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

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.