Image:Margaret Agnes Watson First Photo Album Page8.jpg

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Date
1912
Place
Barry, Pike, Illinois, United States

This is a scan of a page from a photo album created by Margaret Agness Watson Cooke, Barry, Pike County, Illinois. She evidently received a Brownie camera for Christmas 1912 and took photos of family and friends in Barry and surrounding areas, and on a visit to Henrietta, Clay County, Texas to visit the R.H. Palmer family. Their daughter Bess Mona Palmer, later married Margaret's brother Brett. Some photos were removed and glued into copies of the books Margaret's parents created about their families' histories.

Top Row Left Photo (missing): "Margaret in 1908 & twin dolls, Terre Haute" Margaret's mother's sister, Belle Bonnell Farwell lived in Terre Haute, Indiana. Hart Farwell, Belle's husband, was instrumental in the formation of several telephone companies in the Midwest. Margaret's cousin Bonnie Farwell was very active in the DAR at the national level.

Middle Photo: October 1911. Uncle Eugene standing in the back (Eugene Smith, married to Margaret's mother's sister Helen), Mother,Aunt Helen (Helen Bonnell Smith) , Stanley Smith (son of Eugene and Helen), Aunt Belle (Belle Bonnell Farwell)

Bottom Row: Left photo "Taken in October 1911" Left to right: Moma, Helen Bonnell Smith, Stanley Smith, unidentified, Belle Bonnell Farwell.

Middle photo: Mama in 1908 in Terre Haute.

Left photo: "Where the folks first lived" Terre Haute, Ind. (The folks referred to are probably the Farwells.)

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