Friday's Photo: Camp B Natural

These photos were in my grandmother's album. My grandmother, Edith Giddens, is in the back row and is second from the left in the bottom photo. This might have been in or near Phillipsburg, New Jersy as that's where she lived until the 1920s. No others in the photo are labeled. The photos are dated 1916; however, this date may be approximate as I know these labels were added in the late 1960s or early 1970s.  


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Sources

Family photographs and documents from the collection of Diana Bryan Quinn. Used with permission.

Friday's Photo: Sarah Margaret Wimberly and Joseph B. Bryan

Photograph from the Marguerite Cook Clark Collection

A note found in Marguerite Cook Clark's research files 

Joseph B. Bryan was the son of Reddick Bryan and Elizabeth Regan. He was born on September 19, 1824, in Georgia - probably Houston County. 

Sarah Margaret Wimberly was born in Twiggs County, Georgia on February 23, 1828. She was the daughter of William Wimberly and Lucy Smith Lawson. 

Sarah and Joseph were married on December 4, 1845, in Bienville Parish, Louisiana. They had eight children. Marguerite Cook Clark was a descendant of Sarah and Joseph's daughter, Laura. There are numerous photos of Sarah and Joseph's children and other descendants in her collection. Over the next month or so, I will be posting pictures and documents related to this family. 

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Sources 

Family photographs and documents from the collection of Marguerite Cook Clark. Accessed April 28, 2014, September 14, 2014, and November 9 to 11, 2016. Used with permission.

Friday's Photo: Mitchell Alonzo Giddens

Mitchell Alonzo Giddens was the son of my great-great-grandfather, George L. Giddens, and his second wife, Sarah Rich. He was born in Duplin County, North Carolina on September 18, 1900. 

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Sources

Family photographs from the Giddens Family collection. Accessed July 2012. Used with permission.

"Retired Officer, M. A. Giddens, Dies Saturday," El Paso Times (El Paso, Texas), 25 Jul 1976, p. 34, digital images, Newspapers.com: accessed 26 Jul. 2019.  https://www.newspapers.com/clip/34262318/mitchell_alonzo_giddens_obituary/

“U.S., School Yearbooks, 1900-1999 for Mitchell Alonzo Giddens.” https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/1265/31916_b033941-00162/28086815?indiv=try&h&db. Accessed 26 Jul. 2019.

Friday's Photo: Fieldman

This is another photo from the Frye family collection. On the back is Fieldman, Louise's boy, age 18, six-feet tall, and 175 pounds. I searched for Fieldman and Louise in Louisiana without success. If you know the identity of this handsome young man, comment below or leave a message on my Facebook page. 

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Sources

Family photographs from the Frye Family collection. Accessed June 6, 2016 and June 3, 2019. Used with permission.

Friday's Photo: The Bienville Parish Home Demonstration Council

Myrtice Vinson
Bienville Parish Home Demonstration Agent

County (Parish) Home Demonstration Councils were first formed in 1924. The principal objectives of the county home demonstration councils were to develop leadership and to forward and extend home demonstration work among both women and girls through county-wide cooperation with all rural homemakers. These councils also served as a medium through which the local Home Demonstration Agent received information from community clubs and gave additional help to rural homemakers. 

The first meeting of the Bienville Parish Home Demonstration Club was on Friday, January 26, 1934. 

The article below describes the location and those women expected at the first meeting. These photos were probably not taken during that first meeting as the women are wearing clothing meant for warmer weather than expected in January. Additional photos, along with enlarged portions of the photos can be seen below. Any help naming the women in the photos is appreciated. 

Found at Newspapers.com

Mrs. C. J. Frye was a representative on the council during the first meeting and I am assuming she is in one of these photos as they were found in the Frye Family Collection. 

This photo was labeled Home Demonstration Council. Mrs. J. A. Roane.

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Sources

Barry, Maggie W. and Swift, Helen H. An Organization Manual for the County Home Demonstration Councils. 1941.  Accessed 12 July 2019.  <https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/d577/dce35fe7fab1d231b4310c3d4e7fa8b80252.pdf>

Family photographs from the Frye Family collection. Accessed June 6, 2016 and June 3, 2019. Used with permission.

"Farm Clubs to Organize in Bienville," The Times  Shreveport, Louisiana. 22 Jan 1934, p. 5, digital images, Newspapers.com: accessed 12 July 2019. <https://www.newspapers.com/clip/33801890/home_demonstration_council_in_bienville/#

Friday's Photo: Another Unknown Photo from Bienville Parish

This photo came from the collection of Marguerite Cook Clark. The high collar and tie led me to believe that this photo was taken in the very early 1900s.  

Hinklea is written across the top. The green ink and handwriting show me that Marguerite's mother, Mary Marguerite "Maggie" Martin Cook, labeled the photo. Could his name be Hinkley? If you can identify this photo, please leave a message below or on my Facebook page. 

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Sources

Family photographs and documents from the collection of Marguerite Cook Clark. Accessed April 28, 2014, September 14, 2014, and November 9 to 11, 2016. Used with permission.

Friday's Photos: A Revisit to Bienville Parish Photos

Zelma Lucille Burroughs Jones
1918-2000

My recent posts containing photos from the Frye Family Collection need to be revisited. 

These two photos, posted on April 19, 2019, were thought to be Velma Louise Burroughs who graduated from Ringgold High School in Bienville Parish. 

The son of Velma Louise Burroughs saw the photos and stated this was not his mother but was his dearest aunt, Zelma Lucille Burroughs. 

Zelma Lucille Burroughs, the daughter of Stephen and Bennie Dell Burroughs, was the younger sister of Velma Louise. She was born in 1918, graduated from Ringgold High School in 1935, and married Malvin Samuel Jones on November 20, 1941. 

The photo of Mount Lebanon University, posted on April 26, 2019, was very faded and fuzzy. Several people belonging to Facebook groups History of Bienville Parish and Living Histories of Northwest Louisiana Families sent edited versions of the photos allowing us to more clearly view the details. Thank you all who sent photos! Here is one of the revisions below. 

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Sources 

Family photographs from the Frye Family collection. Accessed June 6, 2016. Used with permission.

Ringgold High School Senior Class Numbers 28. Newspapers.com. The Times  Shreveport, Louisiana 17 May 1935, Fri  •  Page 4  https://www.newspapers.com/clip/31214364/the_times/

Nuptuals. Newspapers.com. The Times Shreveport, Louisiana 23 Nov 1941, Sun  •  Page 27 https://www.newspapers.com/clip/31214481/wedding_of_lucille_burroughs_and_m_sam/. 

Quinn, Diana B. “Moments in Time, A Genealogy Blog: Friday's Photo: Louise Burroughs.” https://momentsintimeagenealogyblog.blogspot.com/2019/04/fridays-photo-louise-burroughs.html. Accessed 3 May. 2019.

Quinn, Diana B. “Moments in Time, A Genealogy Blog: Friday's Photo: Mount Lebanon University 1890.” https://momentsintimeagenealogyblog.blogspot.com/2019/04/fridays-photo-mount-lebanon-university.html. Accessed 3 May. 2019.

Friday's Photo: Mount Lebanon University 1890

This is another photo from the Frye Family Collection. The original photo was extremely faded. I was able to brighten it slightly, but restoring photos is not one of my skills. If anyone wants to take a shot at improving the clarity, I will send the original scan. 

The photo appears to be Mount Lebanon University as it matches the building in the photo found on page 32 of Bienville Parish by Benjamin Brad Dison. 

This clipping gives a very brief history.
Found at Newspapers.com

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Sources

Bienville Parish - Benjamin Brad Dison - Google Books. Arcadia Publishing, 2014.  https://books.google.com/books? id=lQGRAwAAQBAJ&dq=mount+lebanon+university+bienville+parish

Family photographs from the Frye Family collection. Accessed June 6, 2016. Used with permission.

The Town Talk. Alexandria, Louisiana 28 Apr 1991, Sun  •  Page 11. Newspapers.com.   https://www.newspapers.com/clip/30988637/louisiana_college_history/

Friday's Photo: Louise Burroughs

These photos from the Frye Family Collection, are labeled Louise Burroughs. 

A search on Ancestry.com found Velma Louise Burroughs born in 1916 to Stephen Burroughs and Bennie Dell Burroughs. 

Is this pictured Louise Burroughs actually Velma Louise Burroughs who graduated from Ringgold High School in 1934 and married Jasper Tillman Nix?

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Sources

Family photographs from the Frye Family collection. Accessed June 6, 2016. Used with permission.

Newspapers.com - The Times - 1934-06-03 - Page Page 22  https://www.newspapers.com/clip/30735868/1934_graduates_of_ringgold_high_school/

Thompson S. "Velma Louise Burroughs" Ancestry.com. Web. 18 April 2019.   https://www.ancestry.com/connect/Profile/01d6abf5-0001-0000-0000-000000000000?indiv=try&h&db

Friday's Photo: Ruth Hawk of Phillipsburg, New Jersey

This photo is labeled Ruth Hawk Peters. It is assumed the child is her daughter,
Mae (or May). If the child is Mae, the photo would have been taken about 1922.
Note the man in the window.

This photo, found in my grandmother's album, is labeled Ruth Hawks Peters. A search for Ruth at Ancestry.com revealed her full name as Marion Ruth Hawk and a birth date of January 28, 1897. She was about the same age as my grandmother, Edith Giddens. Were they childhood friends? 

Ruth was one of seven children born to Hiram R. Hawk and Ida Carling. In 1900, the family was living on Sitgreaves Street in Phillipsburg but by 1905 both the Hawk and Giddens families were living on Mercer Street. 

In 1920, Ruth and her husband, Charles Peters, were living with her parents on Washington Street. Ruth was 21 years old and not working. Charles was a freight handler. 

The family was living on Summit Avenue in 1930. Ruth Peters was a teacher with a 10-year-old daughter, Mae. Charles was not seen on this census. 

By 1940, Ruth, a teacher, had married Raymond J. Stewart.  Living with Ruth and her husband was daughter, May, along with her husband, Jay Vanemberg, and their infant daughter, Beverly. 

Marion Ruth Stewart died on October 26, 1948, and is buried in Fairmount Cemetery in Phillipsburg, New Jersey. 

Newspapers.com

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Sources

Ancestry.com. New Jersey, Births and Christenings Index, 1660-1931 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011.

Ancestry.com. New Jersey, State Census, 1905 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2017.

Deaths in New Jersey. The Courier-News (Bridgewater, New Jersey) 25 Oct 1948, Page 24 Newspapers.com https://www.newspapers.com/clip/30412522/maybe_ruth_hawk_peters_grandmas/

Family photographs and documents from the collection Diana Bryan Quinn

Find A Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 11 April 2019), memorial page for Marion Ruth Stewart (unknown–26 Oct 1948), Find A Grave Memorial no. 135117921, citing Fairmount Cemetery, Phillipsburg, Warren County, New Jersey, USA ; Maintained by lulu (contributor 47183637).

Year: 1900; Census Place: Phillipsburg Ward 2, Warren, New Jersey; Page: 12; Enumeration District: 0198; FHL microfilm: 1240998

Year: 1910; Census Place: Phillipsburg Ward 1, Warren, New Jersey; Roll: T624_912; Page: 4A; Enumeration District: 0139; FHL microfilm: 1374925

Year: 1920; Census Place: Phillipsburg Ward 5, Warren, New Jersey; Roll: T625_1073; Page: 3A; Enumeration District: 174

Year: 1930; Census Place: Phillipsburg, Warren, New Jersey; Page: 6B; Enumeration District: 0023; FHL microfilm: 2341126


Year: 1940; Census Place: Phillipsburg, Warren, New Jersey; Roll: m-t0627-02392; Page: 9B; Enumeration District: 21-37