MISSOURI

Missouri Vacation circa 1961

One of grandpa's videos, circa 1961 titled

"Missouri & Vacation"

What I can see:

• driving shots, farm shots, Jesse & Ross?, Gail, house shots
• someone arriving, plucking chicken, new garage, smoking barrel (cooking?), trucks
• Inside: too dark to see faces
• bridge, __ on horse, bridge, driving, stopped on a country road with hills
• M.E. on porch with cat

Here are three clips from a video labeled "Family Film 015", apparently from the same date:

What I can see from clip 1, above:

• driving shots: roadside building, fields, water tower, roads, bridge, hills, roads, mountains, roads, pastures

What I can see from clip 2, above:

• driving shots: roads & mountains, houses, cemeteries
• at 1:39, Sharon, Vera, Gary, ? Donny, ?, others, Jesse
• Outside: cold, getting into cars
• 2:17, driving shots
• stuck? cars, bridge
• Wampler Cemetery, Johnson Co., MO: Mayme M. & William O. Gowin

What I can see from clip 3, above:

• Wampler Cemetery: graves of Oliver E. & Anna E. Drinkwater, John T. & Monema Drinkwater
• Farm shots, brown & white cows, tractor, dirt road, black & white pigs
• white house
• kids bundled up in coats/hats
• Gary holding goose?
• framing a building
• pulling out
• driving shots
• @3:11, abandoned brick building "Montserrat"

Wampler Cemetery, Johnson County, Missouri (map here):

John T. Drinkwater, M.E.'s grandfather

Finis Elza Drinkwater, M.E.'s uncle
died at 7 months

Inscription on the opposite side of John T & Monema's gravestone: 

All the plans of life are broken, All the hopes of life are fled, Counsel, comfort, and adviser, Alas, Alas, for thou are dead. 

Oliver E. Drinkwater and Anna E. Drinkwater, M.E. Drinkwater's parents

James Gordon Gowin,
M.E.'s cousin died as a baby

Mayme M. Gowin & William O. Gowin, M.E.'s aunt & uncle

Margaret P. Drinkwater Butler, M.E.'s great aunt

Warrensburg, Missouri, early 1950s

Ross Drinkwater's home in Warrensburg, Missouri early 1950s

Ross Drinkwater (M.E.'s older brother), Anna Geary Drinkwater
(M.E.'s mother), M.E. Drinkwater, early 1950s