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Nellie's Family


Pewter lamp.
This lamp came from Germany with Nellie's grandparents Peter and Margaret Young. Her memoirs include a poem she wrote asking this lamp questions about that part of her family.


Margaret Cause Hook Parry.


Grandpa Parry. His sister Sarah Francis. Grandma's sister Esther Carter.


Mary, Anna, and Oscar Parry.


William Young (Nellie's father).


Mary Parry Young (Nellie's mother).


Ca 1899. Nellie's maternal grandparents and their descendents.

Standing in back: Oscar Parry, William Young, Anna Parry Garrett, Ed Garrett.

Seated: Grandpa Parry (John Parry), Mary Elizabeth Parry Young (holding Cyrus Albion Young), Grandma Parry (Margaret Hook Parry)
Standing in front: Anna Margaret Young.

This picture was taken before Nellie was born; Anna was 15 years older than Nellie and Cy was 12 years older.

Nellie.


Viola (Nellie's first cousin), Nellie, and Berenice (Nellie's niece).

William Young's family.

Back row: Anna and Charlie Faler.

Front row: Papa (William), Berenice, Mamma (Mary), Nellie, and Cy.

1912. Waverly District School No 107. Jessie Newman, Teacher.
Seated in back seat of car: Cody sisters (Lillie and Lida), Nellie Teets.
Seated in 2nd seat of car: another Cody sister, Theresa Earhart (Tom Smiley's niece).
Holding sign: Acy Cody.
Others in the picture (it's unclear from what Nellie wrote on the back of the picture which child is which): John Earhart and Maurice Earhart (probably seated on the running board), Ora Hansen and Albert Stewart (probably the tall boys standing next to the school building).


Berenice Faler.


Viola Garrett.


1926. Waverly School House. Viola Garrett Jones - Teacher. Ruth and Carl Young - 4th grade. Carl is the boy on the left in front of the school.

Donna, Nellie, Forest, Uncle John P. White (top row).

Paul, Elsie, and Pauline Teets; Eureath White (2nd row)

Grandma White, Grandma Young, Aunt Effie (front row)


Ca 1930. Nellie's mother Mary Young in front of her house in Douglass, Kansas.

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