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Photo from Ray Don Bostian's Collection
This photo may have been taken in 1915 while the Skippers still lived near Round Mountain in Conway County Arkansas. Naomi Skipper looks like she was about 7 or 8 years old. The women are (from the left) Ida Skipper, Carl Toby's wife; Maggie Skipper, John Quincy's wife; and Jo Skipper, Jim's wife. Ray Don says the women were playing the parts of three drunken gambling men to entertain the family. Jo was about 25 then and Maggie, about 34.
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Ray Don also sent me this photo of my Grandfather Jim. It may have been taken between 1910 and 1915; he would have been around 30 at that time. Or it may have been in the early 1920's when he would have been 40.
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Around 1925 the two older Skipper brothers, John and Jim, went to Oklahoma to visit their two younger sisters, Ethel and Elmer. Rosie Elmer was married to John Edwards and Ethel was married to Jim Turner. John Q. had re-married. His second wife was a widow named Martha. The distance from England, AR, to eastern Oklahoma was around 250 miles. My father is the little boy in the lower righthand corner. I believe this photograph was taken with a Kodak
Signature
camera and that the photographer used the
horizontal
part of the viewfinder to compose the picture, thus leaving out John Q. Skipper on the left and Irving and Jim Skipper on the right. Those pictured are: Adults: Martha, John Q.'s second wife holding John Q. Jr.; Rosie Elmer and John Edwards; Ethel and Jim Turner; and Josie Skipper (Jim Skipper is probably beside Josie). Teenagers: Adam Bradley Skipper, Millard Turner, George Quincy Skipper, Paul Turner and Thelma Skipper (Irving may be standing beside her with his shoulder in view and the shadow of his head on her shoulder. The young ones are Ione and Adeline Turner; Winnie Skipper; Glenn and Dub, Martha's sons by a previous marriage; and Pauline and James Skipper in the lower right. I will have to check later pictures to see exactly which child is which.
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This photo of the post office and postal employees must have been taken near the end of Jim's term as postmaster. Jim's younger brother, Carl Toby, and one of Jo's relatives, a Krisell, are employees.
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