Album 4 - Margaret (Bond) Pierce

 

 

The Margaret and Julia Bond Albums:

 

     These photos were gathered throughout their lifetimes and put in albums by two daughters of Robert Lewis Bond (1836-1916) and Martha Jane Ramey (1850-1907), who lived in Carrollton, Carroll Co., KY.   Five such albums were assembled by Margaret Ramey (Bond) Pierce (1874-1970), wife of Norval Lee Pierce (1871-1951) and Julia Frances (Bond) Spalding (1877-1968), wife of Okey Wallace Spalding (1872-1956).  Additionally, included here is a miscellaneous collection of photographs, scans and digital images captured from the world wide web that have been used for identification or to clarify the identification of the album subjects.

Album 1:    Margaret Ramey (Bond) Pierce
Album 2:    Margaret Ramey (Bond) Pierce
Album 3:    Margaret Ramey (Bond) Pierce
Album 4:    Duplicate and/or Important Photos from Albums 1-3
Album 5:    Julia Frances (Bond) Spalding
Miscellaneous:    Loose photos or unassociated images used for identification or clarification

 

Photography:

     Photos were selected from each album for family interest and to eliminate duplicates, of which there were more than a few.  The photos were copied at a time when digital scanners were too expensive for home use, so they were first photographed.  The selected photos were placed under glass and photographed using four floodlamps at approximately 45 degrees to the lens to minimize glare.  The film was Kodak Plus-X, developed in Kodak D-19.  The resulting negatives were sent to Eastman Kodak to be scanned at 2000dpi and placed on a CD.  The highest resolution image (of five) of each exposure was then stripped from the CD and stored as a .jpg.  Thumbnails are shown below, each having a link to the full resolution image.

      Many albums have two parts, each having numbering from 0001, owing to the limited storage capacity of the original CDs for the images.  On this website, the second part may or may not be shown, or only a few images of the second part may be shown.  This is because the second parts contain photographs of living persons. 

     Many of the snapshots in the albums may have been taken using a No. 3A Folding Pocket Kodak roll film camera, which was part of Margaret (Bond) Pierce's estate.  It produced negatives 3¼×5½ inches in size.  A large number of snapshots in these albums are that size.

 

 

Identification:

     Each photograph in the albums has been numbered sequentially, using the form: ALBUM4-PT1 001.  They are in chronological order, with a few exceptions.  Generally, each photo has some kind of caption with it in the albums 1-5; this is quoted immediately following the photo number.  Captions may contain the subject(s) present in a photograph and/or the locale and/or date/year.  If a person is not identified by its caption, they are often identified in another photograph or photographs, which is then included in the subject discussion.

 

Cast of Characters:

 

    Margaret Ramey Bond (1874 - 1970), was the daughter of Robert Lewis Bond (1836 - 1916) and Martha Jane "Mattie" Ramey (1850 - 1907).  She lived with her three sisters, Maynie Laura Bond (1872 - 1957), Julia Frances Bond (1877 - 1968), James Dorothy "Dot" [or "Tot"] Bond, and one brother, Richard Frank (who was called Frank or R. Frank) Bond (1881 - 1948).  While growing up, the family first lived at a farm called Clearview, in the Sharon neighborhood on Four Mile Road about five miles south of Ghent, Carroll County, Kentucky; this house was abandoned but still standing as late as 1997.  Later, they moved to a larger house called Smoke Tree, on the Ohio River bank, about one mile east of Carrollton, Carroll County, Kentucky; this house burned to the ground in the early 1900's.  After his children left home and his wife died, Robert L. Bond moved to a smaller house called Mapleview in Sanders, Carroll County, Kentucky; this house is still occupied.  About 1910, Margaret moved to New Orleans, living with her brother Frank.  She married, in 1912, Norval Lee Pierce (1871 - 1951), son of James Perry Pierce (1841 - 1916) and Emeline F. Rolston (1840 - 1895) of Marion, Crittenden County, Kentucky.  They first lived in Marseilles, Illinois, where Norval was the manager of a General Roofing Company (now known as Certainteed) Plant.  Almost immediately, they started making plans to return to farming, purchasing 647¼ acres just south of Woodville, Wilkenson County, Mississippi, that they called The Plantation, despite the fact that the "big house" appears to be a three-room clapboard shack, where both of their children were born.  In 1919, they sold out of Woodville, and moved to Tupelo, Lee County, Mississippi, first on an 80-acre farm west of town, and about 1925, to a town lot in Tupelo.  By 1930, they lived in Chicago, flying high in real estate speculation.  Their oldest, Norval Lee Pierce, Jr. died in April of 1931 from a ruptured spleen, the unexpected effect of a boyish fight, they were running a sandwich shop (more like a hot-dog stand) around the corner from their residence.  By the winter of 1932/33, they gave in to the depression and moved onto "Frankelva", the 69-acre summer or vacation property/farm just south of Natchitoches, Louisiana owned by Frank and Elva Bond, Margaret's brother and sister-in-law.  Initially, Norval fixed up the house, which was in a disreputable state, to be livable.  It then became a comfortable summer retreat of Frank and Elva.  In 1936, they were joined there by Okey and Julia (Bond) Spalding, Margaret's sister.  After the death of Frank Bond in 1948, Norval Pierce in 1951 and Elva shortly after, Margaret, Julia and Okey were allowed to continue to live on "Frankelva", despite its deed having descended to Elva's heirs.  Some time after Okey died in 1956, the two sisters, now elderly, moved to a rental house in town. 

     Maynie Laura "Dixie" Bond (1872 - 1957) was R. L. and Mattie Bond's eldest child.  In 1891, she married Pierce Godbey Winslow (1873 - ?). Pierce was a cabinet-maker in the 1910 census, later, a hand in an automobile plant.  In 1901, they had a son, William Beverly Winslow (named after Pierce's father); he died at just 6 years of age in 1907.  Shortly thereafter they divorced.  Pierce re-married sometime between 1920 and 1930.  Maynie moved to the Oakland area and re-married Clarence Seward Smith (his 2nd marriage) between 1915 and 1920.  Smith had been born in Nova Scotia, Canada, and was naturalized before their marriage.  They lived in Oakland the remainder of their lives.  He was a home-builder during the California bungalow era; she ran a boarding house in one of his large houses.

     Julia Frances Bond (1877 - 1968), Margaret's next youngest sister, married in 1905 Okey Wallace Spalding (1872 - 1956).  Okey was a traveling salesman, and, for a while, they lived with R. L. Bond in his Sanders, Kentucky house.  There, they had a daughter, Margaret Catherine "Kit" Spalding (1907 - 1992).  When Kit was small, they lived in Lake Charles, Louisiana, then Little Rock.  In 1936, after Kit was off to college, Julia and Okey joined Margaret and Norval at "Frankelva" in Natchitoches.  Kit studied nursing at Good Samaritan Hospital in Cincinnati, Ohio, but had a long career as a newspaper reporter at the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.

     James Dorothy "Tot" Bond (1979 - 1964), Margaret's youngest sister, married in 1906 Arthur Yaeger Hayes (1979 - 1942).  He was described as a banker in their marriage record, and later as a farmer in the census.  They lived in Smithfield, Henry County, Kentucky, where his family was located and he was born.  Tot Hayes worked as a bookkeeper when she worked.  They had two sons: Robert Bond Hays (1912 - 1969), a Methodist minister who lived in the Atlanta, Georgia vicinity, and Arthur Hayden Hayes (Abt. 1915 - Bet. 1915-1920) who died in infancy.

     Richard Frank "R. Frank" "Frank" Bond (1881 - 1948), the only son of Robert L. and Mattie Bond, married in 1918 Elva Victoria Nash (1884 - 1951).  By 1910, his occupation was listed as superintendent of a cracker factory in New Orleans; his entire career was spent in the employ of the National Biscuit Company (Nabisco), New Orleans.  Frank and Elva bought a house in New Orleans at 30 Neron Place, about a block from the intersection of Canal St. and S. Carrollton St., the end of the line of the St. Charles streetcar.  Elva received, as a legacy from her mother, the ~69 acre farm, which she and Frank re-named: "Frankelva."  When Frank's sisters, Margaret and Julia and their husbands, needed a place to ride out the depression, and eventually to retire, "Frankelva" was offered.  In return, Norval Pierce and Okey Spalding renovated the house and kept the property in repair. 

 

 

 

Album 4 Part 1

 

   001

ALBUM4-PT1 001:  Photographic gelatine print - "Clearview, home of Robert L. Bond, Ghent, KY, Sharon neighborhood".

Photographer:  Snapshot.

Subject:       .

Date:  c.    .

  002

ALBUM4-PT1 002:  Photographic gelatine print (copy from a Daguerreotype) - " Robert L. Bond with Loud, champion fox dog (among others) c.1855".

Photographer:
  Daguerreotype unknown; copyist unknown.

Subject:
       .

Date:
  c.    .

  003

ALBUM4-PT1 003: Photographic gelatine print - "White's Run Baptist church and school".

Photographer:  Postcard.

Subject:
       .

Date:
  c.    .

  004 

ALBUM4-PT1 004: Photographic gelatine print - " view from the turnpike road into 'Clearview'".  The house Clearview exists in ruin today, and egress is not from the turnpike to the west, but rather from road that is called on Google-Maps South Fork White's Run Road to the east of the house.

Photographer:  Snapshot.

Subject:
       .

Date:
  c.    .

  005
 

ALBUM4-PT1 005: Photographic gelatine print - " childhood home of Martha Jane Ramey, Eminence, KY".  This house is still occupied today, although this alley, approaching the south side of the house, is no longer the main entrance, which is now on the west side of the house.  The house is adjacent to the north of the Eminence Cemetery.  The lower photo shows it in 1997.

Photographer:  Snapshot.

Subject:
       .

Date:
  c.    .

  006 

ALBUM4-PT1 006: Photographic gelatine print - " Aunt Annie Ramey's home [LSP: 4565 N. Main St.] Eminence, KY".

Photographer:  Snapshot.

Subject:
       .

Date:
  c.    .

  007 

ALBUM4-PT1 007: Photographic gelatine print - "Martha Jane Ramey, 20 y.o., 1870".

Photographer:  Studio photo print, copy of a carte de visite studio portrait.

Subject:
       .

Date:
  c.    .

  008 

ALBUM4-PT1 008: Photographic gelatine print - "Martha Jane Ramey, 52 y.o. 1902".

Photographer:  Studio portrait.

Subject:
       .

Date:
  c.    .

  009 

ALBUM4-PT1 009: Photographic gelatine print - "Robert Lewis Bond, 67 y.o. 1902".

Photographer:  Studio portrait.

Subject:
       .

Date:
  c.    .

  010 

ALBUM4-PT1 010: Photographic gelatine print - "Robert L. Bond with Gay [sic](actually spelled Gex) Denmark 1905".

Photographer:  Snapshot.

Subject:
       .

Date:
  c.    .

  011
 

ALBUM4-PT1 011: Photographic gelatine print - "Clearview, childhood home of Margaret Bond 1905".  The lower photo is 1997.  It does have asbestos siding, which will remain on site for a long time.

Photographer:  Snapshot.

Subject:
       .

Date:
  c.    .

  012
 

ALBUM4-PT1 012: Photographic gelatine print - "Robert L. Bond house - on the Ohio River".  This was called by the children "our house of marriages", since it was the site of a number of marriages just prior to 1900.  It burned down c.1910.  Five family members and a dog are visible on the porch.

Photographer:  Probably a professional photograph.

Subject:
       .

Date:
  The youngest girl in the family is standing to the right.  This would be Dorothy (b.1879).  She appears to be 7-9 years old, so this would be c.1886-1887.

  013
 

ALBUM4-PT1 013: Photographic gelatine print - "Robert L. Bond at Clearview".

Photographer:  Snapshot.

Subject:
       .

Date:
  c.    .

  014 

ALBUM4-PT1 014: Photographic printing out paper print - "Margaret Bond and Sallie (Munday) Ramey c.1890".

Photographer:  Studio portrait.

Subject:
       .

Date:
  c.    .

  015 

ALBUM4-PT1 015: Photographic gelatine print - "Carrie French, Margaret Bond, Lula Wright, school mates c. 1895".

Photographer:  Postcard made from a studio portrait.

Subject:
       .

Date:
  c.    .


  016 

ALBUM4-PT1 016: Tintype - "Jim Owens, Will Maddox, Lula Wright, Margaret Bond at Simpsonville, KY".

Photographer:  Studio portrait.

Subject:
       .

Date:
  c.    .

  017 

ALBUM4-PT1 017: Photographic printing out paper print - " house party at the Hampton's home on the Ohio Rr., 3 Hampton boys, 3 Hampton girls, 6 Bond girls".

Photographer:  Amateur 5x8 negative and contact print.

Subject:
       .

Date:
  c.    .

  018 

ALBUM4-PT1 018: Photographic gelatine print - "Mattie Bond Ramey at Clearview".

Photographer:  Snapshot.

Subject:
       .

Date:
  c.    .

  019 

ALBUM4-PT1 019: Photographic gelatine print - "Frank Bond, Margaret Bond, Robert L. Bond at Jackson Barracks, New Orleans".

Photographer:  Postcard.

Subject:
       .

Date:
  c.    .

  020 

ALBUM4-PT1 020: Photographic gelatine print - "Robert L Bond family (all), J.R. Ramey and Mattie Bond Ramey with Laurine (colored)".

Photographer:  Snapshot.

Subject:
       .

Date:
  c.    .

  021 

ALBUM4-PT1 021: Photographic gelatine print - "Aunt Helen (Whitaker) Bond".

Photographer:  Snapshot.

Subject:
       .

Date:
  c.    .

  022 

ALBUM4-PT1 022: Photographic printing out paper print - " Margaret Bond and friends, Union City, TN [back- Carrie French, Margaret Bond, Lula Wright]".

Photographer:  Professional or Amateur 5x8" negative and contact print.

Subject:
       .

Date:
  c.    .

  023 

ALBUM4-PT1 023: Photographic gelatine print - " Margaret Bond at the home of R. Frank Bond c.1910".

Photographer:  Postcard.

Subject:
       .

Date:
  c.    .

  024 

ALBUM4-PT1 024: Photographic gelatine print - "Robert L. Bond visiting New Orleans at Frank Bond 1501 Prytiana St., 1910".

Photographer:  Probably amateur, but extremely well lit, exposed and printed.

Subject:
       .

Date:
  c.    .

  025 

ALBUM4-PT1 025: Photographic gelatine print - " Bill Currie, R. Frank Bond, Robert L. Bond".

Photographer:  Snapshot.

Subject:
       .

Date:
  c.    .

  026
 

ALBUM4-PT1 026: Photographic gelatine print - " home of Robert L. Bond, Maple Lawn, 1907, Sanders, KY".  The house has only been altered slightly from 1907 to 1997 (lower photo).

Photographer:  Snapshot.

Subject:
       .

Date:
  c.    .

  027 

ALBUM4-PT1 027: Photographic gelatine print - " R. Frank Bond with Gex Denmark at Maple Lawn, 1909".

Photographer:  Snapshot.

Subject:
       .

Date:
  c.    .

  028 

ALBUM4-PT1 028: Photographic gelatine print - "Robert L. Bond children at Maple Lawn".

Photographer:  Snapshot.

Subject:
       .

Date:
  c.    .

  029 

ALBUM4-PT1 029: Photographic gelatine print - " Maynie (Bond) Winslow, probably in mourning for her son who died at age 9".

Photographer:  Snapshot.

Subject:
       .

Date:
  c.    .

  030 

ALBUM4-PT1 030: Photographic gelatine print - "O.W. Spalding and Julia, R. Frank Bond and Margaret Bond at the home of the Spaldings, Louisville, KY".

Photographer:  Snapshot.

Subject:
       .

Date:
  c.    .

  031 

ALBUM4-PT1 031: Photographic gelatine print - "Arthur Y. Hayes and son, Lexington, KY".

Photographer:  Snapshot.

Subject:
       .

Date:
  c.    .

  032 

ALBUM4-PT1 032: Photographic gelatine print - "coming home from Louisville trip to the Spaldings, 1906, R. Frank Bond and Margaret Bond".

Photographer:  Snapshot.

Subject:
       .

Date:
  c.    .

  033 

ALBUM4-PT1 033: Photographic gelatine print - "Robert Bond Hays".

Photographer:  Studio portrait.

Subject:
       .

Date:
  c.    .

  034 

ALBUM4-PT1 034: Photographic gelatine print - "Rev. Robert Bond Hays, Methodist minister".

Photographer:  Studio portrait.

Subject:
       .

Date:
  c.    .

  035 

ALBUM4-PT1 035: Photographic gelatine print - "Julia (Bond) Spalding".

Photographer:  Studio portrait. 

Subject:
       .  This photo also appears in Album 5 Part 1 Image 064.

Date:
  c.    .

  036 

ALBUM4-PT1 036: Photographic gelatine print - "O.W. Spalding with daughter Catherine".

Photographer:  Snapshot.

Subject:
       .  This photo also appears in Album 5 Part 1 Image 064.

Date:
  c.    .

  037 

ALBUM4-PT1 037: Photographic gelatine print - "grandfather Bond and Catherine Spalding".

Photographer:  Snapshot.

Subject:
       .

Date:
  c.    .

  038 

ALBUM4-PT1 038: Photographic gelatine print - "Auntie Mar and Catherine Spalding".

Photographer:  Snapshot.

Subject:
       .

Date:
  c.    .

  039 

ALBUM4-PT1 039: Photographic gelatine print - "Catherine Spalding, 7 mos., with John Hulbert Lewman, Louisville, KY".

Photographer:  Snapshot.

Subject:
       .

Date:
  c.    .

  040 

ALBUM4-PT1 040: Photographic gelatine print - "Catherine Spalding".

Photographer:  Snapshot.

Subject:
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Date:
  c.    .

  041 

ALBUM4-PT1 041: Photographic gelatine print - " Catherine Spalding".

Photographer:  Studio portrait.

Subject:
       .

Date:
  c.    .

  042 

ALBUM4-PT1 042: Photographic gelatine print - "Catherine Spalding and Robert Bond Hays".

Photographer:  Snapshot.

Subject:
       .

Date:
  c.    .

  043 

ALBUM4-PT1 043: Photographic gelatine print - " Ed Scott, Helen Bond & ?".

Photographer:  Snapshot.

Subject:
       .

Date:
  c.    .

  044 

ALBUM4-PT1 044: Photographic gelatine print - "R. Frank Bond in the French quarter with friends, courtyard of the old St. Louis Hotel on Royal St".

Photographer:  Snapshot.

Subject:
       .

Date:
  c.    .

  045 

ALBUM4-PT1 045: Photographic gelatine print - " Robert L. Bond on Gex Denmark at Sanders, KY".

Photographer:  Snapshot.

Subject:
       .

Date:
  c.    .

  046 

ALBUM4-PT1 046: Photographic gelatine print - " R. Frank Bond and father in New Orleans".

Photographer:  Snapshot.

Subject:
       .

Date:
  c.    .

  047 

ALBUM4-PT1 047: Photographic gelatine print - "Martha (Ramey) Bond, 52 yrs".

Photographer:  Studio portrait.

Subject:
       .

Date:
  c.    .

  048
 

ALBUM4-PT1 048: Photographic gelatine print - "Helen Bond (called her Jack), sister of Sydney and Will bond".

Photographer:  Snapshot.

Subject:
       .

Date:
  c.    .

  049 

ALBUM4-PT1 049: Photographic gelatine print - " l-r Dr. Rex Cunningham & wife Mattie (Bond) Cunningham, Mary Belle (Ramey) Garoway & husband Dr. Charles Garoway".

Photographer:  Snapshot.

Subject:
       .

Date:
  c.    .

  050 

ALBUM4-PT1 050: Photographic gelatine print - "R. Frank Bond and Margaret bond".

Photographer:  Snapshot.

Subject:
       .

Date:
  c.    .

  051 

ALBUM4-PT1 051: Photographic gelatine print - "Margaret Bond and friends, Hickman, KY, Mississippi R".

Photographer:  Snapshot.

Subject:
       .

Date:
  c.    .

  052
 

ALBUM4-PT1 052: Photographic gelatine print - "Cunningham mine sequence" (six snapshots of a trip to the mine).

Photographer:  Snapshot.

Subject:
       .

Date:
  c.    .

  053 

ALBUM4-PT1 053: Photographic gelatine print - " lower tunnell of the mine".

Photographer:  Snapshot.

Subject:
       .

Date:
  c.    .

  054 

ALBUM4-PT1 054: Photographic gelatine print - "Marion, KY home of James Perry Pierce, c.1902".

Photographer:  Snapshot.

Subject:
       .

Date:
  c.    .


  055 




ALBUM4-PT1 055:
Photographic gelatine print - " Emeline (Rolston) Pierce, 1840-1895, c.1885".

Photographer:  Studio portrait   This photograph in the album is a copy of the earlier cabinet card, of which examples can be found at FPY 004 and CCHS 201.

Subject:
  On the photograph is written "Father's Mother".  This inscription is known to be in the handwriting of Margaret (Bond) Pierce, the keeper of the album and the daughter-in-law of the subject, Emeline F.(Rolston) Pierce (1840-1895).  In this, she called her husband "father", a common habit at the time, and even today.

Date:
  c.1890; she appears to be about 50 years old.  She died in 1895, so it cannot be later than that date.

Lower Image:
     This image is the "known" in the image strip to the left that is used to compare to images suspected of being Emeline.

     The source of the images (e.g., CCHS 209) are overlain on the images.  They are (left to right): FPY 070, CCHS 238, FPY 068, CCHS 267, ALBUM 4 PT1 0055, FPY 004, and CCHS 201.

  056


ALBUM4-PT1 056: Photographic gelatine print.

Photographer:  Studio portrait.  The photograph in the album is a copy of the earlier cabinet card, of which an example can be found at CCHS 235.

Subject:
   Album Caption is "James Perry Pierce".  James Perry Pierce (1841-1916)He is the father of Florence (Pierce) Yandell (1861-1938), the owner-collector of the the collection of photographs.

Date:
  c.1895.  He appears to be in his 50's.

Lower Image:
     Comparison of images known or suspected of being of James Perry Pierce (1841-1916), in order of increasing age from left to right.  See MISC 012.
     This is one of the known images to which the others are compared.
    The source of the images (e.g., CCHS 209) are overlain on the images.  They are (left to right): FPY 057, FPY 056, FPY 055, FPY 053, FPY 058, FPY 002, FPY 003, ALBUM 4 Pt1 0056, and CCHS 235.

  057


 

ALBUM4-PT1 057:  Tintype, marked in album: "Norval Lee Pierce".  Left hand image is as is; right hand image has been digitally restored.

Photographer:  Unmarked.

Subject:
   Norval Lee Pierce (1871-1951), son of James Perry Pierce (1841-1916) and Emeline F. (Rolston) Pierce (1840-1895), and husband of Margaret Ramey (Bond) Pierce (1874-1970).

Date:
  c. 1873; he appears to be about 2 years old.

Lower Image:
     Comparison of images known or suspected of being of Norval Lee Pierce (1871-1951), in order of increasing age from left to right.
     The source of the images (e.g., CCHS 209) are overlain on the images.  They are (left to right): ALBUM 4 PT1 0057, CCHS 214, ALBUM 4 PT1 0058, CCHS 249, ALBUM 4 PT1 0067, FPY 021, FPY 155, FPY 022, ALBUM 2 0059, and ALBUM 2 0058.

  058 




ALBUM4-PT1 058:
Photographic gelatine print, a copy of a carte de visite, marked in album: "Norval Lee Pierce".

Photographer:  Studio portrait, unmarked here, but probably Klauber, Louisville, Ky, as on the carte de visite CCHS 214, which has the same image.

Subject:
   Norval Lee Pierce (1871-1951), son of James Perry Pierce (1841-1916) and Emeline F. (Rolston) Pierce (1840-1895), and husband of Margaret Ramey (Bond) Pierce (1874-1970).

Date:
  c. 1885.

Lower Image:
     Comparison of images known or suspected of being of Norval Lee Pierce (1871-1951), in order of increasing age from left to right.
     The source of the images (e.g., CCHS 209) are overlain on the images.  They are (left to right): ALBUM 4 PT1 0057, CCHS 214, ALBUM 4 PT1 0058, CCHS 249, ALBUM 4 PT1 0067, FPY 021, FPY 155, FPY 022, ALBUM 2 0059, and ALBUM 2 0058.

  059

Images of Ira Tilden Pierce (see MISC 016)


Images of Florence Emeline Pierce (see MISC 008)


Images of Cora A. Pierce (see MISC 011)


 

ALBUM4-PT1 059: Photographic gelatine print - " l-r James Perry Pierce, Ira, Florence, Cora, 1895 mourning".

Photographer:  Professional or talented amateur (note the even lighting for an indoor scene) 5x8" or 8x10" glass negative and contact print.

Subject:
  
     This is a photograph of James Perry Pierce and some of his children.  They appear to be mourning for the woman pictured on the easel with a sash, who is probably Emeline (Rolston) Pierce.  The ages of his children, (L-R) Ira, Florence, and Cora, are consistent with this being 1895, the year Emeline died.
     This photo is one that was used to know what Ira, Florence  and Cora looked like when they were young, and to compare to unidentified images.
 
Date:
  c.1895.

Lower Images (three image strips):
    Comparison of images known or suspected of being of 1) Ira Tilden Pierce (1876-1954), 2) Florence Emeline Pierce (1861-1938), and 3) Cora A. Pierce (1869-1915), in order of increasing age from left to right.
     For details of the image strip comparisons, see MISC 016, MISC 008), and MISC 011.

059

The portrait on the easel appears to be a photograph of Emeline (Rolston) Pierce (1840-1895) at age 30-40, a copy of which has not survived.

059

This portrait, still hanging on the wall, appears to be James Perry Pierce, probably taken at the same time as the one of Emeline on the easel.  A copy of this photograph has not survived, either, despite the large number of photographs of James that are extant.

  060 


ALBUM4-PT1 060:
Photographic gelatine print mounted in an album.  The album caption reads: "Ambey Pierce".

Photographer:  Studio portrait, a duplicate of the image FPY 014.  The photo was presumably taken at the same time as images of her siblings Cora and George (FPY 015 and FPY 020).  See those images for explanation.

Subject:
   Ambie B. Pierce (1867-1888), daughter of James Perry Pierce (1841-1916) and Emeline F. (Rolston) Pierce (1840-1895), and wife of George M. Crider (1861-1917).

Date:
  c. 1883, if the assumption of being taken at the same time as FPY 015 and FPY 020 is correct.

  061 

ALBUM4-PT1 061: Photographic gelatine print - "Miss Nell Walker (Walkers were close family friends)".

Photographer:  Studio portrait.

Subject:
       .

Date:
  c.    .

  062 


 

ALBUM 4-PT1 062:  Oval gelatine-silver photographic print mounted on a light yellow mat board; unmarked as to subject or date. 

 

Photographer:  "C.C. Cook, Fort Smith, Ark.", one of a number of photographs so marked (FPY 117 through FPY 124).

 

Subject:  Berna (Langley) Flynn (1884-1967), daughter of John Frost Langley (1860-1892) and Ella J. Cox (1861-1928), and wife of James Wilson Flynn (1879-1952)

 

Date:  c.1915-1920; she appears to be about 30-35 years old.

 

 Lower Image:
     Comparison of known or suspected images of Berna, in approximate order of age, which is shown in the lower image.  See MISC 031.


     The source of the images (e.g., CCHS 209) are overlain on the images.  They are (left to right): FPY 118, FPY 001, FPY 122, and ALBUM 4 PT1 0062.

 

  063

 

ALBUM4-PT1 063: Photographic gelatine print - "Maggie Walker, Miriam Pierce (middle), Myrtle Walker [and others] in front of the Methodist church, Marion, KY".

Photographer:  Snapshot.

Subject:
  James P. Pierce was appointed guardian of the minor children of Lewis Walker on 6 Apr 18-- (date is cut off) probably 1897 (the father, Lewis Walker, died in 1896, and the mother, Mary Belt, died in 1897). The names of the children who were to be wards were not enumerated by the guardian bond, but probably would have included: George (1883), Addie (1884), Robert (1886), Harriett (1887), James (1888), Perdie (1891), Acie (male)(1892), Maggie (1895) and Myrtle (1896).  Addie cannot be in this photo because she died in 1902, years before the photo was taken.  This leaves four Walker girls that were wards, and a photo including the four and Miriam would be all the girls near that age in the Pierce household.

     Miriam Elizabeth Pierce (1898-1987) is the center girl, known from many other photos, such as Album 4 Pt1 0065, and Album 4 Pt1 0066.

     Myrtle Walker (1896-1975) is known to be the furthest from the right, from the photo Album 3 Part 1 Image 008.

     Maggie Walker (1894-1954) is known to be the second from the right, from the photo Album 3 Part 1 Image 003.

     The other two girls are then Harriet and Perdie.  That the one on the far left is Perdie is inferred from two things: 1) she certainly looks younger (Perdie was b.1891) than the other unidentified woman (Harriet was b.1887) in image 0063 - indeed appears to be younger than any of the Walkers, and 2) she appears in other images in this collection, whereas the older-appearing unknown does not, which would be more expected from a married woman, such as Harriet.

 

     Harriet Ann Walker (1887-1971), by elimination, would be the girl second from the left.

Date:
  c.1915, in that Miriam (b.1898) looks less than 20 yrs, and Harriett (b.1887) no older than abt. 30.

ALBUM4-PT1 063 Detail: Probably Perdie Walker.

ALBUM4-PT1 063 Detail: Probably Harriet Walker.

ALBUM4-PT1 063 Detail: Maggie Walker.

ALBUM4-PT1 063: Myrtle Walker.

  064 

ALBUM4-PT1 064: Photographic gelatine print - " Cora (Pierce) Crider and George Crider".

Photographer:  Studio portrait.

Subject:
  Cora (Pierce) Crider (1869-1915), daughter of Judge James Perry Pierce and Emeline Rolston, and her husband George M. Crider (1861-1917).

Date:
  c.1900, as she looks abt. 30 years old.

  065 

Images of William Bennett Yandell (see MISC 006):


Images of Ella J. (Cox) (Langley) Pierce (see MISC 018):



ALBUM4-PT1 065:
Photographic gelatine print - marked in album: "Mr. &Mrs. Yandell - sister Florence, Mother Pierce, Miriam Pierce, Ira Pierce".

     See Image FPY 100 for another group photo taken minutes apart from this one.

Photographer:  Snapshot.

Subject:
      

     Front Row (L-R): According to the assumptions in Album 4 Part 1 Image 063, probably Perdie Walker (b. ~1891), probably Harriet Walker (1887-1971), Myrtle Walker (1896-1975), Maggie Walker (1894-1954), Miriam Pierce (1898-1987).
     Back Row (L-R): Cortes Pierce (1864-1924), William B. Yandell (1857-1940), possibly Laura Miles  (b. ~1876) married Cortes Pierce in 1916, George Crider (1861-1917), Cora (Pierce) Crider (1869-1915), Ira Pierce (1876-1924), Florence (Pierce) Yandell (1861-1938), Ella (Cox, Langley) Pierce (1861-1928).
     This is a Rosetta Stone-type photograph for identifying the Pierce family members when they are older.  It was especially important for William Bennett Yandell, who has a number of otherwise unrecognizable portraits (e.g., Image FPY 011) in his wife Florence Pierce's collection, yet no wedding portrait including Florence.
     It also is another photo of Walker sisters (see Album 4 Part 1 Image 63, FPY 100), four of whom are seated in front.

Date:
  c.1915.  James P. Pierce, the patriarch, is missing, and a date after his death (1916) makes sense, were it not Cora's presence (d.1915).  Miriam seems to be older than 17, but cannot be.

Lower Image 1:
    
Comparison of images of William Bennett Yandell (1857-1940), husband of Florence Emeline (Pierce) Yandell (1861-1938) from various sources in this collection of images.  See MISC 006.

     The photo on the far right is definitely identified as Yandell, from a written description contemporary with the photo.  The remainder were added working backwards in time comparing photos to the right and left until reaching the photo on the far left, at his youngest.

Lower Image 2:

      Comparison of all known or suspected images of Ella, in approximate order of age, which is shown in the lower image.  See MISC 018.


  066 

Images of Miriam Elizabeth (Pierce) Dobyns (see MISC 019)


ALBUM4-PT1 066:
Unmounted gelatine photographic print,  ~4½x7½".

Photographer:  Looks like a studio pose pretending to be a candid snapshot.

Subject:  Miriam Elizabeth Pierce (1898-1987), daughter of James Perry Pierce (1841-1916) and his second wife Ella J. (Cox) (Langley) Pierce (1861-1928), and wife of William Harold Dobyns (1902-1933).

 

Date:  c.1925.

 

Lower Image:
     Comparison of known or suspected images of Ella, in approximate order of age, which is shown in the lower image.  See MISC 019.


    The source of the images (e.g., CCHS 209) are overlain on the images.  They are (left to right): FPY 037, FPY 038, FPY 039, FPY 093, FPY 080, FPY 087, FPY 041, FPY 083, FPY 079, FPY 078, ALBUM 3 PT1 0003, ALBUM 3 PT1 0020, ALBUM 4 PT1 0066, and FPY 098.

  067 




ALBUM4-PT1 067:
Photographic gelatine print.  The caption in the album reads: "Bethel College, schoolmates, including Norval L. Pierce".  In addition, the front of the print has "N.L. Pierce" written above the second from the left student in the rear, standing row.

Photographer:  Professional Portrait.

Subject:
  Norval Lee Pierce (1871-1951), son of James Perry Pierce (1841-1916) and Emeline F. (Rolston) Pierce (1840-1895), and husband of Margaret Ramey (Bond) Pierce (1874-1970).  
     Bethel College was a Baptist-affiliated college in Kentucky founded in 1854 and closed in 1964. Throughout most of its history, the Hopkinsville campus was a women's college while the Russellville campus, ~40 miles away, was a men's college.

Date:
  c.1890, assuming that he is about 19 years old.

Lower Image:
      Comparison of images known or suspected of being of Norval Lee Pierce (1871-1951), in order of increasing age from left to right.
      The source of the images (e.g., CCHS 209) are overlain on the images.  They are (left to right): ALBUM 4 PT1 0057, CCHS 214, ALBUM 4 PT1 0058, CCHS 249, ALBUM 4 PT1 0067, FPY 021, FPY 155, FPY 022, ALBUM 2 0059, and ALBUM 2 0058.

  068 

ALBUM4-PT1 068: Photographic gelatine print - "Catherine Spalding in Berkeley, CA, 1932, wearing grandma Mattie Bond's dress of 1870".  In shades of forest green.  This dress now resides at the Elmbrook Historical Society, Brookfield, WI, where it was donated by Helene (Vaubel) Pierce).

Photographer:  Snapshot, in color, but not here because of the b&w film used for copying.

Subject:
       .

Date:
  c.    .

  069 

ALBUM4-PT1 069: Photographic gelatine print - "Margaret Bond, c.1910". 
     Since Margaret and her husband-to-be grew up several counties apart, and she lived in New Orleans and he in Marion, KY when they would have been courting, I have always thought that this portrait, 069, and the following one, 070, were used as a kind of set-up or first-look for potential mates who had not seen one another.


Photographer:  Studio portrait.

Subject:
       .

Date:
  c.    .

  070 


ALBUM4-PT1 070:
Photographic gelatine print - " Norval Lee Pierce, dated 1900".

Photographer:  Studio portrait.

Subject:
       .

Date:
  c.    .

  071 

ALBUM4-PT1 071: Photographic gelatine print - " Marseilles, IL, where Margaret and Norval Pierce lived c.1912, home of the Camerons".  "X" marks the spot of the bedroom.  In the attic of this house, they found a complete set of 20 year-old "Theodore Haviland, Limoges, France, Patent Applied For" china in a box.  They kept it.  Presumably, it wasn't the Camerons'.

Photographer:  Snapshot.

Subject:
       .

Date:
  c.    .

  072 

ALBUM4-PT1 072: Photographic gelatine print - "Woodville, MS 'plantation', c.1918".

Photographer:  Snapshot.

Subject:
       .

Date:
  c.    .

  073 

ALBUM4-PT1 073: Photographic gelatine print - " Baptist Sunday school class, Woodville, MS; bldg is over 100 yrs old (in 1918)".

Photographer:  Snapshot.

Subject:
       .

Date:
  c.    .

  074 

ALBUM4-PT1 074: Photographic gelatine print - " Norval Pierce and Norval, Jr. on horse 'Dandy', c.1915".

Photographer:  Snapshot.

Subject:
       .

Date:
  c.    .

  075 

ALBUM4-PT1 075: Photographic gelatine print - "Margaret Pierce, Woodville, MS".

Photographer:  Snapshot.

Subject:
 

Date:
  c.1930.

  076 

ALBUM4-PT1 076: Photographic gelatine print - "R. Frank Bond".

Photographer:  Snapshot.

Subject:
       .

Date:
  c.    .

  077 

ALBUM4-PT1 077: Photographic gelatine print - "James Pierce, b.1918".

Photographer:  Snapshot.

Subject:
       .

Date:
  c.    .

  078 

ALBUM4-PT1 078: Photographic gelatine print - " l-r Norval Jr. Pierce, Ulander Trapp, Catherine Spalding holding James Pierce".

Photographer:  Snapshot.

Subject:
       .

Date:
  c.    .

  079 

ALBUM4-PT1 079: Photographic gelatine print - "James Pierce".

Photographer:  Snapshot.

Subject:
       .

Date:
  c.    .

  080 

ALBUM4-PT1 080: Photographic gelatine print - "Bill Currie and James Pierce, Tupelo, MS".

Photographer:  Snapshot.

Subject:
       .

Date:
  c.    .

  081 

ALBUM4-PT1 081: Photographic gelatine print - "home of Clarence W. and Maynie (Bond-Winslow) Smith, Oakland, CA; 5427 Grove St. (upstairs)".

Photographer:  Snapshot.

Subject:
       .

Date:
  c.    .

  082 

ALBUM4-PT1 082: Photographic gelatine print - "Maynie (Bond) Smith, Oakland, Sep, 1925".

Photographer:  Snapshot.

Subject:
       .

Date:
  c.    .

  083 

ALBUM4-PT1 083: Photographic gelatine print - "Elva (Nash) Bond, R. Frank Bond, Lela dePriest, Mandeville, LA".

Photographer:  Snapshot.

Subject:
       .

Date:
  c.    .

  084 

ALBUM4-PT1 084: Photographic gelatine print - "New Orleans tourist shot with R. Frank Bond".

Photographer:  Snapshot.

Subject:
       .

Date:
  c.    .

  085 

ALBUM4-PT1 085: Photographic gelatine print - " Elva and Frank Bond, 1917".

Photographer:  Snapshot.

Subject:
       .

Date:
  c.    .

  086
 

ALBUM4-PT1 086: Photographic gelatine print - "home of Elva and Frank Bond, 30 Neron Pl., New Orleans, LA (at the end of the Charles St. streetcar)".  Lower photo is from Google Map 2017.

Photographer:  Snapshot.

Subject:
       .

Date:
  c.    .

  087 

ALBUM4-PT1 087: Photographic gelatine print - "Mr. and Mrs. J.R. Ramey, Elva and Frank Bond, and little James Pierce".

Photographer:  Snapshot.

Subject:
       .

Date:
  c.    .

  088 

ALBUM4-PT1 088: Photographic gelatine print - " R. Frank Bond".

Photographer:  Studio portrait.

Subject:
       .

Date:
  c.    .

  089 

ALBUM4-PT1 089: Photographic gelatine print - "Elva (Nash) Bond".

Photographer:  Studio portrait.

Subject:
       .

Date:
  c.    .

  090 

ALBUM4-PT1 090: Photographic gelatine print - "Julia (Bond) Spalding, Mrs. Winstandly, Maynie (Bond) Smith".

Photographer:  Snapshot.

Subject:
       .

Date:
  c.    .

  091 

ALBUM4-PT1 091: Photographic gelatine print - "Maynie and Clarence S. Smith".

Photographer:  Snapshot.

Subject:
       .

Date:
  c.    .

  092 

ALBUM4-PT1 092: Photographic gelatine print - " Norval Lee Pierce Jr".

Photographer:  Studio portrait.

Subject:
       .

Date:
  c.    .

  093 

ALBUM4-PT1 093: Photographic gelatine print - "Mr. A.S. Bond".

Photographer:  Snapshot.

Subject:
       .

Date:
  c.    .

  094 

ALBUM4-PT1 094: Photographic gelatine print - "Norval Lee Pierce Jr, and James Pierce".

Photographer:  Studio portrait.

Subject:
       .

Date:
  c.    .

  095 

ALBUM4-PT1 095: Photographic gelatine print - " Norval Pierce at the Certaineed Product Co., Chicago, 1926".

Photographer:  Professional company photograph.

Subject:
       .

Date:
  c.    .

  096 

ALBUM4-PT1 096: Photographic gelatine print - "N.L. Pierce & family arriving in Natchitoches, LA 1932".

Photographer:  Snapshot.

Subject:
       .

Date:
  c.    .

  097 

ALBUM4-PT1 097: Photographic gelatine print - "James Pierce on farm, 1932".

Photographer:  Snapshot.

Subject:
       .

Date:
  c.    .

  098 

ALBUM4-PT1 098: Photographic gelatine print - "N.L. Pierce family, arriving on farm, 1932".

Photographer:  Snapshot.

Subject:
       .

Date:
  c.    .

  099 

ALBUM4-PT1 099: Photographic gelatine print - "James Pierce, 14 y.o., 1932".

Photographer:  Snapshot.

Subject:
       .

Date:
  c.    .

  100 

ALBUM4-PT1 100: Photographic gelatine print - "farm house, 1932".

Photographer:  Snapshot.

Subject:
       .

Date:
  c.    .

  101 

ALBUM4-PT1 101: Photographic gelatine print - " Margaret, N.L. Pierce in background".

Photographer:  Snapshot.

Subject:
       .

Date:
  c.    .

  102

ALBUM4-PT1 102:  Photographic gelatine print - "N.L. Pierce on farm".

Photographer:
  Snapshot.

Subject:
       .

Date:
  c.    .

  103

ALBUM4-PT1 103: Photographic gelatine print - "the porch at Frankelva before screening".

Photographer:  Snapshot.

Subject:
       .

Date:
  c.    .

  104 

ALBUM4-PT1 104: Photographic gelatine print - "sisters Margaret, Tot, Julia and brother R. Frank Bond".

Photographer:  Snapshot.

Subject:
       .

Date:
  c.    .

  105 

ALBUM4-PT1 105: Photographic gelatine print - "1937 James pierce(far right) at Chilicothe Bus. School, MO.".

Photographer:  Snapshot.

Subject:
       .

Date:
  c.    .

  106 

ALBUM4-PT1 106: Photographic gelatine print - " James and Helene (Vaubel) Pierce, 1939, St. Louis".

Photographer:  Snapshot.

Subject:
       .

Date:
  c.    .

  107 

ALBUM4-PT1 107: Photographic gelatine print - "James and Helene Pierce, may, 1939".

Photographer:  Snapshot.

Subject:
       .

Date:
  c.    .

  108 

ALBUM4-PT1 108: Photographic gelatine print - "James and Helene Pierce on the now screened porch at Frankelva".

Photographer:  Snapshot.

Subject:
       .

Date:
  c.    .

  109 

ALBUM4-PT1 109: Photographic gelatine print - "Helene Pierce at the gate of Frankelva".

Photographer:  Snapshot.

Subject:
       .

Date:
  c.    .

  110 

ALBUM4-PT1 110: Photographic gelatine print - " l-r Henry R., OW Spalding, J Pierce, Julia Spalding, NL Pierce, Margaret Pierce, Mary Stewart, Elva Bond, Kit Spalding, Helene Pierce".

Photographer:  Snapshot.

Subject:
       .

Date:
  c.    .

  111 

ALBUM4-PT1 111: Photographic gelatine print - "same group as 110 saying goodbye".

Photographer:  Snapshot.

Subject:
       .

Date:
  c.    .

  112 

ALBUM4-PT1 112: Photographic gelatine print - " Maynie Smith, Aug 31, 1941, at Suzie's (CA)".

Photographer:  Snapshot.

Subject:
       .

Date:
  c.    .

  113 

ALBUM4-PT1 113: Photographic gelatine print - " l-r Margaret Pierce, Julia Spalding, Tot Hayes, Virginia Bond (d. John C.), R. Frank Bond, John C. Bond, Kit Spalding, 1938".

Photographer:  Snapshot.

Subject:
       .

Date:
  c.    .

  114 

ALBUM4-PT1 114: Photographic gelatine print - " Tot (Bond) Hayes and Virginia Bond, 1938".

Photographer:  Snapshot.

Subject:
       .

Date:
  c.    .

  115 

ALBUM4-PT1 115: Photographic gelatine print - "1942, O.W. Spalding and Julia out back at Frankelva".

Photographer:  Snapshot.

Subject:
       .

Date:
  c.    .

  116 

ALBUM4-PT1 116: Photographic gelatine print - "N.L. Pierce and Margaret, 1942 at Frankelva".

Photographer:  Snapshot.

Subject:
       .

Date:
  c.    .

  117 

ALBUM4-PT1 117: Photographic gelatine print - " Mrs. Jas. Ramey, Elva Bond, Mrs. Mary N. Stewart 1940".

Photographer:  Snapshot.

Subject:
       .

Date:
  c.    .

  118 

ALBUM4-PT1 118: Photographic gelatine print - "1945 reunion of R.L. Bond children".

Photographer:  Snapshot.

Subject:
       .

Date:
  c.    .

  119 

ALBUM4-PT1 119: Photographic gelatine print - " May 1945 Maynie, R. Frank Bond, O.W. Spalding, Julia Spalding, N.L. Pierce, Margaret Pierce, Queenie (dog) and Kit Spalding".

Photographer:  Snapshot.

Subject:
       .

Date:
  c.    .

  120 

ALBUM4-PT1 120: Photographic gelatine print - "July 6, 1944 James Frank Pierce Camp Andrews Field".

Photographer:  Snapshot.

Subject:
       .

Date:
  c.    .

  121 

ALBUM4-PT1 121: Photographic gelatine print - " James Pierce and old Queenie".

Photographer:  Snapshot.

Subject:
       .

Date:
  c.    .

  122 

ALBUM4-PT1 122: Photographic gelatine print - " Helene Pierce and Karen Lee Pierce 1942".

Photographer:  Snapshot.

Subject:
       .

Date:
  c.    .

  123 

ALBUM4-PT1 123: Photographic gelatine print - "James Pierce, Dysart, IA Mar 1944".

Photographer:  Snapshot.

Subject:
       .

Date:
  c.    .

  124 

ALBUM4-PT1 124: Photographic gelatine print - "James Pierce, Dysart, IA on leave".

Photographer:  Snapshot.

Subject:
       .

Date:
  c.    .

Album 4 Part 2 Loose Photos

  004 ALBUM4-PT2 004:  Photographic gelatine print - "Sept 1945 James Pierce at work [taken by the office photo man]".

Photographer:  U.S. Army professional  photographer.

Subject:       .

Date:  c.    .

  026

ALBUM4-PT2 026:  Photographic gelatine print - " Larry and Helene Pierce".

Photographer:
  Studio portrait.

Subject:
       .

Date:
  c. 1949.

  027

ALBUM4-PT2 027: Cabinet card - "Julia Bond and Maynie Bond".

Photographer:  Walton, Vevay, Ind.

Subject:
       .

Date:
  c.    .
  028  ALBUM4-PT2 028: Photographic gelatine print - "Helene Mae Vaubel c.1938".

Photographer:  Studio portrait.

Subject:
       .

Date:
  c.    .
  029  ALBUM4-PT2 029: Photographic gelatine print - "Helene Mae Vaubel".

Photographer:  Studio portrait.

Subject:
       .

Date:
  c.    .
  032  ALBUM4-PT2 032: Photographic gelatine print - "Helene Pierce c.1967".

Photographer:  Church portrait.

Subject:
       .

Date:
  c.    .
  033  ALBUM4-PT2 033: Photographic gelatine print - "James F. Pierce c.1967".

Photographer:  Church portrait.

Subject:
       .

Date:
  c.    .
  034  ALBUM4-PT2 034: Photographic gelatine print - "Helene Mae Vaubel".

Photographer:  Studio portrait.

Subject:
       .

Date:
  c.    .
  035  ALBUM4-PT2 035: Photographic gelatine print - "Margaret (Bond) Pierce".

Photographer:  Snapshot.

Subject:
       .

Date:
  c.    .

 

 

 

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