This photo comes from Linda Sheeler who got it from Susan Shea who got it from somebody else.
I've seen no other pictures of my great-grandfather, so I'll assume the man in the picture is Ben Ford. The girl on the left is MaeLouise. The woman on the left is her mother Louise Cogbill Ford. The woman in plaid is Octavia Lutes Ford. Here is a photo from a few years later with Octavia on the left.
The woman next to Ben Ford looks to me to be his daughter, Mabel Ford Kinney. Here is a picture of Mabel:
The boy appears to be Mabel's son, Abbott Kinney. If we assume this picture was taken about 1919, then Mae Louise was about 5 and Abbott was approaching 10. The information that came with the photo identified the other girl as Vera. Vera Marx was two years younger than MaeLouise, so the age is about right. However, I wonder why Vera might have been in Arkansas, where this picture was presumably taken (it says it was taken in Wynn, AR, which is quite a ways from Chicot county, where Ben Ford lived for the most part from 1910 onward.) And if Vera were there, her mother Alma would have been there, too, and might have been in the picture.
Here is a picture of the Kinney Boys, Abbott and Gilbert. I believe this was taken in 1925 and the baby is my mother, Aline Beeson. She seems too old for this to be on the occasion of Ben Ford's funeral in January 1925. She tells me she didn't return to Arkansas after the funeral, but if Marjorie (holding the baby) was there, Aline probably would have been too. If the other girl is a family member, the only one whose age would be right would be Homer's daughter, Virginia.
Here's another picture of the two boys with Marjorie.
I've seen no other pictures of my great-grandfather, so I'll assume the man in the picture is Ben Ford. The girl on the left is MaeLouise. The woman on the left is her mother Louise Cogbill Ford. The woman in plaid is Octavia Lutes Ford. Here is a photo from a few years later with Octavia on the left.
The woman next to Ben Ford looks to me to be his daughter, Mabel Ford Kinney. Here is a picture of Mabel:
The boy appears to be Mabel's son, Abbott Kinney. If we assume this picture was taken about 1919, then Mae Louise was about 5 and Abbott was approaching 10. The information that came with the photo identified the other girl as Vera. Vera Marx was two years younger than MaeLouise, so the age is about right. However, I wonder why Vera might have been in Arkansas, where this picture was presumably taken (it says it was taken in Wynn, AR, which is quite a ways from Chicot county, where Ben Ford lived for the most part from 1910 onward.) And if Vera were there, her mother Alma would have been there, too, and might have been in the picture.
Here is a picture of the Kinney Boys, Abbott and Gilbert. I believe this was taken in 1925 and the baby is my mother, Aline Beeson. She seems too old for this to be on the occasion of Ben Ford's funeral in January 1925. She tells me she didn't return to Arkansas after the funeral, but if Marjorie (holding the baby) was there, Aline probably would have been too. If the other girl is a family member, the only one whose age would be right would be Homer's daughter, Virginia.
Here's another picture of the two boys with Marjorie.
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