Dallas Morning News
August 28, 1938
Photo of Years Ago Recalls Belles of
the 90s
Van
Alstyne, Texas Aug. 27--
Van Alstyne has had its share of the
belles of the gay nineties,
as the picture above well shows. The above group posed for the picture
May 2, 1892, forty-two years ago. The music class of Old Columbia
College
was well known and called one of the best of girl orchestras in this
section.
Old Columbia College was located one block north of the present school
and was a popular school in its days.
In the front row of the above picture
are, left to right;
Inez
Slaughter who later became Mrs. A.B. Weiner and now
deceased; Dixie
Umphris, now Mrs. Lester Henderson, Dallas; Maud Umphress,
now Mrs. Spencer
Taylor, Van Alstyne; and Sallie
Carter, now Mrs. Lyman Umphress, Van Alstyne.
In the second row are Minnie Golden,
now Mrs. J.A. Elliott, McKinney;
and Annie McKinney
now Mrs. Gus W. Thomason, Dallas.
The third row are Berta Garver,
now Mrs. S.A. Trube, Austin; Flora
Howle, now Mrs. Lee Veaney, Van Alstyne; Una Mount, now
Mrs. Una Lockett,
Van Alstyne; Pearl
Cannon, now Mrs. Walter Barron, Van Alstyne; and Ruth
McKinney, now Mrs. John Niell, Van Alstyne.
In the back row are Birdie Maddox, Nannie Luters,
now Mrs. Tobe
Huches, Bokchito, Okla; Frankie
Chenoweth, the music teacher; Sallie Greer
and Mabel Roff,
now deceased.
