two children; Mary Beth Scott in 1920 and Jack Anthony Scott, who died at birth in 1926.[12] 

In 1928, the City Cafe opened in Pollock with Lillie Mae as the manager. On the 1930 U. S. Census, Lillie Mae's occupation was listed as a salesman in the insurance industry while her husband sold cars.[13] 

By 1931, Hebert Scott lived in Hope while Lillie Mae remained in Pollock. The Scott home burned later that year, and Lillie Mae and her daughter eventually moved to Alexandria.[14] 

Lillie Mae married Captain William W. Murphey on 15 February 1936 in Minden, Louisiana, at the home of Mr. and Mrs. L. B. Hunter. They may have met in Alexandria as Captain Murphey was the executive officer at Camp Beauregard in Alexandria prior to their marriage. Following their marriage, they lived in Alabama and the Philippine Islands.[15] 

In the summer of 1941, Lillie Mae and her daughter, Mary Beth, evacuated the Philippine Islands with other military families due to safety concerns.[16] William Murphey, a Lieutenant Colonel, remained at Fort Stotsenburg in the Philippines and was captured by the Japanese at the fall of Bataan. He was eventually transferred to a prison camp on Honshu, where he died on 31 January 1945.[17]

After leaving the Philippines, Lillie Mae lived in San Francisco until the age of 85 when she moved to Alabama to live with her daughter. Lillie Mae died at the age of 90 in Alabama. She and her husband are buried in the San Francisco National Cemetery.[18] 

Click on the links below to see photos of Lillie Mae as a child and other Trott family photos.

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

Friday's Photo: A Trott Family Home in Bienville Parish

Friday's Photo: William Jackson Trott and Lula Laura Cook Wedding Photo - Bienville Parish 1893

Friday's Photo: The Trott Sisters, Lillie Mae, and Allie Belle, of Bienville Parish, Louisiana

Friday's Photo: The William J. Trott Family of Bienville Parish, Louisiana

From the Files of Marguerite Cook Clark: Lula Laura Cook Trott

Friday's Photo: Benjamin F. Trott and Daughter Annie

Friday's Photo: Grandma Trott

Friday's Photo: Sam Trott

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    1. Lillie Mae Trott, photograph, n.d.; scanned image, from the privately held photo collection of the Frye Family, San Francisco, 2019.

    2.  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.

    3. ibid.

    4. 1910 U.S. Census, Bienville, Louisiana, population schedule, Ward 4,  enumeration district 8, page 13A, dwelling 206, family  206, William J. Trott household; digital images, Ancestry.com (https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/7884/images/31111_4329971-00342?pId=166957930 : accessed 16 April 2022); citing NARA microfilm publication T624, roll T624_509. Also, 1900 U.S. Census, Bienville Parish, Louisiana, population schedule, Ringgold, ward 4,  enumeration district 7, page 2A, dwelling 23, family 23, W. J. Trott household; digital images, Ancestry.com (https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/7602/images/4120173_00878?pId=5899283: accessed 21 April 2022); citing NARA microfilm publication T624, roll 509. Also, 1920 U.S. Census, Bienville, Louisiana, population schedule, ward 4,  enumeration district 140, page 2A, dwelling 163, family 153, W. J. Trott household; digital images, Ancestry.com (https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/6061/images/4300961_00278?pId=29023813 : accessed 28 April 2022); citing NARA microfilm publication T625, roll 606. 

    5. 1910 U.S. Census, Bienville, Louisiana, population schedule, Ward 4,  enumeration district 8, page 13A, dwelling 206, family  206, William J. Trott household; digital images, Ancestry.com (https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/7884/images/31111_4329971-00342?pId=166957930 : accessed 16 April 2022); citing NARA microfilm publication T624, roll T624_509. Also, New Postmaster Takes Position at Ringgold, The Times (Shreveport, Louisiana), 27 April 1932, p.5; database with images, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/clip/100644436/lula-laura-cook-trott-postmaster/: accessed 28 April 2022).

    6. Personals, The Times (Shreveport, Louisiana), 13 February 1916, p.3; database with images, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/clip/100646494/lillie-mae-trott-is-mrs-h-b-scott-in/: accessed 28 April 2022).

    7. Personals, The Times (Shreveport, Louisiana), 28 December 1917, p.10; database with images, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/clip/87464977/lillie-mae-trott-scott/: accessed 28 April 2022).

    8. 1920 U.S. Census, Bienville, Louisiana, population schedule, ward 4, Ringgold Village,  enumeration district 4, page 2B, dwelling 41, family 41, Herbert Scott household; digital images, Ancestry.com (https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/6061/images/4300961_00259?pId=29022921 : accessed 28 April 2022); citing NARA microfilm publication T625, roll 606.

    9. Pollock Personals, The Town Talk (Alexandria, Louisiana), 28 December 1917, p.10; database with images, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/clip/87468558/h-b-scott-new-carlillie-mae-trott/: accessed 28 April 2022). Also, Filling Station at Pollock Burns; Loss is $2000, The Town Talk (Alexandria, Louisiana), 21 February 1931, p.1; database with images, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/clip/87470129/burned-filling-station-lillie-mae/: accessed 28 April 2022). Also, Pollock Feels Oil Field Boom, The Town Talk (Alexandria, Louisiana), 20 February 1926, p.4; database with images, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/clip/87466552/lillie-mae-trott-mm-hb-scott/: accessed 28 April 2022).

    10. Pollock, The Times (Shreveport, Louisiana), 22 April 1928, p.30; database with images, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/clip/87468934/state-missionary-meeting-new/: accessed 28 April 2022). Also, Pollock Parent Teachers Meet, Weekly Town Talk (Alexandria, Louisiana), 21 January 1928, p.6; database with images, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/clip/87468684/president-of-pta-also-vp-of-wmu/: accessed 28 April 2022). Also, Pollock Community Fair Arrangements, The Town Talk (Alexandria, Louisiana), 11 September 1925, p.12; database with images, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/clip/87466036/mrs-h-b-scott-organizer-of-fair-lillie/: accessed 28 April 2022). Also, State PTA Board Holds Meet Today, The Shreveport Journal, 30 September 1932, p.20; database with images, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/clip/84349595/state-pta-board-lilli-mae-trott-mrs/: accessed 28 April 2022).

    11. Lillie Mae Trott Scott, photograph, ca. 1916; scanned image, from the privately held photo collection of the Frye Family, San Francisco, 2019. 

    12. Mary Pilkington, The Selma Times-Journal (Selma, Alabama), 23 September 1985, p.7; database with images, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/clip/58551888/obituary-for-mary-beth-scott-allen/?: accessed 28 April 2022). Also, Pollock, The Times (Shreveport, Louisiana), 5 December 1926, p.40; database with images, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/clip/87467483/jack-anthony-baby-son-of-mr-and-mrs-h/: accessed 28 April 2022).

    13. Pollock Personals, Weekly Town Talk (Alexandria, Louisiana), 7 April 1928, p.4; database with images, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/clip/87468878/mrs-h-b-scott-manager-cafe-lille-mae/: accessed 28 April 2022). Also, 1930 U.S. Census, Grant County, Louisiana, Pollock Town, population schedule, supervisor's district no. 5, enumeration district 22-4,  p.1A, dwelling 6, family 6, Herbert B. Scott household; digital images, Ancestry.com (https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/6224/images/4584878_00077?pId=34807365: accessed 24 April 2022); citing NARA microfilm T626.

    14. Pollock, The Town Talk (Alexandria, Louisiana), 14 February 1931, p.2; database with images, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/clip/87469987/hb-scott-living-in-hope-arkansas-so/: accessed 28 April 2022). Also, H. B. Scott Home at Pollock Burns, Loss Totals $6000, The Town Talk (Alexandria, Louisiana), 5 October 1931, p.8; database with images, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/clip/84350519/h-b-scott-home-burns-lillie-mae-trott/: accessed 28 April 2022).

    15. “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). Also, “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/clip/100675597/mary-beth-scott-allen-dau-of-lillie/ : accessed 8 Dec. 2021).

    16. Ibid.

    17. Find a Grave, database and images  (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/8757949/william-wayne-murphey : accessed 28 April 2022), memorial page for LTC William Wayne Murphey, Find a Grave Memorial ID 8757949, citing San Francisco National Cemetery, San Francisco, San Francisco County, California, USA; Maintained by William Holly (contributor 46616971). 

    18. Lillie Murphey, The Selma Times-Journal (Selma, Alabama), 19 June1985, p.2; database with images, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/clip/84304632/lilli-mae-murphey-obituary/: accessed 28 April 2022).

Friday's Photo: Ruby Poland Metcalf

26 July 1911 to 15 September 2003 [1]

This photo was found in the Frye family's collection.[2] It is badly stained and I used my very amateurish skill of repairing photos to make it look a little better. The original is below. 

Ruby Louise Poland was the daughter of Alabama Frye and Hardie J. Poland. Her family lived in Fryeburg in Bienville Parish. Ruby was married to Albert Crockett Metcalf. She is buried in Bistineau Cemetery in Heflin, Webster Parish along with her parents and other family members.[3] 

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    1. Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/38361913/ruby-louise-metcalf : accessed 15 April 2022), memorial page for Ruby Louise Poland Metcalf (26 Jul 1911–15 Sep 2003), Find a Grave Memorial ID 38361913, citing Bistineau Cemetery, Heflin, Webster Parish, Louisiana, USA ; Maintained by Ron Manley (contributor 46788603).

    2. Ruby Louise Poland Metcalf, photograph, n.d.; scanned image, from the privately held photo collection of the Frye Family, San Francisco, 2019.

    3. Find a Grave, memorial  38361913, for Ruby Louise Poland Metcalf. 

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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    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).

Friday's Photo: The Trott Sisters, Lillie Mae and Allie Belle, of Bienville Parish, Louisiana

This beautiful photo of the Trott sisters, Lillie Mae and Allie Belle, was found in the Frye family collection.[1] Photos from the same photography session were found in Marguerite Cook Clark's collection.[2] 

These photos were taken sometime around 1900 as Lillie Mae was born in 1895 and Allie Belle in 1896. The sisters were the daughters of William Jackson Trott and Lula Laura Cook.[3]

The connection between the Frye family and Marguerite Cook Clark is through the Lula Laura's Bryan and Cook families. Both Lula Laura Cook and Marguerite Cook Clark are direct descendants of my great-great-grandparents Reddick Bryan and Elizabeth Regan.[4]

On the Cook side, the families were distantly related through Phillip Henry Cook of South Carolina and Mississippi.[5] 

Note that Allie Belle married Charles Jefferson Frye.[6] 

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    1. Lillie Mae and Allie Belle Trott, photograph, abt. 1900; scanned image, from the privately held photo collection of the Frye Family, San Francisco, 2019. Used with permission. 

    2. Lillie Mae and Allie Belle Trott photographs, ca.1900; digital images, from the privately held photo collection of Marguerite Cook Clark (1913-1989), Waynesville, North Carolina, 2021. Photos were accessed and scanned at the home of Marguerite Cook Clark's daughter in Alpine, Texas on April 28, 2014, September 14, 2014, and November 9 to 11, 2016. Used with permission. 

    3. BowmanFrye, "Frye Family Tree," public tree, Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/tree/44469039/family/familyview?cfpid=6225724348: accessed 9 September 2021). 

    4. Diana Quinn, "My Family - Bryan, Regan, Albritton, Hairston, Davis, Giddens, Glynn, Bradshaw, Britt, Quinn, Murray, Driscoll," public tree, Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/tree/45260559/family/familyview?cfpid=410088574056: accessed 9 September 2021). 

    5. bburnett1942, "MCGRAW," public tree, Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/tree/77438091/family/familyview?cfpid=32370014188&fpid=32370014554&usePUBJs=true: accessed 9 September 2021). 

    6. "From the Files of Marguerite Cook Clark: Charles Jefferson Frye of Ringgold, Bienville Parish, Louisiana," blog entry, 27 January 2015, Moments in Time: A Genealogy Blog, blog (https://momentsintimeagenealogyblog.blogspot.com/2015/01/from-files-of-marguerite-cook-clark_27.html : accessed 9 September 2021).