Submitted
on 20 Sep 2000 by Ed Hamilton
I don't
know all of these people, but the boy
on the right in the front row is
Herbert Hamilton, the larger boy just
in back to his left is Pete Shelly,
the man standing in the back row
second to the right of the door is
George B. Hamilton and the lady
standing in the left corner is Ollie
Hamilton. Pleasant Ridge School
class of 1906.
Submitted
on 17 July 2009 by Anne Falkenrath
The
gentleman directly to the left of
George Burr Hamilton is his cousin
Thomas Everett Hamilton and I believe
the gentleman with the beard who is
standing directly to the right of
George is Abraham B. Hamilton, father
of Thomas Hamilton and uncle to
George. He was a teacher at
Pleasant Ridge and became a member of
the board (according to the book
written by J.I. Breuer and an
interview I held with him some time
ago). Abe was born in Crawford
County to John Wesley Hamilton and
Mary Ann Morgan. John Wesley
went by the name Wesley. His
father, John Wesley Hamilton, Sr. and
mother Susannah Hartman were the first
Hamiltons to move to Crawford County
from Sullivan County, Tennessee
sometime in the early to mid 1840's.
The woman
to the left who's wearing the
elaborate hat and holding the baby is
(I believe...the photo is kind of
grainy) Bertha Gertrude Hamilton nee
Windle, wife of Thomas Hamilton and
daughter of James Washington Windle
and Sarah Ellen Bray. Her
parents are featured in this photo.
Not sure which child she is
holding. At that date it could
either be Olive Catherine or Berkley
Alexander Hamilton. The Windles
came to Crawford County from Overton
County, Tennessee in the early 1860's
through way of Dent County. The
Bray's were in Crawford County by
1880. Sarah's father William
Riley Bray is buried in the Hibler
Cemetery just outside of Steeleville,
Missouri.
I have
extensive information on both sides of
the family as they were my grandmother
Helen Hamilton Burdick Falkenrath's
parents. Anyone interested can
contact me.
