Grant Parish School Picutre ca. 1900
Submitted to USGENWEB by Donna J. Richmond
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The older woman on the left is my great-great grandmother, Martha Amanda
Newman Walker (b9/27/1845, d 11/24/1919).  The younger woman on the top
holding the small child is her daughter Janie Elizabeth (Bettie) Walker
Hataway (b. 3/23/1878, d 2/6/1964).  The child she is holding may be my
grandmother, Ava Hataway (McBride).  The little girl, second from the right on
the first row is Josie Slater (Till), (b. 1896) (We've mostly based the date
of the picture on her).  Everybody who looks at the picture immediately
focuses on her, "That's Josie Till", apparently her looks didn't change much
at all. Beyond that, we aren't sure.  My mother can look at this and say those
are Arringtons, and those are Hataways, etc, but which Arrington or Hataway
nobody's really sure. 

We know it is Grant Parish because of the people we have identified.  Two of
the girls are holding up slates, but when I enlarged the picture on my
scanner, the slates just have "Happy School" written on them.  I'd love to be
able to get the picture out to see if we can identify more of the kids. We
know there are Walkers, Slaters, Hataways and Arringtons. 



Does anyone recognize any of the other people? Let us know!