List Readers: Our featured photo for the coming week is one that John Shiels sent us. Besides the genealogical value of this nice old photo there is the historical significants attached to the garments that these ladies are wearing. If you enjoy looking at old photos and like to look at the old-fashioned garments you will enjoy this photo. Will F. Simes of Monett was the photographer. He was located 3rd and Broadway on the Opera House block. Present day Wommack Monument is located at 201 West Broadway so I guess that they must have been one block from there. John Shiels had this to say about the photo - These are four of the five daughters of Missouri settlers George and Margaret Shiels. There is no date on the photo. You can see it was taken at the Simes studio in downtown Monett. Seated is Nina Shiels Maiden, born 1877. I believe she married a guy named Maiden in Missouri but the marriage didn't last long. Standing left to right as best as I can tell is Jessie Shiels Gillespie, born 1880, Margaret W. Shiels, born 1870, and Elizabeth Shiels Collins, born 1878. Missing from the picture is Annie Shiels, the oldest of the nine children of George and Margaret. She was born in 1868. The youngest, Jessie, was the only child born in Missouri; all the others had been born in Scotland. All of these ladies eventually moved to and died in Washington State but have markers at Waldensian Cemetery. http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mobarry/oddsnends/bryfams.htm Thanks, John, for sharing with us. Have a good Sunday and try and stay cool today. Donna Cooper