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Liberal Prize Winners, Liberal Missouri, July 4 1904
I tried adjusting the color a little and making it a little bigger. This photo was originally up at the late Barbara Irwin’s web page on Liberal, given as from Connie King’s Collection. Looks like a July 4th celebration with 3 winning buggies. I wonder who they were and what building it is we’re seeing…
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Catalpa Park, Liberal, Missouri
From Connie King’s Collection I tried adjusting the color a little and enlarging. This photo was originally up at the late Barbara Irwin’s web page on Liberal, given as from Connie King’s Collection. Catalpa Park has long since ceased to exist. The big spiritualist events that drew people from around the nation were held here.
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United Methodist Church, Liberal, Missouri
Photo courtesy of Nancy Benton.
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Catherine Hedden Brewer
Courtesy of Nancy Benton This is Catherine Hedden born Feb 21 1822 in Shelby County, Kentucky, who married first Daniel Levi Brewer (our ancestor) and then John Foster. She died May 23, 1903 in Greenfield, Dade, Missouri. I’m having difficulty ascertaining when the photo might have been taken. In the early 1890s? If it was…
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Catherine Hedden Brewer and Rachel Jane Brewer Henderson
Feeble attempt at retouching This photo of Catherine Hedden Brewer with daughter Rachel Jane Brewer Henderson was supplied by Everett Henderson Jr. and is believed to have been taken in the 1880s. Rachel Jane Brewer, bo. 1852 Oct 6 in Terra Haute, Vigo, Indiana, married Atwell Henderson August 29 1866 in Moultrie County, Illinois. About…
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Daniel Levi Brewer
Original courtesy of Nancy Benton This is a nice example of messed up. I did the photoshopped reconstructions many years ago and as one can see I was working off an extremely degraded image and trying to see what “might” have been. What “might” have the man been like in it. What “might” have the…
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Marriage License of Catherine Hedden Brewer and John Foster
Catherine Hedden married first Daniel Levi Brewer on March 30 1843 in Kentucky. He died April 20 1868 in Osage Mission, Neosho, Kansas. On Dec 26 1869, in Neosho county, Kansas, she married 2nd John W. Foster. He had been previously married to Hannah Oury who had died 1868 Jan 31 in Neosho county, Kansas.…
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Daniel Levi Brewer and Catherine Hedden
Daniel Levi BREWER was born 25 September 1823 in Mercer Co. KY, the 8th of 9 children, and the last of 4 sons born to Daniel A. BREWER Sr. of KY and Nancy SMITH. Nancy was 28 and Daniel Sr. was 29 when Daniel Levi was born. Daniel married Catherine HEDDEN on 30 March 1843…
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Betty Brewer Noyes at 14
Photoshopped to remove yellow cast makes it a little clearer Betty Brewer at 14 years of age Courtesy of Nancy Benton Elizabeth Jane “Bettie” Brewer was born 1877 in Liberal, Barton, Missouri to David Nathaniel Brewer and Delana L. Jane Fowler. In 1895, she married Ray Noyes, son of James Allen Noyes and Caroline Atwell.…
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Photo of Delana Fowler Brewer with Flowers
Courtesy of Nancy Benton Delana Louise Fowler Brewer, daughter of John B. Fowler b. 1827 and Mary Jane Johnson b. 1832 married David Nathaniel Brewer. She was born 1854 at Bloomington, McLean, Illinois and died 1939 at Oscaloosa, Dade, Missouri.