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

OBITUARY: ANNA ELIZABETH [GEARY] DRINKWATER

Anna, about 1900

1941 in Verdunville

February 9, 1956

Anna Elizabeth (Geary) Drinkwater died 82 years old on Thu. ___ P.M. at her son, Ross Drinkwater's home at 620 Highland Ave., Warrensburg, Mo., Johnson Co., after a brief illness. 
She had had reasonably good health until this week.
Funeral at 2pm at Cumberland Presbyterian Church by Rev. W.D. Waman, burial at Wampler Cemetery, north of Knobnoster. 
Pallbearers were Charles, Jack and Arthur Drinkwater of Plaquemine, La., Gene Drinkwater of K.C., Harold Bartles of Knobnoster, and Sam Hanna of Clinton, Mo., all grandsons.

She was married to Oliver Drinkwater (cousins) of Sedalia, Mo., Apr. 9, 1891, and spent all their married life 3 miles north of Montserrat, Mo.
She was born 12-19-1871 at Lebanon, daughter of Luke and Mary (Bales) Geary.  Mr. Drinkwater died 1926 and she lived with the 

• 3 surviving sons: Ross, Earl and John Drinkwater, and 
• five daughters: Mrs. Mayme Gowin, Mrs. Fannie Bartles of Knobnoster, Mrs. Eva Austin & Mrs. Myrtle Hanna of Clinton, Mrs. Monema Monahan of K.C., 
• 25 grandchildren, 
• 40 great grandchildren, 
• 1 sister: Mrs. C.E. Arnold of Holden, 
• 2 brothers: Harve of Holden and Quincy of Richmond, Va.

Transcribed from Joseph Bales and his Family Trails (1977) from an unknown source.

OLIVER ELZA DRINKWATER & FAMILY

Oliver Elza Drinkwater
Ross Wilbur Drinkwater
Anna Geary Drinkwater
Mayme M. Drinkwater
(Baby)
Parents and brother +
sister of
M.E. Drinkwater

This fabulous family photo was scanned from Uncle Art's collection; the handwriting on the back of the image is Grandma Jesse's.

WAMPLER CEMETERY, Johnson County, Missouri

JOHN T.
DRINKWATER
BORN
Mar 8, 1822
DIED
Dec 18, 1895
----
MONEMA
Wife of J.T.
DRINKWATER
BORN
Nov 11, 1833

DRINKWATER

OLIVER E. 

DRINKWATER

1866-1926

ANNA E. 

DRINKWATER 

1878-1956

FINIS E.
???can you read this???
DRINKWATER
NOV 4 1916
JUNE 13 1917

Finis Elza Drinkwater was the 10th & final child of Oliver Elza Drinkwater and Anna Elizabeth [Geary] Drinkwater.  He lived only 7 months.  Sometimes his name is written as Elmo Drinkwater.  

GOWIN
MAYME M.      WILLIAM O.
Nov. 6, 1893     Nov 14, 1889
Dec 16, 1956      June 29 1971

Mayme Marie [Drinkwater] Gowin was the 2nd child of Oliver Elza Drinkwater and Anna Elizabeth [Geary] Drinkwater after Ross Wilbur Drinkwater, and their eldest daughter.

B
at rest
MOTHER
MARGARET P.
DRINKWATER
1860-1924
BUTLER

Margaret Palestine [Drinkwater] Applegate Butler was the third child of John Thurston Drinkwater and Monema O. [Bales] Drinkwater.  She married Benjamine Lawrence Applegate in 1880 and then Walker Butler in 1890.

1905/1906 OLLIE'S IN-LAWS

These headshots are taken from a larger image, taken in Missouri of Oliver Elza Drinkwater's family, about 1905 or 1906.

Luke Geary
Oliver's father-in-law, born 1848

Mary Jane [Bales] Geary
Oliver's mother-in-law, born 1854

Harvey Geary
Oliver's brother-in-law, born 1879

Anna Elizabeth [Geary] Drinkwater ?
Oliver's wife, born 1873

O.E.DRINKWATER'S FAMILY: MISSOURI 1905/6

This lovely photo makes me long for family reunions on the riverbank where I can sit on the dirt in my fancy light-colored dress for photos.  Then I can go home and handwash my dress superclean because it's the only one I have that's nice enough for church.  Those were the days....

#19 was marked as Mayme Drinkwater Gowin and #20 as Anna Elizabeth Geary (Mayme's mother)
I think perhaps these are not correct, and hoped maybe they were just switched.

#19

#20

Anna Geary (approx age 27) from: Luke Geary's Family
ca.1900, before the reunion photo above

Anna [Geary] Drinkwater (approximate age 22) from:

Oliver Elza Drinkwater & Family ca.1895

I think #19 resembles this image of Anna on the left (which is why I had switched the names on the large image above).
The image on the right of a much younger Anna can (thankfully) be matched to the one on the left, but I don't see matching it to either #19 or #20 in the reunion photo.

Anna, in 1905/6 would have been about 33 years old.

I suppose it's possible that neither of these women is Anna or Mayme....

Does anyone have other images of Anna or Mayme to help sort this out?

Update:

here is a shot of Mayme from a group photo in 1943 (aged ~50)

  

Hmmm. I'm not sure that helped at all.

Labeled individuals in the Missouri reunion photo:

1. Monema Bales Drinkwater
     (Oliver’s mother)
2. James Robert (Jim Bob) Drinkwater
     (Oliver’s ½1/2  brother , born 1850)
3. Sarah Sarina Drinkwater Harter
     (Oliver’s sister, born 1855)
4. Edward Harvey Brown Drinkwater
     (Oliver’s brother, born 1857)
5. Margaret Palestine Drinkwater
     Applegate Butler
     (Oliver’s sister, born 1860)
6. William (Bill) Henry Drinkwater
     (Oliver’s brother, born 1863)
7. Oliver Elza Drinkwater (born 1866)
8. Frances (Fannie) Susan Drinkwater
     (Oliver’s sister, born 1869)
9. Rosa Lee Drinkwater Blevins
     (Oliver’s sister, born 1897)
10. Ada Lawrence Applegate Butler
     (dau of Margaret P.)
11. William Scott Butler
     (husband of Ada Lawrence)
12. Marguerite Butler
     (dau of Ada Lawrence, born ~1905)
13. Leonard Drinkwater
     (son of William Henry)
14. Leo Drinkwater
     (son of William H.)
15. Harry Jennings Drinkwater
     (son of William H.)
16. Luke Geary
     (Oliver’s father-in-law, born 1848)
17. Mary Jane Bales Geary
     (Oliver’s mother-in-law, born 1854)
18. Harvey Geary
     (Oliver’s brother-in-law, born 1879)
19. Anna Elizabeth Geary  ???
     (Oliver’s Wife, born 1873)
20. Mayme Drinkwater Guwin ???
     (dau of Oliver, born 1893)
21. Eva Valentine Drinkwater
     (dau of Oliver, born 1899)
22.  Jack Drinkwater
     (son of Oliver, born 1901)
23. Fannie Lee Drinkwater
     (dau of Oliver, born 1903)
24. Marian Blevins
     (dau of Rosa Lee)
25. Luther Skidmore

LUKE GEARY'S FAMILY

I'm guessing this image was taken ca. 1900, which would make:

• Luke          52 years old
• Mary Jane  46 years old
• Anna         27 years old
• Fannie       23 years old
• Harvey      21 years old
• Quinn        unknown (I don't have his birthdate)

PHOTO PEDIGREE OF M.E. DRINKWATER

Photo pedigree of M.E. Drinkwater back two generations

Not sure I got the headshot of Anna correct.  See the discussion at the source photo post.