Volume 6 , Issue 39

The Alva Group Photo

"Joy Sherman has n old commemorative edition of the Courier which contained the same picture in a 1938 publication. It did not identify the people in the picture, but it did say that the group was the First Grand Jury in Woods County. Because of that statement, I assume that this picture was made in 1907 when â??Mâ?? County was dissolved and Woods County came into being.

I looked in a 1903 10th Anniversary of Woods County edition that had a lot of prominent citizens pictured, but had little luck in matching any of them with the people in the jury pictures. Judging from picture comparisons, I think it's possible that the man on the far left in the center-row could be George Crowell (early Alva lumber, grain elevator and developer); and the man second from the right on the back-row (next to your grandfather Bill) could be F. P. Alexander who ran the Federal Land Office at the time of the run of â??93 and for several years thereafter.

The only other ones that we could come up with names for was the second from the left on the middle-row (possibly W. F. Hatfield) and third from the left on the middle-row, who might be L. W. Moore. None of those are positives, however, as they are based solely on similarities to other photos within that 1903 edition."

1st Jury of "M" County - "Joy also had another picture, which I think has run in your e-zine before, showing the first Grand Jury of M County. The names are provided, but we don't know whose name goes with which. They were listed this way: 1. Judge McAtee; 2. R. B. Furgerson (Ferguson?) (Bailiff); 3. J. A. Walters; 4. F. C. Dann (Darr?); 5. H. H. George; 6. C. E. McDaniels; 7. Jno. Olody; 8. W. S. McDonald; 9. Jno. Young; 10. E. H. Green; 11. A. F. Bowels; 12. A. J. Hudley; 13. West (Clerk); 14. J. T. Adams; 15. Fred Berringer (Bailiff); and 16. Ross Kerr." -- Jim   |  View or Add Comments (0 Comments)   |   Receive updates ( subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

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