Clara Jane (Kimbrough) Fears of Monroe County, Mississippi United States was born in 1857 to Orman Morrison Kimbrough and Jane (Enloe) Kimbrough. She had siblings Sarah Elizabeth (Kimbrough) Quinn, Walter Armstrong Kimbrough, Mary Ellen Kimbrough, George Washington Kimbrough, and Lydia Margaret Kimbrough. She married James Monroe Fears in 1879 in Amory, Monroe County, and they were married until Clara's death in 1908. She had children Lela Agnes Fears, Helen Elizabeth Fears, Lydia L Fears, James Henry Fears, Ira Walter Fears, and Archie Franklin Fears. Clara Fears was buried in October 1908 at Greenbrier Cemetery in Monroe County.
In the far past, we had paintings of family members - most usually these were reserved for the well off. The era of modern photography began with the daguerreotype, in 1839. Since the advent of photo...