FRANKTOWN HIGH SCHOOL, CLASS OF 1923
- Back Row
- 1. John Edmund Tankard, VPI, Harvard Horticulture School, married
- Harriet Brandon, Randolph Macon. He was one of the original owners
- of Tankard Nursery.
- 2. George Temple Jarvis, Machipongo, married Marguerite Dunton.
- They lived in a house at end of Wilsonia Neck on hill over looking the
- Bay.
- 3. Jack Nottingham
- 4. Paul Turner
- 5. Nathaniel Potter ?Pott? Henderson, became a pharmacist, married
- Birdie from Farmville, VA
- 6. Reed Ennis
- 7. Jesse Floyd of Happy Union, graduate of VPI; once brought home a
- handsome tall Chinese schoolmate. Jesse became successful in Chicago
- and then died in 1941.
- 8. Principal, Grover Cleveland Hamilton
- SECOND ROW, SEATED YOUNG WOMEN
- 1. Lolita Ames, married Thomas Ashby
- 2. Mary Fox, Soule Fox?s daughter, married 1) H. Milligan, who died
- early, and then 2) Shirley Chandler, Dr. of dental surgery.
- 3. Helen Walker, daughter of Otha and Helen Hurtt Walker of
- Franktown, studied home economics at Temple University, married
- Everett ?Put? Nottingham, Wilsonia Neck.
- 4. Mary Hamilton Williams, daughter of Mamie Belote and John
- Williams, a musician from Baltimore. Mary married Hamilton Walker
- in 1928, mother of Herman Belote Walker.
- 5. Louise Lankford, Franktown, daughter of Charlie Lankford, Sr. sister
- of Judge Charlie Lankford, graduated from Fredericksburg.
- SECOND ROW
- 6. Pearl Dunton, daughter of Ellebee Dunton. The family lived in
- Weirwood where the airport is now
- 7. Gladys Bell, married 1) James Rosser Marion who drowned while
- clamming off the Glebe 2) Herman Richardson.
- 8. Marguerite Dunton, daughter of Devereaux and Clara Walker Dunton
- of Bayford, attended Mary Baldwin College, married George T. Jarvis
- on back row.
- 9. Mary Mapp, daughter of Ivan Mapp, graduated from either Randolph-
- Macon, taught for years, moved to Seattle. Her sister Louise Mae Mapp
- Johnson was visiting her at time of Mt. St. Helena erruption and wrote
- a graphic descripcription for Eastern Shore News. Mary has since died.
- FRONT ROW
- 1. Mr. Lybis, science teacher
- 2. May Kellam
- 3. Norwood ?Sleepy? Henderson, graduated from VPI, started
- Henderson orchards.
- 4. Johnny Ward
- 5. J. Fred Floyd (with dog), married 1) Julia Hyslop Bull 2) Vanessa
- Jacob, grandaughter of Charles Van Ness. Fred was named for his uncle
- the well known horse breeder and physician, Dr. G. Fred Floyd. Lived
- at Sycamore Lodge in Johnsontown.
- 6. Everett ?Put? Nottingham married Helen Walker.
- 7. Samuel Ashby, married Genevieve Steel from Cape Charles.
- 8. Carter Powell
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