Posted on: VanBuren Co. Ia Query Forum Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Ia/VanBuren/11340 Surname: HALES, BENNETT, MILLER ------------------------- Gene Here is the url for the photo. It's located on the Van Buren Co home page under the Old Photos section for Mt Sterling. http://www.rootsweb.com/~iavanbur/oldphotos_mtst.htm I only know a few in this photo and they are L-R Ernest Madden my dad and I think he was maybe 12 years old which would make the photo around 1919 or 1920. Then there are some distant cousins the Bennett children probably the oldest, Lillie May, Lloyd Thomas, Ellen Caroline, Madeline Isabel. The gentleman in front is not known to me, but the lady in the wheelchair is Allice Mae Miller Hales and the man holding the wheelchair is her husband Thomas Franklin Hales according to my mother. The couple on the right side are John Robert and Emma Pettit Madden. The others I have no idea. Yes, I have heard others say Allie Mae was a large woman and my mother says her sister Tunie Miller who is my g grandmother was also large. Allie looks in the picture like she could have been cantankerous, but I've never heard anyone say that about her at all and my mother thinks Grandma Tunie was a saint. It would be great if you could download this picture and open it in something you can magnify it in. You can get a good look at the person at the very top even. If I knew them, I could definitely identify them. I would send you a jpg or bmp if you like. I was glad I could see the people, but wish there could be more of the church in view. It burned at some time later. I wonder if any records were saved. I would like to know more of the details about it. You had told me about your photo in earlier correspondances. It really sounds wonderful and I would love to see it naturally. I am sure Rich would post it too should you care to do so. Maybe someone online would recognize some of the people. Also, I could download it and show it to my mother who may know several of those people. This is what I was hoping that if anyone recognized anyone in my photo, they would let me know the identity. I have another question for you, I was looking through the Hales Chronicles online and it lists the several Hugh Hales in our line with spouses and I'm wondering if you know whether they are correct. I would like to be able to put them in my database. http://hales.org/chronicles.html Thanks very much. Marian Cox