Machipongo School Class, 1919-20
- First Row, 6 boys
- 1. ?
- 2. Marvin Kellam
- 3. William Bell
- 4. Dixie Doughty, wearing a dark suit
- 5.
- 6. Harold Bell, with hand over his mouth
- Cluster of 5 boys in left corner
- 1. Theron Bell (Only part of the face and the feet visible in the
- picture). His mother was Nellie Mapp, who married Theron Bell.
- Theron married Harriet Trower, Dr. Holland Trower?s daughter.
- 2. Walker Jackson, the son of Dr. J. Walker Jackson & Helen Kellam.
- 3? Probably a Kellam or Mapp
- 4. Could be a Gill?face partially hidden
- 5. Bruce Saunders
- Second Row
- 1. Elmer Sturgis
- 2. Howell Fowler
- 3. in sailor suit, Broadus Melson.
- 4. Louis Floyd, Also wearing a sailor suit.
- 5. in dark dress, Mariah Underhill. Her mother was Annie Bett
- Jacobs (Anna Elizabeth) her father, Ed Underhill.
- SECOND ROW
- 6. Grace Nottingham, wearing a white middy blouse and black scarf.
- Grace married Edgar Ward of Birdsnest.
- 7. Dorothy Melson. Her father, Capt. Bill Melson owned a store in
- Machipongo with Theron Bell, ?Bell & Melson.?
- 8. Lillian Jacob married Robert Oliver.
- 9. Thelma Miles. She married a Banes and is the mother of Miles
- Barnes, librian at the EasternShore Public Library.
- 10. Elizabeth Fowler married Kellam Turner. He was killed in WW
- II.
- 11. Marietta Melson( she is wearing white stockings), married an
- Eichelberger; after he died, she married Milton Hickman. Before his
- death he owned the Hickman Lumber Company.
- 12. Edith Rowe(wesaring a coat and high lace shoes).
- 13. Elsie Miles, sister of Thelma Miles, married Arthur Bennet. (she
- is wearing a little middy blouse.
- 14. Evelyn Sturgis, wearing black stockings.
- 15. Pauline Gibb, girl on the end wearing a hair bow.
- THIRD ROW
- 1. Marion Roberts
- 2. Helen Jacob married F. Tucker Wilkins. She is the sister of Lillian
- Jacob.
- 3. Jenny Mapp married Brig. General Albert Lake. Her brother,
- George Mapp, married Sue Holland.
- 4. Evelyn Heath was the original superintendent of the nurses at the
- hospital.
- 5. Virginia Gibb married Joseph Mapp of Birdsnest.
- 6. Margaret Rowe.
- 7. Frances Bailey Bell married Dr. H. Lankford Dunton.
- FOURTH ROW
- 1. Emma Trower Bell married Kenneth Beatty.
- 2. Lavinia Bradford.
- 3. Ethel Coates married Rufus Johnson.
- 4. Gladys Bell married James Rosser Marion. When he was drowned
- clamming off the Glebe, she married Herman Richardson.
- 5. Rosa Bell( wearing big tam), married Henry Griff of Baltimore,
- Maryland.
- 6. Virginia Mapp married Irving Buchanan.
- 7. Emory Lee Mapp married Victor Powell.
- 8. Ralph Fowler or George Mapp.
- 9. Marvin Miles.
- 10. Miss Imogene Ellis, teacher and principal.
- 11. Natalie Nottingham, daughter of Everett Nottingham of Wilsonia
- Neck.
- 12. Miss Heel, a teacher.
- 13. Sue Henderson, married Arthur Henderson, a teacher.
- FIFTH AND LAST ROW, 6 BOYS
- 1. George Underhill, brother of Mariah.
- 2. Frank Tilghman came from Maryland. He became a Methodist
- minister.
- 3. Jack Webb of Webb?s Island.
- 4. Elton Bowdoin Roberts, died Jan 7, 1927 in Washington D. C.
- Died within 12 days of of th death of Johnny Gibb (standing next to
- him) his is buried next to him and Maxwell Willett, a playmate.
- 5. Johnny Giobb died of heart trouble.
- 6. Marion Tilghman.
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