Evermore Genealogy

Month: August 2010

  • Lloyd McKenney as Child

    Lloyd McKenney as Child

    A beautiful photo from 1909-1910 that shows ancestor Lloyd Clinton McKenney as a child, and a happy one at that. The photo would have been likely taken in Chautauqua County, Kansas, where the family lived. Lloyd was the son of James Albert McKenney and Vera Crockett.

  • Dorothy Noyes McKenney in the 1940s

    Dorothy Noyes McKenney in the 1940s

    Courtesy Nancy Benton

  • Basketball Team, Liberal, Missouri, 1909

    Basketball Team, Liberal, Missouri, 1909

    Photoshopped Original The bottom photo is from the late Barbara Irwin’s page on Liberal, Missouri which is no longer available. I worked with it some restoring it, and it happened to come out really well. What we have here is the Liberal High School basketball team in 1909, photographed at Fritts Studio. The backdrop is…

  • James Allen Noyes and granddaughter Pansy

    James Allen Noyes and granddaughter Pansy

    James Allen Noyes strolls with granddaughter Pansy Noyes, eldest child and daughter of Ray Noyes and Bettie Brewer. I’m guessing the photo is from about 1900 when Pansy would have been 5 years of age. James Allen would have been about 74. This photo would have been taken in Liberal, Barton County, Missouri.

  • Photo of Phillip Rowe, husband of Eliza Ann Noyes

    Photo of Phillip Rowe, husband of Eliza Ann Noyes

    Phillip Rowe, original, courtesy of Nancy Benton Yellow cast removed The photographer of the above photo was J. I. Kent at 18 (looks like) State Street in Rochester, New York. Phillips Rowe, b. abt. 1825 in New Jersey, was the husband of Eliza Ann Noyes, daughter of James Noyes and Rebecca Russell, Eliza being a…

  • Image of Grain Elevator at Liberal, Missouri

    Image of Grain Elevator at Liberal, Missouri

    Grain Elevators at Liberal, Missouri, photoshopped Original An image of a grain elevator at Liberal, Missouri that I photoshopped to try to make it a bit more vivid. One can make out barely the railroad running in front. The original image above was once on Barbara Irwin’s Liberal page (no longer maintained), and gave C.…

  • Chautauqua School, Chautauqua, Kansas, circa 1907-1908

    Chautauqua School, Chautauqua, Kansas, circa 1907-1908

    The photo is from “History of Chautauqua County” and is said to be the fifth and sixth grade classes at Chautauqua (Springs) School “probably about 1910”. The identification of the pupils isn’t in order, and lists them as being 6th grade: Opal McKenzie, Cassie McKenney, Russel Jack, Lee Callahan, Lou Anderson, Ed Hessert, Ducan McFarlain,…

  • Elizabeth Noyes Lovett

    Elizabeth Noyes Lovett

    Original photo courtesy of Nancy Benton. Attempt at some restoration Added a little color to see what the effect would be. This photo of Elizabeth, a daguerreotype, would have been taken somewhere in the late 1840s to about 1850. Perhaps it was made in 1848, at the time of her husband’s death. Or was it…

  • Liberal, Missouri 1914  Fire Insurance Map

    Liberal, Missouri 1914 Fire Insurance Map

    Missouri Digital Heritage has a 1914 Liberal Missouri Fire Insurance Map of the business district. It’s difficult to navigate as in the enlargement it doesn’t show the full map, only a small portion at a time, so I took one of the larger thumbnails, in which you can’t read the businesses, and enlarged that and…

  • Sarah Melissa Noyes

    Sarah Melissa Noyes

    The date is not noted for the photo. I would guess that it’s early 1860s. Interestingly, she appears to be wearing several rings on her left hand. It’s a wonderful photo with the detail of her belt, and other decoration such as the ribbon about her neck. Perhaps that is a sewing basket upon which…