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Margaret Agness Watson was born 31 January 1899 to William Walcott "Buck" Watson and Margaret Alice Bonnell, in Barry, Pike County, Illinois. Her parents were very active in the community, and her mother ran the "Cradle Roll" or infant and toddler Sunday school for the Methodist Church. Margaret was evidently given a Brownie camera for Christmas 1912, as the first photo in the album is the family Christmas tree. She took many photos of her family and friends in town, and Margaret identified many of them in white ink on the pages of the album. She didn't always put their last names, so I am posting the album on this site so others can add their names when I don't know them.
Some photos were taken in Henrietta, Clay County, Texas and the nearby county seat of Wichita Falls. Margaret's brother married Bess Mona Palmer, daughter of Robert Henry Palmer and Ora Stearns of Henrietta. Mr. Palmer was born in Wales, but was brought to Barry as a young man by his father, who worked on the railroads. Mrs. Palmer was born and raised in Barry. Both graduated from Barry High School. Mr. Palmer went to Texas for the opportunities available there, and went back to Barry to marry his sweetheart. The Palmer children often spent summers with their grandfather Stearns in Barry, and were friends with the Watsons.
Margaret was particularly good friends with the youngest Palmer daughter, Ruth. I have Ruth's photo album, and it contains duplicates of some of the pictures in Margaret's album.
In the late 1920's Margaret's parents wrote books about their families. Buck had published the local newspaper, The Barry Adage, for many years and was an adept typist. He typed several copies of the books, which were then bound. Each copy was created for a specific member of their families, so each was different. They took photos from the album and put them in these books. For example, the copy given to the McConnell branch of the Watson family would have photos of their members, while one for a Bonnell sibling would have photos of that branch.
Ancestry.com scanned this album and another of Margaret's photo album at the Southern California Genealogical Society's 2012 Genealogy Jamboree. Without their help, this album might never have been posted here, and I thank them very much.
The scans they made are of incredibly high quality, and pixels don't show when blown up to poster size. If anyone wants one of these images, please let me know.
Page One These photos were all taken outside the Watson house on Mortimer Street, Barry, Illinois.
Top Row: Left Photo: Christmas tree December 23, 1912
Center Photo (missing): Brett and Russell December 27, 1912 (Brett Watson and Russell McConnell)
Right Photo: Brett and Margaret Dec. 28, 1912 (Margaret and her brother Brett Bonnell Watson)
Bottom Row: Left Photo: Lu Robb Dec 1912
Right Photo: Mama (Margaret Alice Bonnell Watson, Edith 1912
Page 2 Top Row: Left Photo: "Chamberlains in California, Rear of Virginia Hotel–Beachside"
Right Photo: In rear of Dr's Residence on left, Chamberlains in California 28 November 1912"
Bottom Row: Left Photo: Aunt Belle (Belle Bonnell Farwell) and Mama (Margaret Alice Bonnell Watson)
Middle Photo: Aunt Jessie 1912 (This could be Jessie Sellers, daughter of Dolford Sellers and Margaret's second cousin May T. McConnell. Jessie Sellers was born in 1891. I have no idea who the children are. Jessie wasn't married until 1924 and had no nieces or nephews in 1912.)
Left Photo (missing): Margaret in 1908.
Page 3 Top Row Left Photo: Visitors, Mama (Margaret Bonnell Watson), Bessie (the horse)
Right Photo: "Party entertained by Mrs. Wilson"
Bottom Row: Left Photo: Party entertained by Mrs. Wilson
Right Photo (missing): "Mama, Miss York Miss"
Page 4 Top Row: photobooth strip of Margaret taken when she was much younger.
Bottom Row: Left Photo: "Margaret in 1908, before bobbing"
Center Photo (missing): Aunt Belle (Belle Bonnell Farwell) and Mama (Margaret Bonnell Watson)
Right Photo: "Margaret in 1908 after bobbing"
Page 5 Top Row Left Photo (missing): "October 1912 Margaret W, Ruth, Elizabeth, Cordell" Cordell is probably Cordell Hailey.
Right Photo: "Sunday afternoon October 1912 Me, Sophia (Sophia Strubinger), Glenna, Esther" (Esther McVay was Margaret Watson's best friend.)
Bottom Row: Left Photo: "Sunday afternoon October 1912 Sophia (Sophia Strubinger), Louis Strubinger, Me (Margaret Watson), Mrs. Strubinger, Esther (McVay)
Right Photo: Sunday afternoon October 1812 back row Mary Early, Effie H., Margaret Watson, Front row: Cordell Hailey, Esther (McVay), Margaret Hailey, baby Ruth Hailey
The Haileys were children of Methodist minister Rev. William Hailey. In the 1910 census he was ministering to a church in Rushville, Illinois, but by 1912 he was minister at the Methodist Church the Watsons attended. Margaret grew very close to Fosterr Hailey, who became a noted war correspondent during World War II.
Page 6 Top Row Left Photo: Mrs. Edna Hart and Esther McVay, at Hart's Spring on a picnic
Right Photo: Margaret and her mother
Bottom Row Left Photo: "Sunday School Class"
Right Photo: "Out Wading"
Page 7 Top Row Left Photo: 1912 3 boys in the back–Foster (Hailey), Walter, Howard; Middle row: Esther McVay, Gladys Coffman, Wilma Kistner, Margaret, Rosa, Merida, Dorothy; Front row: Mary E., Lee (Lee Robb), Helen M., Helen Gowdy, Ida, Merida is possibly Merida Ware, the only Merida in Pike County in the 1910 Census. She was about born in 1900, according to the census listing. Helen G. is probably Helen Gowdy, who was a life-long friend of Margaret. Ida is probably Ida Lewton.
Right Photo: Esther (McVay) 1912 "Esther just after she got up from her long spell of sickness"
Bottom Row Left Photo: Esther McVay and Margaret 1912
Right Photo: Under the Photo: 1912 Madge, On the photo itself: "Madge M. a special case" The nurse is Margaret Watson Sellers, always called Madge. She was a nurse in World War I.
Page 8
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.)
Page 9
Top Row Left Photo: Sunday afternoon Feb. 9, 1913 at Hailey's. Arthur Hailey is standing behind, Gretta, Margaret, Effie, Lee (Lee Robb) and Lucille. Rev. William Hailey was a Methodist minister in Barry.
Mrs. Strain in Carrollton, Illinois. On the photo "John Hunter, his nice cousins and Chubby (or Chubbly)
Bottom Row Left Photo: "Esther (McVay) and her folks in Colorado, 1911"
Right Photo: "Our Sunday School class out to Strokker's, 1912
Page 10
Top Row Left Photo: Cordell Hailey and Margaret Hailey, March 1, 1913
Middle Photo: Ida Lewton and Helen Gowdy, March 8, 1913. The girls are wearing roller skates.
Right Photo: Ida Lewton March 1, 1913
Notice all the snow in the March 1 photos, and that it is all gone by March 7.
Bottom Row Left Photo: Sunday School Class March 1, 1913
Right Photo: No identification.
Page 11 Top Row Left Photo: Bonnie Farwell March 1913
Middle Photo (missing): Uncle Eugene, Mama, Aunt Belle, Papa, Aunt Helen March 1913
Left Photo: Margaret, March 1913
Bottom Row Left Photo: Brett Watson, Bonnie Farwell, Margaret Watson, Stanley Smith. They were all children of younger Bonnell sisters.
Right Photo: Stanley Smith, Margaret Watson, Bonnie Farwell
Page 12 Top Row Left Photo: April 1, 1913 Lolo Doyle and Gwendolynn
Right Photo: March 30, 1913 In the Park, left to right Glenna K. (might be Glenna Kinney), Esther McVay, Helen Gowdy
Bottom Photo: March 30, 1913 Edith and Margaret
Page 13
Top Row Left Photo: March 18, 1913 Papa (William Walcott "Buck" Watson), Uncle John (John Watson)
Right Photo: March 18, 1913 Charlie Fletcher, Papa
Bottom Row Left Photo: March 18, 1913 Madge Sellers
Right Photo (missing): March 18, 1913 Papa, Uncle John (John Watson), Mama, Madge Sellers, Aunt Mollie McConnell (stepsister of Margaret's father), Aunt Fan (Fannie Bella Robb Watson, wife of John Watson), Uncle Mac (Bunyan McConnell, husband of Aunt Mollie), Margaret
Page 14
Top Row Left Photo: April 6, 1913 Esther McVay, Margaret, Eve Anne, Glenna, Helen Gowdy at McVay's farm.
Middle Photo: April 13, 1913 Sophia S (probably Sophia Strubinger)., Margaret at Strubingers
Right Photo: April 18, 1913 Glenna, Esther McVay, Margaret in the Park
Bottom Row Left Photo: March 30, 1913 Margaret, Helen Gowdy, Glenna in the Park (Margaret may be holding her Christmas camera.)
Right Photo: April 26, 1913 Merida Ware, Foster Hailey
Page 15
Top Row Left Photo: April 23, 1913 Mama (Margaret Bonnell Watson)
Middle Photo: April 6, 1913 Esther McVay, Helen Gowdy, Glenna, Sophia Strubinger, Eve Anna Gowdy at McVay's farm.
Right Photo: April 6, 1913 Russell Mc., Margaret This picture was clearly taken before the others. Margaret is much younger.The little boy is probably Russell McConnell, grandson of Margaret's father's stepsister Mary Ann Jessie Watson McConnell.
Bottom Row Left Photo: March 31, 1913 front row: Dorothy S., Esther McVay, Merida Ware, Howard, Walter; back row: Lucille McCarl, Miss Tipple, Edna H., Henry W. on a school picnic. Based on the 1910 census of Barry, Dorothy S. might be Dorothy Slater, the only Dorothy S. listed. She's the same age as Margaret. Henry is probably Henry Wendorff. Edna H. might be Edna Hess.
Right Photo: March 13, 1930 Mary E., Mary D, Hazel, Helen Gowdy
Page 16
Top Row Left Photo (missing): April 19, 1913 Margaret, Lee Robb
Middle Photo: April 19, 1913 Ida Lewton, Margaret Watson, Lee Robb
Right Photo: April 19, 1913 Ida Lewton
Bottom Row Left Photo: April 19, 1913 Myrtle Mayer, John Garrett
Right Photo: April 24, 1913 Mrs. Arntz
Page 17
Top Row Left Photo: Margaret
Middle Photo:Madge (Margaret Watson Sellers), Uncle John (probably John McConnell, son of Margaret's father's stepsister).
Right Photo: April 23, 1913 Frances Arntz
Bottom Row Left Photo: April 26, 1913 Bret (Margaret's brother, Bret Watson), Arthur Maltman There is an Arthur L. Maltman living in Rushville, Schuyler County, Illinois in the 1910 census)
Right Photo: Madge (Margaret Watson Sellers)
Page 18
Top Row Left Photo: Momma, Aunt Elizabeth. Elizabeth is Mary Elizabeth Bonnell Demoine. Her father, Dr. William Wayland Bonnell, was Margaret's mother's elder brother; he was 26 years older. William was a doctor in Griggsville, Illinios for many years, and Margaret and Elizabeth were best friends for much of her childhood.
Right Photo: Miss Gertrude Foreman
Bottom Row Left Photo: April 28, 1913 Margaret, Pappa, Mama
Right Photo (missing): May 16, 1913 Papa, Aunt Elizabeth, Uncle Eugene
Mama, Aunt Zue, Aunt Helen
Margaret
Elizabeth is Mary Elizabeth Bonnell Demoine (see top row left photo). Uncle Eugene and Aunt Helen are Eugene and Helen Smith; Helen was Helen Bonnell before her marriage, sister to Margaret's mother. Zue is Missouri Behymer Hooper, a niece of Helen and "Mama"'s mother Amelia Mattox Bonnell. When Zue's parents died, she was raised with the Bonnell children.
Page 19
Top Row Left Photo: Anna Ware, Margaret
Right Photo: Margaret, Anna Ware, Helen Gowdy At Boy Scout Camp May 23, 1913
Bottom Row Left Photo: Wilma K., Lee Robb., Mr. McIntire, Margaret W., Esther McVay
Wilma is probably Wilma Kistner, as she is the only Wilma in Barry in the 1910 census, and she is the same age as Margaret.
Right Photo: Esther McVay, Wilma Kistner, Lee Robb, Margaret Big Four May 16, 1913
Page 20
Top Row Left Photo: Teachers 1913 Miss Tipple 7 & 8, Miss Foreman 3
Middle Photo: Teaches 1913 Mr. McIntire 7 & 8, Mr.
Right Row: Teachers 1913 Miss Graves 5, Miss White 2
Bottom Row Left Photo: no identification
Middle Photo: no identification
Right Row: no identification
Page 21
Top Row Left Photo: May 16, 1913 Back row: Papa (William Watson), Aunt Elizabeth (Elizabeth Bonnell Demoine) Bret (Bret Watson, Uncle Eugene Smith (Aunt Helen's husband) Front row: Margaret Mama, Zue (Missouri Beheymer Hooper), Aunt Helen Smith
Elizabeth is Mary Elizabeth Bonnell Demoine, Uncle Eugene and Aunt Helen are Eugene and Helen Smith; Helen was Helen Bonnell before her marriage, sister to Margaret's mother. Zue is Missouri Behymer Hooper, a niece of Helen and "Mama"'s mother Amelia Mattox Bonnell. When Zue's parents died, she was raised with the Bonnell children.
Right Photo: Helen Gowdy and Eve Anna Gowdy May 11, 1913
Bottom Row Left Photo: Margaret, Helen Gowdy, Eve Anna Gowdy May 11, 1913
Right Photo: Mama, Aunt Elizabeth Bonnell Demoine May 16, 1913
Page 22
Top Row Left Photo (missing): May 28, 1913 Cousin Zue & Clat Hooper (Missouri Behemyer Hooper and her husband Clayton Hooper.)
Middle Row: Aunt Belle's house in Terre Haute, Ind. Aunt Belle was Belle Bonnell Farwell.
Right Photo: Margaret and Alberta Rice of Terre Haute
Bottom Row: May 29, 1913 Thelma (There are 2 little girls and a dog in the phot. It is not clear which one is Thelma.)
Page 23
Top Row Left Photo (missing): June 4, 1913 Mama, Morgan (the chauffeur), Bonnie Farwell, Aunt Belle Bonnell Farwell on a picnic in Indiana. Bonnie is Aunt Belle's daughter.
Right Photo: Aunt Belle (Belle Bonnell Farwell), Mama, Uncle Hart Farwell (Belle's husband) on there (sic.) porch in Terre Haute.
Bottom Row Left Photo (missing): Bonnie Farwell, Mama, Aunt Belle Bonnell Farwell, Margaret, Uncle Hart Farwell
Right Photo: June 14, 1913 Mama, Bonnie Farwell, Aunt Belle Farwell, Margaret
Page 24
Top Row Left Photo: Mama, Uncle Doc (Dr. William Wayland Bonnell), Aunt Jennie Bonnell (Jane Eberhart Smith Bonnell, Doc's wife)
Right Photo: back row: Aunt Minnie, Mama, Mrs. Jourdan; front row: Anna Louise Jourdan & Kate Jourdan June 13, 1913 Aunt Minnie is probably Minnie Peck McConnell, since she is the only Minnie in Margaret's family. Her husband was John McConnell, and another photo on this page, dated one day later, shows an Uncle John.
Bottom Row Left Photo: June 14, 1913 Rusty (the horse) and Uncle John (probably Uncle John McConnell, husband of Minnie Peck)
Right Photo: Uncle Doc and Aunt Jennie June 15, 1913 (Dr. William Wayland Bonnell and his wife Jennie Smith Bonnell.)
Page 25
Top Row Left Photo:June 13, 1913 Margaret, Russell McConnell
Middle Photo: June 10, 1913 Margaret, Aunt Belle Bonnell Farwell, Mama, Mrs. Finkly at Turkey Run (Indiana), June 11, 1913.
Right Photo: Bonnie Farwell at Turkey Run (Indiana)
Bottom Row Left Photo: June 10, 1913 Aunt Belle Bonnell Farwell, Mama, Mrs. Finkley, Bonnie Farwell at Turkey Runn (Indiana).
Middle Photo: June 10, 1913 Margaret at Turkey Run (Indiana)
Right Photo: June 13, 1913 Margaret, Russell McConnell
Page 26
Top Row Left Photo: Elizabeth Hailey
Right Photo: June 26, 1913 back row: Eve Anna Gowdy, Mrs. Gowdy, Helen Gowdy;
front row: Margaret, Hazel , Mary
Bottom Row Left Photo: June 29, 1913 Esther McVay and Margaret.
Right Photo: Margaret on a busy day. She's standing on the side of her family's home.
Page 27
This page has the first images of the woman who will marry Margaret's brother Bret. Bess Mona Palmer was born and raised in Henrietta Clay County, Texas, but had roots in Barry. Her mother, Ora Stearns, was born and raised there, and graduated from Barry High School. Her father, Robert Henry Palmer, moved to Barry as a child, graduated from Barry High School and moved to Texas for the opportunities offered there. The family visited Barry frequently and the Palmer children spent parts of their summers there with their Stearns grandparents.
Camping Pictures July 17, 1913
Top Row Left Photo: Bret Watson, Bess Palmer
Middle Photo: Bess a Snake Charmer (Bess Mona Palmer)
Right Photo: Bret Watson
Bottom Row Left Photo: Bess Palmer
Right Photo: Mrs. Hart, Bess Palmer, Eve Anna Gowdy, Loretta, Mrs. Palmer (Ora Stearns Palmer), Edna, Ruth Palmer (Bes Palmer's sister), Mrs. Gilley, Bret Watson, and Sweetums.
Page 28
July 25, 1913
Top Row Left Photo: Margaret, Ruth Palmer
Middle Photo: Bess Palmer
Right Photo: Ruth Palmer
Bottom Row Left Photo: Margaret, Ruth Palmer crocheting.
Right Photo: Margaret
Page 29
Camping
Top Row Left Photo: On a sand wagon
Right Photo: Bret Watson, Bess Palmer
Bottom Row Left Photo: Bess Palmer
Middle Photo: Out Wading
Right Photo: Bruce Palmer (Bess and Ruth's brother), Helen Dickason
Page 30
Top Row Left Photo: Ruth Palmer
Middle Photo: Margaret, Ruth Palmer
Right Photo: Bess Palmer
Bottom Row Left Photo: Margaret
Right Photo: Ruth Palmer
Page 31
Top Row Left Photo: Bruce Palmer
Right Photo: Anna, Ida, Ruth Palmer, Gertrude, Mary Croquet Party. They are standing on the southeast side of the Watson home in Barry.
Bottom Row Left Photo:Alma S., Margaret Alma S. is probably Alma Stroheker, the only Alma S. in the 1910 census. She is about Margaret's age.
Right Photo: Margaret, Bess Palmer, Edna, Ruth Palmer. They are standing on the southeast side of the Watson house in Barry. The staircase to the second floor makes a right angle turn at a landing, where the round window is.
Page 32
Top Row Left Photo: Mrs. McVay, Lucile, Mr. McVay, Margaret, Ella
Right Photo: Mr. and Mrs. Chamberlain
Bottom Row Left Photo: Miss Tipple
Right Photo: McConnell Family The man with the beard is Bunyan McConnell, husband of Mary Ann Jessie Watson, Margaret's father's stepsister.
Page 33
Top Row Left Photo: Eula Sellers and Jessie Sellers They are the daughters of Dolford Sellers and may T. McConnell, daughter of Margaret's father's stepsister, Mary Ann jessie Watson.
Right Photo: back row, left to right, Mrs. Sellers (May McConnell Sellers), Madge; front row, left to right Eula Sellers, Madge Sellers
Middle Photo; high school before completion.
Bottom Row Left Photo: (missing) Margaret, Esther
Right Photo: Jessie Sellers, Eula Sellers
Page 34
Top Row Left Photo: John Samuel Scott
Right Photo: Howard, Margaret, Henry, miss Tipple, Dorothy, lucile, edna, merida
Bottom Row Left Photo:Margaret, Esther McVay, Lucile Darley
Right Photo: Miss Tipple, Dorothy, Margaret, Ida, Helen
Page 35
Top Row Left Photo (missing): Mother
Right Photo: Margaret, Esther McVay
bottom Row Left Photo: Margaret
Right Photo: Miss Clum, Alma (Alma Stroheker?)
Page 36
Top Row Left Photo: Effie Hoaglin
Right Photo: Mothert
Bottom Row Left Photo: Ruth Palmer
Right Photo: Margaret
Page 37
California Photos (no other captions)
Page 38
Top Row Left Photo: Bret Watson, Jessie Sellers
Right Photo: Jessie Sellers
Bottom Row Left Photo: Miss Carrie McDee
Right Photo: Calloways
Page 39
Top Row Left Photo: Music club 1913-14
Right Photo: Music Club
Bottom Row Left Photo: Music Club
Right Photo: Esther McVay, Dorothy (might be Dorothy Slater), Margaret, Miss Knollenberg
Page 40
Top Row Left Photo:Sound Asleep, Esther McVay, Dorothy (Dorothy Slater?), Margaret, Miss K (Knowllenberg)
Right Photo: Pillow Fight
Bottom Row Left Photo: Jessie (There are two women in this photo, and it isn't clear which one is Jessie.)
Right Photo: Mrs. McVay
Page 41
Top Row Left Photo (missing): Bess Palmer, Mr. Weber
Right Photo: Margaret, Mary Ware
Bottom Row Left Photo: Russell (probably Russell McConnell)
Right Photo: Eula Sellers, Margaret, Russell McConnell
Page 42
Top Row Left Photo (missing)
Right Photo:Sue & Mary Easley, Esther McVay
Bottom Row Left Photo: Sophia Strubinger
Right Photo: Mrs. Arntz
Page 43
Top Row Left Photo: Easther 1914 Crowd at Esther Chamberlain's
Right Photo:
Bottom Row Left Photo: Easter morning. Margaret is on the far left.
Right Photo:
Page 44
Top Row Left Photo: Ceremonial Costume. Margaret, Alma Stroheker
Right Photo: Coming Home from Camp Whelo
Bottom Row Left Photo: Eve Anna Gowdy
Right Photo: Camp Scene
Page 45
Top Row Left Photo:
Right Photo:
Bottom Row Left Photo:
Right Photo:
Page 46
Top Row Left Photo: Wilma Kistner, Pearl, Alma Stroheker
Middle Photo: Dining Tent
Right Photo: Pearl, Helen
'Page 47
Top Row Left Photo: Decoration Day 1914 Margaret, Jessie, Maryanne
Right Photo:George Wike, Margaret holding the flag, Esther McVay holding the torch. Night before 3rd exam, Freshman year
Bottom Row Left Photo: Snowbanks (in downtown Barry) February 16, 1914.
Right Photo: Margaret
Page 48
Top Row Left Photo: Alma Stroheker, Margaret
Right Photo: Crowd in Quincy
Bottom Row Left Photo: Chautauqua 1913
Right Photo: Crowd in Quincy on Bridge Across Mississippi
Page 49
Top Row Left Photo: Blanche Buskurke, Helen Gowdy
Right Photo (missing): Watson's
Bottom Row Left Photo (missing): Floyd hendricks, Wilna Kistner, Zepha Welton
Margaret, Walter Hess
Right Photo (missing): Alma Stroheker
Page 50
Top Row Left Photo: Jesse Mangrum
Right Photo: Margaret, Wilma Kistner
Middle Row Middle Photo: Margaret, Esther McVay
Right Photo: Edwin Sykes, Loy Barnes
Bottom Row Left Photo: SE, MW (probably Merida Ware), DS, WK, LB,
Middle Photo: Lee Robb, Margaret, Wilma Kistner
Right Photo: D.S., W.K. (probably Wilma Kistner), S.E., l.B., L. R. (probably Lee Robb), M.W. (Margaret Watson), L. G.
Page 51
Top Row Left Photo: Idella Waters, Margaret
Right Photo: Bess Palmer and ?
Bottom Row Left Photo: Russell McConnell
Right Photo: Eula Sellers
Page 52
Top Row Right Photo: Mr. and Mrs. Sellers & roomers, Urbana, Illinois (Dolford Sellers and his wife May McConnell Sellers)
Right Photo (missing):Margaret
Page 53
Top Row Left Photo: Olive Hendrick, Edith Easley
Right Photo (missing); Sophomore Class 1914-15
Bottom Row Left Photo: Anna Ware, Gladys Coffman, Esther McVay, Margaret, Esther McVay
Right Photo: Madge Sellers, Jessie Sellers
Page 54
Top Row Left Photo: Gladys Coffman, Esther McVay, Anna Ware, Margaret, Sophia Strubinger
Right Photo: Merida Ware
Bottom Row Left Photo: Margaret and Billy (William Walcott Watson II, son of Margaret's brother Bret) This photo was taken after 20 Feb 1915, when Billy was born.
Right Photo:Lowell House, Sophia Strubinger, Louis Strubinger, Esther McVay
Page 55
Top Row Left Photo: Esther McVay, Sophia Strubinger, Margaret, Lowell House
Right Photo: Lowell House, Sophia Strubinger, Louis Strubinger, Esther McVay
Bottom Row Left Photo: Louis Strubinger, Margaret, Lowell House, Sophia Strubinger
Right Photo: Esther McVay, Margaret
Page 56
Top Row Left Photo: Louis Strubinger, Gay Ware
Right Photo: Louis Strubinger, Esther McVay
Bottom Row Left Photo: Sophia Strubinger, Lowell house, Esther McVay, Louie/Louis Strubinger
Right Photo: Louis Strubinger, Esther McVay
Page 57
The photos on this page were taken during Margaret's trip to Henrietta, Clay County, Texas, probably in May 1914. Margaret's brother bret married Bess Mona Palmer at her parents home there on 26 May 1914. Margaret and Bess's sister ruth became good friends. Ruth palmer's photo album has many photos that are similar to ones in Margaret's album.
Top Row Left Photo: Bruce Palmer, Ruth Palmer, 1914
Right Photo: Palmers (The home of Robert Henry Palmer and his wife, Ora Stearns Palmer, in Henrietta, Clay County, Texas.
Bottom Row Left Photo: Ruth Palmer
Right Photo: Ruth Palmer in front of her home.
Page 58
Wichita Falls, Texas 23 July 1915 This page and the next have photos taken on a trip to a lake near Wichita Falls. While the lake is named on page 59, its name has faded to illegibility.
Mamie Kae Nutter and Mattie Ruth Corlett lived in Henrietta in the 1910 census, and were probably friends of Ruth Palmer.
Top Row Left Photo: in the car: Ruth Palmer, Bruce
in front of the car: Margaret, Mamie Kae Nutter, Mattie Ruth Cutlett
Right Photo: Mattie Ruth Cutlett, Margaret, Bruce Palmer, Ruth, Mattie Ruth Cutlett
Bottom Row Left Photo: Ruth Palmer, Margaret, Bruce Palmer, Mamie Kae Nutter, Mattie Ruth Cutlett
Right Photo: Margaret, Mamie Rae Nutter, Mattie Ruth Cutlett, Bruce Palmer
Page 59
Wichita Falls, Texas 23 July 1915 This page and the preceding one have photos taken on a trip to a lake near Wichita Falls. While the lake is named on page 59, its name has faded to illegibility.
Mamie Kae Nutter, Mattie Ruth Corlett and Cora Neville lived in Henrietta in the 1910 census, and were probably friends of Ruth Palmer.
Top Row Left Photo: Margaret, Mamie Kae Nutter
Right Photo: Ruth Palmer, Mattie Ruth Corlett
Bottom Row Left Photo: Margaret, Mamie Kae Nutter & ? (the dog's name is illegible)
Right Photo: Margaret, Cora Neville
Page 60
Top Row Left Photo: Mrs. Palmer (Ora Stearns Palmer), Margaret, Mrs Boddy, Bruce Palmer,
There were two Boddy families in Clay County in the 1910 census, one in Henrietta (Hazel and his wife Anna) and the other (P.H. and his wife Willie) on a ranch. Since another photo on this page is labeled Boddy's Ranch, the Mrs. Boddy in this photo might be Mrs. Willie Boddy.
Middle Photo: Margaret and Ruth Palmer as Charlie Chaplin
Right Photo; Ruth Palmer and Margaret at Boddy's Ranch
Bottom Row Left Photo: Margaret
Right Photo: Margaret
Page 61
Top Row Left Photo: back row Gladys S., Sophia S., Margaret; front row Henry W., Loraine
Gladys and Sophia might be Gladys Staudinger born 1896, Sophia Staudinger and Loraine Staudinger born 1894 (according to the 1900 in the 1910 census). Henry W. is probably Henry Wendorff.
Right Photo:
Bottom Row Left Photo:
Right Photo: Margaret on the far left
Page 62
Top Row Left Photo:
Right Photo: Margaret is on the left
Bottom Row Left Photo:
Right Photo:
Page 63
The photos have no captions.
Page 64
The top photos are unidentified.
The bottom two photos show the pround Palmer and Watson families holding their first grandchild, William Walcott Watson.
Bottom Left Photo: Back row Bruce Palmer, Ruth Palmer, William Walcott Watson (Margaret's father), Bessie Stearns (Ora's sister). Sitting Ora Stearns Palmer, Bess Palmer Watson holding her son William Walcott Watson II, Margaret Bonnell Watson.
Right Photo: from left to right ? (might be Helen Bonnell Smith), Margaret's mother Margaret Bonell Watson, baby William Walcott Watson, Margaret Watson, Ora Stearns Palmer, ?, Bruce Palmer, Ruth Palmer
Page 65
Slumber Party Henrietta, Texas
Top Row Left Photo: Grace Hapgood, Ruth Ford, Rena Morris, Ruth Palmer, Vera Cook,
Una Mae Coleman, Cora Neville, Margaret, Mamie Kae Nutter
Right Photo: Una Mae Coleman, Mamie Kae Nutter, Grace Hapgood, Vera Cook, Rena Morris, Ruth Palmer, Ruth Ford, Margaret, Cora Neville, , Floy Mae Ford
Bottom Row Left Photo: back row Floy Mae Ford, Una Mae Coleman, Rena Morris, Mamie Kae Nutter, Ruth Ford, Vera Cook
lying on the ground Grace Hapgood, Ruth Palmer, Margaret, Cora Neville
Right Photo: Rena Morris (head just above the bush), Mamie Kae Nutter, Cora Neville, Ruth Ford., Una Mae Coleman, Floy Mae Ford, Ruth Palmer, Grace Hapgood, Vera Cook
Margaret is peeking out from the bushes on the lower left.
Page 66
Top Row Left Photo: The same group of girls in the photos on page 65. Margaret is on another girl's shoulders and the boy is Bruce Palmer. Ruth Palmer is the second girl from the right, with her left hand outstretched.
Middle Photo: Cora Nevill and Vera Cook
Left Photo: The girls again. Ruth Palmer is the fourth girl from the left, with another girl's hand on her left shoulder. Bruce Palmer is the boy wearing the derby.
The photos on the bottom row are unlabeled.
Page 67
The people in these photos aren't identified. The two on the top of the page were taken in Margaret's home, by the staircase that leads to the second floor.
Page 68
None of the photos on this page have labels.
Page 69
None of these photos are labeled.
Page 70
These photos were taken on a trip to Henrietta, Texas.
Top Row Left Photo: Ora Stearns Palmer and her husband, Robert Henry Palmer, in front of their home in Henrietta, Texas.
Right Photo: cattle washing
Bottom Row Left Photo: Margaret, Ruth Palmer, Bruce Palmer
Right Photo: Texas cattle.
Page 71
These photos were taken on a visit to Henrietta, Texas.
Top Row Left Photo: cattle roundup
Right Photo:? and Margaret (standing)
Bottom Row Left Photo: Three unidentified girls and Margaret (standing by the tree).
Right Photo: cattle roundup
Page 72
Cattle roundup in Henrietta, Texas
Page 73
These are more photos of the cattle roundup near Henrietta, Texas.
Page 74
None of the photos on this page are labeled.
Top Row Left Photo:
Right Photo: Margaret standing on a train track. This photo is eerie because a few years later Margaret was with a group of young adults who drove a car into a train when coming home from a party in Jacksonville. You don't need a radio or a cell phone to be distracted while driving. An excited group of people is distraction enough.
Bottom Row Left Photo:
Right Photo:
Page 75
None of the photos on this page are labeled, though they were clearly taken in Barry.
Page 76
Top Row Left Photo:
Right Photo:
Bottom Row Left Photo: William Watson III and his sister, Roberta Watson
Middle Photo: William Watson III
Right Photo: William Watson III and his sister, Roberta Watson
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