Republic Monitor, February 6, 1975, 4 of 11

Photo 01: Faucett Family Reunion. Taken in Lawrence County Missouri. On the back row in the middle is Grandpa George FOSSETT (he is to the left of the man holding a blond baby.) His wife, Grandma Lizzie WOOLSEY FOSSETT, is sitting on the second row holding Lora (whose head is blurred). Lora was born 20 Jun 1913. On the front row, the three children just to Lora’s left are Georgie, Grandma Frances and Clyde. Can anyone help identify the others?

Photo 02: Faucett family or School Photo? Also taken in Lawrence County Missouri. Sandy believes this may have been another Faucett reunion or a school photo. From the number of school-aged children in the photograph Judy thinks it may be a country school group photo. Which school?

Photo 03: Sandy’s Great Uncle Raymond R. “Jack” Garringer (on the right) with two of his fishing buddies. Photo was taken at the Garringer home in Mt. Vernon. Jack Garringer died 3 Jan 1971. Can anyone identify the fishing buddies?

Email Sandy Bean if you can identify any of these folks.

Davidson, Lawrence County, 1840 – 1899

Gibson, Lawrence County, 1832 – 1895

Hillhouse, Lawrence County, 1832 – 1910

Inman, Lawrence County, 1850 – 1905

My name is Sue Mullins and my email address is Susiesearcher@att.net

When I saw it, I was very excited, thinking that this young couple might have been a very young Isaac Louis Neill and Sarah Elizabeth Gammill (although the jaw for her didn’t look right), or perhaps even Isaac’s father Peter A. Neill and mother Susan Runyon. I emailed it to Robert E. Neill, my Uncle Bob (father’s first cousin, raised like brothers), expecting to find out who they were. He had no idea, had never seen it before, and thought that perhaps they weren’t Neills or Gammills at all because they were dressed too opulently to be Missouri farmers from our family. Did photographers ever “rent out” suits of clothes for picture taking?

I would really love to know who they are; they must be related somehow, or we would not have the daguerreotype. On the reverse of the daguerreotype are the words, handwritten in pencil: “Oregon Express”

I can’t guarantee that this couple is from Lawrence County, so you may opt not to post them here; I am also posting the picture on the Barry County website, since the NEILLs started off there. Our Neills lived in Buck Prairie Twp, Marionville, on the Neill farm. Once I know the protocol, I’ll send the other pictures for consideration.

Regards,

Lorraine Fletez-Brant
NEILL, GAMMILL, HIX, MALLARD, WORD, COLLINS, WILLIAMS, COMPTON, BRANT

My great grandfather was Lewis Piper. He died March 27, 1886 in Lawrence Co, MO. His daughter, my grandmother, was Dora Ellen Piper. She always used the name Ella and married my grandfather, Edward Michael Simon in 1898 in Jasper Co, MO.

Joyce Simon Snell