1911 Walling/Elliott/Wilkinson Family Reunion




This picture came from Karen Michaelis. It's of a Walling/Elliott/Wilkinson
family reunion. George Elliott Wilkinson took this picture in 1911 
(though that doesn't explain why he's in it). Karen supplies most of the 
identifications. Can you identify any of the others?

1. Edna Kimball Bemiss, wife of #2
2. William Hartley Bemiss
3. Merle Kimball Bemiss, 90 years old as of 2000. Scott Coyle says he "was born on 10 August 
1910.  He looks about one year old in this picture - further evidence that the picture was 
taken at the 1911 reunion."
4. Laura Cordelia Walling, age 19
5. Probably either Marietta Marshall Walling at 13 or Marion Elizabeth Walling at 15
6. This was thought to be Harry Hartley, but Cheryl Kline positively identifies 
it as her grandfather Arthur Lee Hartley, born 16 Jan 1902.
7. Grace Ellen Marshall Walling
8. Mabel Kress Evans
9. Laura Lucinda Walling Hartley
10. Asenath Esther Walling Wilkinson  (married Arthur W. King about 1924, says Scott)
11. Roby Jane Walling Wilkinson
12. Walter Anson Wilkinson
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15. Maurice Emerson Wilkinson
16. Florence Esther Wilkinson Mann Higgins
17. Esther Hartley ???
18. Gladys Page
19. Moreland Pellor
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25. George Elliott Wilkinson
26. Harry James Kress
27. Norman Hartley Wilkinson (says Scott Coyle)
28. Mabel E. Hartley Wilkinson (Scott Coyle)
29. Anna Jane Hartley Bemiss
30. Genevieve Wilkinson Pellor
31. Blanche Pellor Zurl (living at 100 yrs. old in Eagle Bay, NY).
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36. Minnie Hartley, wife of Hartson Hartley
37. Ethel Beatrice Wilkinson Stilwell
38. Ralph Elliott Stilwell
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40. Emory Andrew Scott Walling
41. Gerald Page
42. Thomas Orlando Wilkinson
43. Norman Hartley Wilkinson
44. Cecil Page
45. George Sprague Wilkinson
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48. Harriet Elliott Stone
49. Adelbert Lee Kress (my father)
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52. Henry Smith Elliott
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54. Hulda Elliott Cherry
55. Lawrence Kress
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60. Mabel Hartley Wilkinson
61. Edith Hartley Evans
62. Jesse Wilkinson Brandow
63. Ethel Eades Hartley
64. Bertha Miller Kress
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Regarding the first three people, Shirley Bemiss Thompson maintains that 
the above identifications are correct, and when you look at the pictures 
she sent of Laura Lucinda's family elsewhere on this website, the 
resemblance is very close. But I still think there is a possibility that 
this is William Benson Walling, his wife Anna M. Bostwick Walling, and 
their daughter Henrietta Grace Walling b. 1/27/1910; and they are standing 
next to his father Judge Walling's family. Now, William Benson Walling was 
skinnier than that. His wife looks similarly distorted, but so does #26 at 
the other end of the picture, so maybe this is the fault the camera lens.