Oh I just love that old photo. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Donna Cooper" <saarisr@sbcglobal.net> To: <MOBARRY-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, November 04, 2007 1:54 PM Subject: [MOBARRY] Featured Photo > > Good Morning: Our featured photo for the week is one that Linda Stephens > McCormick sent us of the Eagle Rock swinging bridge. This is such a great > photo that I could not pass it up for a featured photo. The detail of this > 1908 post card photo is really great. > > I enlarged it on my 22 inch monitor and counted nine people on the bridge > and these folks are supposed to have been from Purdy. I wonder who they > were > And there are people sitting on the ground, too. It looks like there is a > man and woman and 4 children and also a woman and 2 children on the ground > and it is hard to tell but I think that there is one person in the water. > Both woman on the ground are wearing sun bonnets. > > Darla Marbut said that many people used to go there to the bridge area for > picnics and that they'd have baptisms there, too. Dane Martin told me that > he remembered the bridge well and that he'd crossed it many times. He said > the thought that it was probably there until the 1960's but he wasn't sure > about that. > > Thanks so much for sharing this wonderful old photo with us, Linda! Photos > like this add so much to our understanding of Barry County and to to our > files here at Barry. > > http://www.rootsweb.com/~mobarry/oddsnends/bryfams.htm > > Donna Cooper > > > Please tell us about your Barry county ancestors. The list-admin is Donna > Cooper, address - (saarisr@sbcglobal.net) > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > MOBARRY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message