Leaves of My Family Tree

Photography – A New Beginning

I have been interested in photography for many years but I haven’t ever really took the time and effort to pursue it as a true hobby. I have decided to change that!

I joined the Photographic Society of Northwest Arkansas this past week and I have already attended my first event with the group! This morning I went to the Mobile Phone Photography Techniques. (IPhonography) – iPhones and Androids event at Hobbs State Park. Melissa L Jones taught the class and gave some great pointers on using cell phone cameras along with some apps to enhance our photos.

After the class, I spent some time walking the trails and taking some photos. I took about 180 photos and I have selected a few of the best to show here. Remember these are the beginning of my photography journey and some of the first photos I have taken with my iPhone. I have been an Android user but I recently got the iPhone 6s and I am just learning to use both the phone and the camera!

This slideshow requires JavaScript.

Unknown 55

This photo contains one or more person(s) that I am currently unable to identify. If you can provide any informaion (even a guess is a starting place), please email me at Genealogy@ksthompson.com with your information!

The photos in my unknown photo collection could come from either my mother’s family (Treat, Lawrence, and related family lines) or my father’s family (Thompson, Stout, and related family lines).

Also, my Great-Aunt Mabel (Stout) Parsons was a school teacher in the Springdale schools for many years so some of the photos may be of her students.

Unknown 54

The photos in my unknown photo collection could come from either my mother’s family (Treat, Lawrence, and related family lines) or my father’s family (Thompson, Stout, and related family lines).

Also, my Great-Aunt Mabel (Stout) Parsons was a school teacher in the Springdale schools for many years so some of the photos may be of her students.

Unknown 51

The photos in my unknown photo collection could come from either my mother’s family (Treat, Lawrence, and related family lines) or my father’s family (Thompson, Stout, and related family lines).

Also, my Great-Aunt Mabel (Stout) Parsons was a school teacher in the Springdale schools for many years so some of the photos may be of her students.

Unknown 50

The photos in my unknown photo collection could come from either my mother’s family (Treat, Lawrence, and related family lines) or my father’s family (Thompson, Stout, and related family lines).

Also, my Great-Aunt Mabel (Stout) Parsons was a school teacher in the Springdale schools for many years so some of the photos may be of her students.

Tombstone Tuesday: Jonothan Benjamin and Sarah Lydia Gabbard Stout

Jonothan Benjamin and Sarah Lydia Gabbard Stout are my 2nd Great-Grandparents and the parents of my Great-Grandfather Claude James and his brothers Clyde and Clifford who have been featured in recent Tombstone Tuesday posts. They are buried in Kingston Cemetery, Kingston, Madison, Arkansas.

Tombstone Photo - Sarah L Gabbard Stout Tombstone Photo

Tombstone Photo - Jonothan B Stout Tombstone Photo

Originally Published on Sep 20, 2011

Tombstone Tuesday is a daily blogging prompt used by many genealogy bloggers to help them post content on their sites.

To participate in Tombstone Tuesday simply create a post which includes an image of a gravestone of one or more ancestors and it may also include a brief description of the image or the ancestor.

Unknown 49

The photos in my unknown photo collection could come from either my mother’s family (Treat, Lawrence, and related family lines) or my father’s family (Thompson, Stout, and related family lines).

Also, my Great-Aunt Mabel (Stout) Parsons was a school teacher in the Springdale schools for many years so some of the photos may be of her students.

Amanuensis Monday: Stout Canning Company Letter

stout---stout-canning-company-letter July 1, 1949

Stout Canning Company
Kingston
Arkansas

Gentlemen:

We are about to get a canners finance company set up and in this connection would like for you to meet the writer at the Mountain Inn Hotel in Feyetteville, Wednesday night, July 8th at which time we will have dinner together. The present idea is that each canner can establish a line of credit up to the amount of twenty times their stock so that it is proposed that we start off by each canner paying 10 per cent of the amount of stock he wishes to take. This is one of the preliminary matters we would like to get out of the way Wednesday night.

It is impossible for the writer to see every canner individually so we are trying to get groups together and get this all done next week. This is very important so please arrange without fail to be there at that time.

Yours truly,

Canners Exchange, Inc.

Originally Published on Jan 30, 2012

Amanuensis Monday is a daily blogging prompt used by many genealogy bloggers to help them post content on their sites.

An Amanuensis is a person employed to write what another dictates or to copy what has been written by another. Amanuensis Monday is a daily blogging theme which encourages the family historian to transcribe family letters, journals, audiotapes, and other historical artifacts. Not only do the documents contain genealogical information, the words breathe life into kin – some we never met – others we see a time in their life before we knew them. A fuller explanation can be found here.

Amanuensis Monday is a popular ongoing series created by John Newmark at Transylvanian Dutch.

Unknown 48

The photos in my unknown photo collection could come from either my mother’s family (Treat, Lawrence, and related family lines) or my father’s family (Thompson, Stout, and related family lines).

Also, my Great-Aunt Mabel (Stout) Parsons was a school teacher in the Springdale schools for many years so some of the photos may be of her students.

Tombstone Tuesday: WE and Flora Elizabeth “Lizzie” Thompson Stroud

Lizzie Thompson Stroud was my Great-Great Aunt, the sister of my Great-Grandfather Vern Thompson. They are buried in Kingston Cemetery, Kingston, Madison, Arkansas.

Flora Elizabeth “Lizzie” Thompson and WE Stroud Tombstone Photo

Originally Published on Sep 27, 2011

Tombstone Tuesday is a daily blogging prompt used by many genealogy bloggers to help them post content on their sites.

To participate in Tombstone Tuesday simply create a post which includes an image of a gravestone of one or more ancestors and it may also include a brief description of the image or the ancestor.