A Quartet of Butler County Photos
submitted by Linda Frey Bayliss

Horace Wheeler Family Photo

Photograph circa 1890-1895 Unidentified Little Girl

Samuel Overturf Home

Eileen Anne Feeney-Day

Anne Cornelia Bailey, Guy Bailey, Elizabeth "Betty" Louise Bailey, Earl Russell Bailey, circa 1917

Earl Russell Bailey

John A. Shannon and his wife Elizabeth
Shannon was a carpenter credited with building the Clarksville Hotel; photo submitted by Cliff Westphal

William Henry Bonwell and Family
In front of their home in Section 25, Fremont Township, about 1900; photo submitted by Cliff Westphal

Benson Case and his wife Jennie Bartles Cain Case
Shell Rock, Iowa. Submitted by Hubert K. Peal. "Benson Case (1833-1923) married Jennie Bartles Cain. Jennie (1851-1943) was my great-grandmother. Benson was my step-great-grandfather."

Clarinda "Callie" Cain Bigsby
Submitted by Hubert K. Peal. "Clarinda (1872-1924; buried in New Hartford, IA) was the daughter of Jennie Bartles Cain and the step-daughter of Benson Case. She married Hubert 'Bert' Bigsby."

Hubert B. "Bert" Bigsby
July 25, 1870 - March 01, 1919
Farmer/Blacksmith
Submitted by Hubert K. Peal.

Hubert and Clarinda Cain Bigsby
Submitted by Hubert K. Peal.

Julia Cain (Julia Cain Green?)
Submitted by Hubert K. Peal. From Mr. Peal: "H. C. Eberhart, the Traveling Photo Artist who took the picture. was in Tama county in 1884 and Shell Rock in 1889 - 1891. There also was an H. C. Eberhart in Reinbeck.They thought he worked in the 1880's and 1890's."

Can you help identify Mom's Aunt Isabelle?
Submitted by Hubert K. Peal. "This is a photo with the inscription Mom's Aunt Isabelle. We don't know which lady is Isabelle and we don't know her surname. The photo was in with Bigsby and Case family pictures."

Gyneth Case at Fred and Nellie Dorman's farm
Submitted by Laverna and Hubert Peal.

Photo of Fred Dorman
Back row: Fred Dorman and his father; front row on left: Benson Cora Case and unknown friend or relative on right.
Submitted by Laverna and Hubert Peal.

1924 New Hartford Postcard
Submitted by Laverna and Hubert Peal.

Unidentified Family
"The people in this photo are not identified. We think they might be related to the Bigsby or Case family.
The picture was taken by Webb in Shell Rock, Iowa."
Submitted by Hubert K Peal

Warren Bolton
"Photo taken of Warren Bolton age 7 mos who was a friend or relative of my mother. It's an old photo on a postcard possibly from around 1918."
Submitted by Hubert K Peal

Adrian Ingalls and children
The children are his sons Ernest and John, and his stepdaughter, Marie Bigsby, the daughter of Dora Ingalls. The photo probably dates from around 1925.
Submitted by Laverna and Hubert Peal.

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