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

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.

CHILDREN OF OLLIE & ANNA 1943

Grown children of Ollie Drinkwater and Anna Geary

in Warrensville, Johnson County, Missouri 1943

M.E. & Jesse Drinkwater

                                           Ross & Caddie Drinkwater

                                 Mayme & William Gowin

                                                                                                John "D." & Flo Drinkwater              

Lawrence & Fannie Bartles

Children of Oliver Elza Drinkwater and Anna Elizabeth [Geary] Drinkwater include:

1. Minor Earl Drinkwater (pictured)
2. Ross Wilbur Drinkwater (pictured)
3. Mayme/Mamie Marie [Drinkwater] Gowin (pictured)
4. Eva Valentine [Drinkwater] Austin
5. Fannie Lee [Drinkwater] Bartles (pictured)
6. John Geary Drinkwater (pictured)
7. Myrtle Blanche [Drinkwater] Hanna
8. Lloyde Harvey Drinkwater (died at age 8)
9. Mary Monema [Drinkwater] Monahan
10. Finis Elza Drinkwater (died in infancy)

The sister in the middle could be Mayme, Eva, Blanche, or Monema.  

Update:  

another image found from the same day, and this one was labeled!

Capt Jack, Fannie, Ross, Mame, John D
1943 Warrensurg 

Warrensburg Family Reunion, 1943
Warrensburg, Johnson County, Missouri

M.E. & Jessie Drinkwater
1943 Warrensburg