This picture of the congregation of
the Nashville church in November 1943 was supplied by Mary Price Crouch. I
am attaching her list of the persons depicted along with her notes regarding
the family relationships. After the list of people I am attaching
enlargements of the photograph by splitting it in half. The original picture
is 8" by 22.5" and in excellent shape.Back
Row left to right:
Reverend Thamer Steven,
Claude Shankland, Roy Lough, Russell Letton, Ellery
Kirby, Forrest Letton, Earl Taylor, Lloyd Mason,
Walter Pennington, Gay Pope, Aris Parker, Max Letton
son of Forrest and Naomi, Jake Wallace, Raydell Coss son
of Royden and Francis, Claude Crouch
Second Row:
Doris Dunlap
daughter of Glenn and Grace Berryhill Dunlap, Leota Wallace
daughter of Jake and Alta Wallace, ?, Elvira Kirby daughter
of Ellery and Ruby Kirby, Alice Clayton daughter of Eva Smith
(adopted), Alice Wallace daughter of Jake and Alta Wallace, Etta
Belle Mason daughter of Lloyd and Opal Mason, Opal Lough Mason,
daughter of Roy Lough and wife of Lloyd, Ruth Shankland Cotton
widow daughter of Claude Shankland, Ada Peterson Lough wife of
Roy and half sister of Everett Peterson, Grace Taylor Letton
daughter of Charles and wife of Russell Letton, Lottie Armstrong
daughter of Newt Armstrong and sister of Minnie Runnels, Mary Rogers
Johnston daughter of Tom and wife of "Big" Johnston, Myrtle Smith
wife of Gene Smith II, Phosa Shaw Pennington wife of Walter
Pennington, Annie Smith daughter of Gene Smith I and Belle Shapley
Smith, Naomi Senseney Letton daughter of Pete and wife of Forrest
Letton, Alta Davis Wallace daughter of Jim and Wife of Jake
Wallace, Francis Ferguson Coss daughter of Oscar and widow of
Royden Coss, Addie Pope Callison daughter of Oscar and widow of ?
Callison, Emma Crouch Parker daughter of Stephen and wife of Aris
Parker, Florence Ann Smith daughter of Gene Smith II and Myrtle,
Celis Letton daughter of Russell and Grace Letton, Rachel Wallace
daughter of Jake and Alta Wallace, Elizabeth Mason daughter of
Lloyd and Opal Wallace, Emma "Aunt Em" Crouch daughter of Ambrose
and sister of Stephen and widow of William Henry Crouch and mother of Claude
Crouch
Front Row:
Dale Cotton son
of Ruth Shankland Cotton, Gene Smith III son of Gene Smith II and
Myrtle, Harvey Letton son of Russell and Grace Letton, ?, ?,
Harold Mason son of Lloyd and Opal Mason, Norma Jean Wallace
daughter of Jake and Alta Wallace, Mary Jo Johnston daughter of
Mary Rogers Johnston and "Big" Johnston, Norma Jean Howery daughter
of Ralph Howery and Dimple Callison, Louise Smith daughter of Louis
Smith, Elaine Taylor daughter of Earl and Amy Taylor, Julia
Smith daughter of Gladys Overman Smith and Gordon Smith, Iris Kirby
daughter of Ruby and Ellery Kirby, ?, Mona Cotton daughter of
Ruth Shankland Cotton, Majorie Nell Stevens daughter of Reverend
Thamer Stevens, ?, Vera Delores Stevens daughter of Reverend Thamer
Stevens, Murlene Stevens daughter of Reverend Thamer Stevens
Reverend Steven's wife is not in photograph and her
name is unknown. All Smiths are descendants of Glen Smith I and Belle
Shapley. No one knew or can remember "Big" Johnstons real first name.
(The internet is far reaching. I have received an
email from Juanita Bergman Johnston - married to a nephew of "Big Johnston.