Elaine Vail

Effie Mae playing cards or telling fortunes. (Mother: Hannah Macy Diveley; Father: Unknown) Burnside Bambrough.

Effie Mae was born in 1908 in Brownstown, IL. She was 16 years when she pretended to be a fortune teller or card player in this pic. Her last name listed on the back of the original photo is BURNSIDE, her first husband who died jumping off a moving train. Her father is unknown. A fake father surnamed Fisher is listed on her birth certificate. My Aunt Effie & my mother, Jennie, said that Fisher was not her father. Effie's stepDad is Henry Krempp. She had no children but two husbands: Bill Burnside & Bill Bambrough. She died in Peoria, IL. Her Mom, Hannah Macey Diveley, died 1922 when she was an about 14 years. Her half-sisters, Marie, Blanche, & Jennie, moved to Holdrege, NE to be taken care of by their Maternal Aunt Clara (nee: Diveley) Fleischman. Her brother, Henry, was unofficially adopted by Joe & Annie Nagel, & they eventually moved to Arizona near the Navajo Indian Reservation.

Sailors decorating the graves of their comrades who were killed at the bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. Names of the sailors unknown.

Photo courtesy of the Library of Congress, U.S. Navy

A photo of Walter George Kluck and Martha Mary Gablonski Kluck

A photo of Mathias Ilseng

A photo of Augusta Marie (Buer) Ilseng

A photo of Fae Smith

A photo of Jimmy Frank Montgomery

Harold, his mother Mary & his sister Irene

Magnus Ferdinand Riedell, wife (Catherina Naugard) and children. All Danish
People in photo include: Magnus Ferdinand Riedell and Catherina (Naugard) Riedell

feeding his chickens...Upton Shefford Peck was born on January 3, 1920, in Iowa, the only child of Daniel and Alice Maud. He married Goldie Lillian Barrett on May 22, 1940, in Decorah, Iowa. They had seven children during their marriage. He died on May 24, 1989, at the age of 69.

Katherine Frances (Matko) Nicolaus on her wedding day, June 6, 1936. Taken in Monessen, Pennsylvania, where she was married to Jacob G. Nicolaus Jr. She had three children whose names were David, James, and Catherine Nicolaus.

Albert Tomas Dew born 3rd June 1873, died 13th August 1954

Cousins George Engel and Lea Penman at 1236 Acoma Street, Denver, Colorado in 1912. After attending Denver University, Lea would later embark on a stage and screen career with her greatest achievement being cast as Dolly Tate in the 1946 Broadway Musical production of "Annie Get Your Gun", which opened at the Imperial Theatre in New York City on May 16, 1946 and ran for 1,147 performances and was the third longest running musical of the 1940s.

Mary Leona "Oner" Vail, nee Carter, Covey Vail, Joseph "Joe" Leonard Vail, baby "L.D." Leonard Vail, taken c. Nov. 1918 near Blocker, OK. Oner was the daughter of Wm. F. Carter and Susan E. Smith. She died shortly after this picture was taken during childbirth and the influenza. Covey also died from the influenza. Joe Vail was the son of Andrew Madison Vail and Matilda Ann Rush.
People in photo include: Covey Vail, Joseph "Joe" Leonard Vail, and Leonard "Ld" Vail