  The
Dallas Morning News
Dallas, Texas Sunday 28 August 1938 Photo of Years Ago Recalls Belles of the 90's VAN ALSTYNE, Texas, Aug. 27 - Van Alstyne 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, 1896, forty-two years ago. The music class of Old Columbia College was well known and called one of the best 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. Weisner and now deceased; Dixie Umphress, 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 Nannie Golden, now Mrs. J.A. Elliot, McKinney, and Anne McKinney, now Mrs. Gus W. Thomasson, Dallas. The third row are Berta Garver, now Mrs. S.A. Trube, Austin; Flora Howle, now Mrs. Lee Veasey, 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 Lutes, now Mrs. Tobe Hughes, Bokchito, Okla.; Frankie Chenoweth, the music teacher; Sallie Greer and Mabel Roff, now deceased.  Columbia College History Susan Hawkins © 2024 If you find any of Grayson County TXGenWeb links inoperable, please send me a message. |