Comments written on photographs are shown in italics. Most of the photographs were taken in southeastern Kentucky (chiefly in London, Laurel County) and a few were taken in Virginia, Tennessee, Georgia and Alabama. If you can identify any of the unnamed people, please let me know (donchesnut<at>gmail.com). Photographs were made from 1850 to 1950.
young
girl in chair, old tintype, probably associated with
the Robinsons.
unknown young lady, old tintype, probably associated with the
Robinsons, looks like it could be a young Flora Robinson.
lady in bonnet, old tintype, probably associated with the Robinsons.
man with sliding trumpet?, old tintype, probably associated with the
Robinsons.
Betty Gay Bodine
and George Orville Bodine (from http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~bodine/f5913.html)
Jimmy,
James Tipton Robinson??
1890 ca,
three unknown siblings, probably Lee Co., VA, Claiborne Co., TN, or
Laurel Co., KY. Associated with the Robinson family.
John Nelson Robinson (b. 1842 VA). Sergeant in 25th VA Cavalry in Civil
War. Photographer and jeweller in London, KY.
1906
ca, Minnie Belle Robinson (b. 1889 KY)
1891,
Mother
when 2
years old. Minnie Belle Robinson (b. 1889 KY)
1931,
Extended Robinson family (John N. Robinson and Flora Robinson).
Left to right, back row: unknown young lady, Minnie Robinson Eversole
behind her, Hallie Robinson?, unknown tall man, Lillie Robinson in
dark, Flora Robinson, unknown, Cora Robinson? Flo Pearl Eversole
Westbrook, baby Glenn "Buddy" Westbrook, unknown tall woman; middle
row: young child Madge Corinne, Madge Eversole Hackney holding her,
Willis Hackney, Roscoe C. Eversole (kneeling), James Russell Robinson
(kneeling), William Leonard Robinson?, young girl unknown; front row:
Emmett Robinson (with doll), Glenn Eversole, unknown, Hamp Westbrook,
unknown older gentleman
1931, Robinson children and Flora. Left to right: Minnie Robinson
Eversole, Emmett Robinson, Hallie Robinson?, James Russell Robinson,
Lillian Robinson in dark, Cora Robinson?, Leonard Robinson, Flora
Robinson on right end.
Looks
like Flora Robinson on left; don't know the lady on the right.
1927, Flora Robinson and Madge Corinne
John Nelson Robinson (b. 1842 VA)
1880
ca, Samuel Robinson (b. 1855 VA)
1875
ca, Samuel Robinson (b. 1855 VA)
1875
ca, Samuel Robinson (b. 1855 VA)
1890
ca, two unknown Bales brothers, probably Lee Co., VA or Claiborne
Co., TN. Associated with the Robinson family.
1890 ca,
unknown boy, probably Lee Co., VA or Claiborne Co., TN. Associated with
the Robinson family.
1880 ca, Isabella "Charity" Robinson
(b. 1845 VA)
1885
ca, Esther Lester Robinson (b. 1815 VA)
1875 ca, Esther Lester Robinson (b.
1815 VA)
1894
ca, Uncle
Emmett,
Emmett Robinson (b. 1876 KY)
1880 ca, Emmett
Robinson,
Emmett Robinson (b. 1876 KY)
1880 ca, Grandma
Robinson, Flora Robinson,
Flora Elizabeth
Robinson (b. 1854 TN)
1885 ca, Aunt Lillie in chair, Aunt Cora,
Uncle Emmett, Mary
Lillian Robinson, Cora Jane Robinson, Emmett Robinson
1890 ca,
Uncle Russell
and Aunt Hallie Tipton, James Russell
Robinson, Hallie Edith Robinson
unknown girl; could be Flo Pearl Eversole
1916
ca, Mary
Russell,
Mary Russell Robinson (b. 1916 KY)
1916
ca, Nelson
Robinson,
Virgil Nelson Robinson (b. 1912 KY)
Date:
Sept. 22, 1908 To:
Mr. J. N. Robinson, London, Ky. Correspondence Here: Cambridge,
Ill. R. 2. Dear Uncle: Please except a postal of me and three of my
friends. We are patronizing "home industry" smoking Kewanee cigars. I
am sitting down and also showing my teeth considerably, but am not
fierce. Palmer Robinson,
Palmer Robinson (b.ca 1880), son of Samuel Robinson (b. 1855 VA).
Written side of postcard above
1907
ca, Aunt
Mary Lois Martin
Robinson
unknown
man, probably family in VA, TN, or GA
Grandma
Robinson's
Grandparents house before Civil War, Grandma
Robinson's old house in Tazewell. There are two sets of
grandparents, both living in Tazewell, Claiborne Co., TN; one is
Absalom Robinson and Elizabeth "Eliza" Rose Robinson and the other is
Thomas Henderson and Elizabeth "Betsy" Hardy Henderson. I don't know
which set owned this house.
Sept.
1931,
From left to right, front row: Minnie Belle Robinson Eversole, Hallie
Robinson Tipton?, Lillian Robinson, Cora Robinson Gay, Flora Robinson
(their mother); back row: Emmett, James Russell and William Leonard
Robinsons (I'm not sure about the order).
Mamma,
Aunt Cora,
Minnie Robinson Eversole, Cora Robinson Gay
unidentified couple, perhaps Robinsons
Aunt
Mary Lois and Uncle
Russell Robinson, Mary Lois Martin Robinson and her
husband, James Russell Robinson.
Uncle
Will Gay, Betty
Bodine, Aunt Cora Gay, Mamma? Elizabeth "Betty" Gay
Bodine, William Gay, Cora Robinson Gay, Minnie Robinson Eversole.
Aunt
Mary Lois,
Mary Lois Martin Robinson
Betty
Gay Bodine, taken
on 3rd performance 3/7/24, Always your little
pal, Betty. Elizabeth "Betty" Gay Bodine
1894
ca, Back Row: Homer
King,
Mollie King, Front Row: Grandpa
King, Grandma
Mary. James "Homer" King (b. 1880 AL), Mary
Frances Adline "Mollie" King (b. 1876 AL), Thornton Cushi King (b. 1836
SC), Mary Unknown King, second wife of Thornton's.
Reba
Westbrook, Mrs
Westbrook-Hamp's mother, Angie Westbrook Moberly
Hamp
Westbrook, is C.F.D. the Corbin Fire Department?
Hamp
in Hazard,
fellow on right is unknown
Mamma
Eversole, Madge
Corinne Westbrook Chesnut, Grandma Robinson, Flo
Pearl Eversole Westbrook
1904
ca, Portersburg, Clay County, KY. Matt Benge and Sarah Alice
Porter Benge family. Left to right, back row: unknown lady (perhaps
sister of Sarah Alice Porter), Daisy Dean Benge (b. 1891); front row:
Samuel Roscoe Benge? (b. 1896), George Madison "Matt" Benge (b. 1870
KY), Nora Lee Benge (b. 1893), baby Charles Benge (b. 1903), Sarah
Alice Porter Benge (b. 1873 KY), Walter Benge (b. 1898)
1910
ca, probably Portersburg, Clay Co., KY. Nora Lee Benge
1904
ca, Laurel or Clay County, KY. William Harrison Porter and
Elizabeth "Eliza" House Porter family. Sarah Alice Porter Benge (b.
1873) is the tallest standing person; William Harrison Porter (b. 1847
KY) and Elizabeth "Eliza" House Porter (b. 1851 KY) are sitting in the
middle. Please let me
know if you can identify any of the others.
1900 ca, William Harrison Porter (b. 1847 KY)
1875 ca, Elizabeth Ann "Eliza" House Porter (b. 1851 KY) and baby.
1920
ca, Floyd Bryan Jones (b. 1896 KY) and Elizabeth "Pearl" Benge (b.
1901 KY)
1947, George Madison "Matt" Benge (b.
1870 KY) and second wife, Ida Barnett (b. 1891)
On
Minnie Estridge's
birthday. Back: Pauline Jones. Sitting: Miss
Binder, Minnie C. Estridge, Nora Chesnut, Will Chesnut. Looks
like a Polaroid.
Where
is this?
Probably somewhere in Laurel County, KY.
Here
is a 82year old
"girl," mother of H. J. Saylor. Emily Barnett
Saylor (b.ca 1848 KY), wife of Willis Saylor. [Thanks to Toni Goodrick
for this information.]
William
Jennings "W.J." Chesnut (b. 1892 KY)
Nora Lee Benge Chesnut (b. 1893 KY)
Laurel Grocery, East Bernstadt, KY. Janie Williams, George Griffin, W.
J. Chesnut
Laurel
Grocery, East Bernstadt, KY.
The old building is the East Bernstadt Banking Company.
The banking company opened Oct 1, 1904 with capital stock of
$15,000. Moved to London around the late 30 or early 40 and
changed name to Second National Bank. In 1972 the name was
changed to Cumberland Valley National Bank and Trust because they were
2nd to none and the 1st National Bank was taken. [Information from
Annie Gilbert Chesnut]
1929 ca, East Bernstadt, KY. Donald Chesnut, Elizabeth "Christine"
Chesnut, Alice "Pauline" Chesnut, William "Jennings" Chesnut.
Nora
Lee Benge Chesnut (b. 1893 KY) and William "Jennings" Chesnut
1928
ca, Baptist church in East Bernstadt, Kentucky. William J. Chesnut
is the tall person in the back at the center of the doors; Nora Lee
Benge Chesnut may be the fourth lady left of him; Jennings Chesnut is
the teenager in the middle row just two rows in front of the tall man
in the back on the left; other siblings are probably here too, but I
can't identify them.
1963,
50th Anniversary of William "W.J." Chesnut and Nora Lee Benge
Chesnut.
1902 ca, school class in eastern Laurel County, KY. William "W.J."
Chesnut is the short boy directly above the teacher's head. Other
people are unknown. Presumably sister Sarah "Sallie" Chesnut is here
too.
1914,
London, Laurel County, KY.
W. J. Chesnut (at desk)
and Gene Hackney in the new London Post Office
(now Federal Court House) in 1914.
W.
J. Chesnut (center),
Gene Hackney (background), clerk at window is
unknown. New London Post Office, 1914. See previous.
1915
ca, Nora Lee Benge Chesnut (b. 1893 KY) and William "Jennings"
Chesnut, Jr. (b. 1914 KY).
1880 ca,
Martin and
Sally Asher, Joseph "Martin" Asher (b. 1837 KY) and Sarah
"Sally" Brown Asher (b. 1840 KY). It has been suggested that she moved
her head while being photographed. Does
anybody have a
better-quality photograph? This is from a
photocopy.
1960 ca, William "W.J." Chesnut (b.
1892 KY)
1918 ca, William "W.J." Chesnut (b. 1892 KY), Alice "Pauline"
Chesnut Jones (b. 1916 KY), William "Jennings" Chesnut, Jr. (b. 1914
KY), Nora Lee Benge Chesnut (b. 1893 KY)
1892
ca, Pleasant L. Chesnut (b. 1859 KY)
1900 ca, Susan E. Asher Chesnut Saylor
(b. 1861 KY). From photograph below.
1900
ca, Lida, Laurel Co., KY, Henry J. Saylor (b. 1874) and Susan E. Asher
Chesnut Saylor (b. 1861 KY).
1865 ca, Stephen Chesnut (b. 1831 KY) and Mary Ann Walters Chesnut (b.
1838 KY).
1947, Mary Frances Boner Chesnut and
John A. Chesnut (b. 1862 KY). Mary was John's second wife.
1947 ca, William J. "W.J." Chesnut,
Nora Lee Benge Chesnut and Jenny Lee Chesnut
William
B. Clarke.
See previous
Laurel
County
Fairgrounds, North London, US 25/80. [probably where A.T.
Wiggins lived.]
Tibby-
This was in
Mother's pictures. I think it is a class at the
school the Presbyterians started in Hyden. William Pearl Eversole (b. 1886 KY) is
on the left end.
Carl
and Marie Eversole
Melton, taken in Dayton, Ohio, 1953-54?
unknown lady associated with the Eversole or Morgan family
1906 ca, Hyden,
Leslie Co., KY Back
Row: Bessie, Friend of Wm Pearl's, Wm Pearl, Hallie. Front Row: Jessie,
Sophia (sitting), Abijah (sitting), James Walton (Wat), baby Don (on
Sophia's lap) and Glad (on Abijah's lap). Elizabeth
"Bessie" Eversole (b. 1890 KY), unknown friend, William Pearl Eversole
(b. 1886 KY), Hallie Eversole (b. 1888 KY), Jessica "Jessie" Eversole
(b. 1895-1897 KY), Sophia Hyden Eversole (b. 1869 KY), Abijah "Bige"
Eversole (b. 1858 KY), James Walton (b. 1898-1899 KY), Don Calvin
Eversole (b. 1905 KY), Edith Gladys Eversole (b. 1903 KY)
Father
and Mother of Sophia
(who?, can't be Sophia Hyden)
Mrs.
Sydney Muncy, Mrs. Sophia Eversole and Mrs. Sherman Eversole found
seats under a shade tree. , Mrs. Sydney Muncy (no
information), Sophia Hyden Eversole (b. 1869), Emily Morgan
Eversole (b. 1885 KY).
John
Adams (Sr.)(b. 1884 Letcher Co., KY)
1905
ca, Letcher Co., KY.
Vermillion Family. Back
Row: John Vermillion (b. 1890-1977), Bird (d.
18 years), W. I. Vermillion, Emma Thompson (md. Bent Thompson), Louise
(md. Mullins, lived Harlan). Front Row: Wm. S. Vermillion (William
Scott Vermillion, b. 1848)(son
of D.S.
Vermillion and Minerva Adams, dau. of Zach.), Ella Jane Morgan (b.
1851), baby
Jesse Edward (lived and died in Cincinnati).
1920 ca, Letcher Co., KY. Grandma
Martha Adams
with Hop Gibson's bee gums. After widowed, lived
on Hop's land. Martha Jenkins Adams (b. 1847 KY).
Evelyn
Ballard, Dorothy
Fields, Aunt Minnie Fields, Dr. David Fields,
Aunt Mattie, Aunt Edna (John's Mother). Front: Donna and Debbie Adams,
Utako.
ca
1940. Back Row: Lula
Jones, Lou Vermillion (Louella Adams Vermillion),
Madge Caudill (with
baby, Carolyn Ison), Mary Banks, Elsie Banks, Susan Long (Susan
Adams Long),
Beulah
Caudill. Front Row: Rebecca Jones (sister to Lula), Thelma Banks, Etta
Banks, Pearl Fleenor (lived to be 102), Louanna Banks (quilt maker).
Abner
Eversole, Jan. 13,
1940, 97th Birthday
1901,
Dad
at
18. Roscoe Eversole
Roscoe C. Eversole and Minnie Robinson Eversole
Baby, Roscoe C. Eversole (b. 1883) and Abner Eversole (b. 1843)
1940 ca, Roscoe Eversole and Shelby Hackney?
Baby,
Roscoe C. Eversole (b. 1883) and Abner Eversole (b. 1843)
1913 ca, Flo Pearl Eversole (b. 1908),
Madge Elizabeth Eversole (b. 1911), Glenn Eversole (b. 1909)
1941 ca, Roscoe Conklin Eversole (b.
1883), Glenn Eversole (b. 1909), Abner Eversole (b. 1843), child,
William "Bill" Eversole. Abner was a Second Lieutenant in the 14th
Kentucky (Union) Cavalry. Previously, he was in the 6th Kentucky
Cavalry and was wounded in the Battle of Richmond, Kentucky.
1913
ca, Glenn Eversole (b. 1909 KY), Madge Elizabeth Eversole (b. 1911
KY), Flo Pearl Eversole (b. 1908 KY)
similar to previous
photograph
1925 ca, Glenn R.
Eversole (b. 1909 KY)
1909 ca, Flo
Pearl,
Flo Pearl Eversole
1910
ca, Flo
Pearl,
Flo Pearl Eversole
1910 ca, Flo Pearl Eversole Westbrook,
Flo Pearl Eversole
1909 ca, Flo Pearl,
Flo Pearl Eversole
1910 ca, Glenn
Eversole,
Glenn R. Eversole
Written
side of postcard above
1921 ca, Polly
Boreing,
Flo Pearl, Vincenta Boreing
1920 ca, Flo
Pearl Eversole Westbrook,
Bennett Sipple Cook, Coressa Eberhart,
Mollie Wilson
Papa,
Roscoe Conklin Eversole (b. 1882)
1919 ca, Madge
Hackney,
Madge Elizabeth Eversole
1927 ca, Madge Elizabeth Eversole
1925 ca, Madge
E. Hackney, Madge Elizabeth Eversole
1925 ca, Raymond
Black, Madge
Eversole, Thelma Black Barnett, Flo Pearl
Eversole, Sallie Black Woodall
1925
ca, Raymond
Black, Flo Pearl E., Madge E., Thelma Black Barnett, Sallie B. Woodall
1925
ca, unknown,
must be the photographer of the previous two photographs.
1925 ca, Same
group (Raymond must be the photographer of this shot because Raymond is
missing and the unknown fellow is in this shot)
Flo Pearl Eversole is in the middle
1925 ca, Coressa
Eberhart, Mollie
Wilson, Bennett Sipple, Flo Pearl (in the back)
1925 ca, From Left to Right: Flo Pearl and Madge Eversole, and
unknown girl
Mamma,
Madge, Glenn, Flo
Pearl Eversole
1910 ca, Four generations. Standing is Minnie Robinson Eversole (b.
1889 KY), sitting is Elizabeth Henderson Robinson (b. 1836 TN) on the
left and Flora Elizabeth Robinson Robinson (b. 1854 TN) on the right,
children are Glenn Eversole and Flo Pearl Eversole.
In
the center, Elizabeth
Catching at her grandmother's house
Vincenta,
Lyda, Polly,
Lucille
Four friends, Flo Pearl on left?
Coressa
Eberhart, Flo
Pearl, Mollie Wilson
6th
Grade,
Flo Pearl Eversole, Edith Williams and unknown friend
Bennett
Sipple, Mollie
Wilson, Flo P., Forest Bowling
Coressa
Eberhart,
Bennett Sipple Cook
1921,
Elizabeth Pierett,
Coressa Eberhart, Flo Pearl
1921, Playmates
of 1921,
Madge Eversole and unknown friend
1921,
Flo
Pearl Eversole (sitting) with friends
Three friends, Flo Pearl in middle
Flo Pearl? in front with friends
1919 ca, school girls, Flo Pearl is in back, extreme left, Madge
Eversole is second from right end with one white shoe showing. Others
are unknown.
1919
ca, similar to previous, Flo Pearl is extreme left in back row, Madge
is extreme
right
Marie
Tucker and me,
(is "Me" Coressa or Flo Pearl?)
John
and wife, McCartys,
Louisville
unknown young lady on porch swing
Marion
Sloan, Bennett
and Mollie
Polly
Boreing, Carol
Edwards, Bob Dyche, Vera Eversole, Vincenta
Boreing, Brock Fouts
unknown girl on left and Madge Eversole on right
Mrs.
Pennington's class
in 19??: Mrs. Knott, Mrs. Knott, Mrs.
Pennington, Milly Reider, ?????, Ida ??, Mary Farmer, Lucille Byrnt,
Mae Brown, Lucille Poynter, Flo Pearl Eversole, Nora and Lucy Russel,
Francis Zimmerman, Pearl Young, P?ermelia Dish?ler
1930,
unknown young lady and Glenn Eversole
unknown basketball player at SBMS
1924,
Edith
Williams, Flo Pearl and unknown girl
class
of girls with teacher; Flo Pearl is on left side of teacher.
5/23/1921,
class of girls, Flo Pearl is the shortest near the middle.
May
23, 1921, The
Forlorn Four, Flo Pearl on left with dark belt.
Edith
Sipple, Mollie
Wilson, Bennett Sipple, Forest Bowling, Esther
Bowling, Coressa Eberhart, Bennett Sipple
Frog
Legs, Don Jr Brown,
Hamp, Martin ? Peyton ? (Lovelace?)
In
front of Eversole
house 3/20/34: at the corner of R. C. Eversole's
home, when ice and sleet fell bringing the telephone pole down with the
wires, our house in the background, all our town trees were broken up,
our yard was covered with broken limbs
Writing on other
side of above.
1926,
young
man and Flo Pearl Eversole
1929 ca, Flo Pearl, Madge Corinne, and Madge Eversole
Five young ladies, Flo Pearl on extreme right.
Madge Eversole, unknown friend, Flo Pearl Eversole
Co
"B" G. M. C.,
I think this is Coressa
1923,
Left
to right: unknown, Madge Eversole, unknown, Glenn Eversole, Flo Pearl
Eversole.
unknown young man in white hat
unknown friend and Madge Eversole
This
is only H.B. and I;
this is the uniform the boys wear at G. M. C.,
Coressa
1932, Glenn
Eversole and Ann Warinner Eversole
1932, Glenn
Eversole and Ann Warinner Eversole
1919-20,
young ladies with hats, Flo Pearl is second from left
two unknown friends and Hamp Westbrook?
looks like the old Hackney house in London
1921,
two
unknown friends, Madge Eversole and Edith Williams on right
1921, unknown friend, Edith and Madge
1921, unknown friend, Edith and Madge
1921, Madge, unknown, Edith, unknown
1921, unknown, Edith and Madge
1923,
Left
to right: unknown, Glenn Eversole, Flo Pearl, unknown, unknown, unknown
Coressa
and H.B. Eberhart, H. Ben Eberhart and sister Coressa
Eberhart Chamblee (b. 1906 Chicago)[information about Coressa can be
found at http://news.rootsweb.com/th/read/CHAMBLEE/2000-11/0973623481
1.
(?) {Hilario Perpod
Cortena], 2. Bernice Woodward, 3. Herschel
Johnson, 4. Alice Ewell, 5. Tilford Harkleroad, 6. Mary Eva Jones, 7.
Robert Johnson, 8. Daisy Engle, 9. Nannie Cook, 10. Mabel Gill, 11.
Mary House, 12. Julia Nicholson?, 13 Mary Bishop (?), 14. Vera
Eversole, 15. Walter Chesnut, 16. Thelma Barnett, 17. Aubrey Feltner,
18. James Leo Watkins, 19. Emily Osborn (?), 20. Ernest Hornsby, 21.
Jwon?? Michael, 22. Sidney Fuller??, 23. Lucille Poynter, 24. Raymond
Black, 25. Gladys Casteel, 26. Ida Young, 27. Ercel Osborn (?), 28.
Lula Wyan, 29. Tradithan Estes, 30. Thurzia Quinlin or Hannah
Campbell, 31. Flo Pearl Eversole, 32. ? Dewey Asher?, Antonio Varona,
34. Edith Carnahan, 35. Grace McCracken, 36. Grace M. Hamilton, 37.
John B. Reams
information on back
of previous photograph