So my sister and I were going through old family photos recently, and look what we came across!

A photo of "Kepner Reunion, Sept. 22, 1901" !!

Unfortunately, we don't have any "key" to the photo, to know who any of the people are.

The only thing it says on the back is:
H.E.Sewell
Photographer
Galveston, IND.

So we don't even know for sure that the reunion was held in Galveston. But given that a great many Kepner's ended up in Carroll County (just West of Galveston) and many seemed to have come to Hamilton County (Northeast of Indianapolis), it does seem like a likely location. I believe there was train or even interurban service between Indianapolis and Kokomo, for example.

Anyway, Galveston, IN, is on the road from Kokomo to Logansport (U.S. Hwy 35), at the intersection with State Hwy 18 (from Delphi and Flora), about a third of the way from Kokomo. It's not too far from Grissom AFB, which I have seen mentioned in messages here.

I have posted a 150 dpi scan of the photo on our website at
http://www.ClearviewDesign.com/genealogy/KepnerFamilyReunion...

Naturally, the quality is only fair at that resolution., but even that picture is 130KB in size. If you think you might have had relatives attend the reunion back in 1901, and can't tell from that resolution, just email me and I'll send you a higher resolution copy of it.

The one person I do believe I have picked out in the photo is my great-great grandmother, Mary Nancy Kepner Gardner. She was born Nov 23, 1841, and died Oct 30, 1921. (She lived to see my mother, her great-granddaughter, born in April, 1921.)

I believe that she is in the front row of seated figures, the fourth from the right (the leftmost of four women seated there).

So... Does anyone have any idea who any of the other figures are? Particularly the patriarch who is seated just to her right (our left) in the wicker chair?

Bill Wilkinson

p.s. I also have a couple of earlier photos of Mary Nancy Kepner Gardner as well as photos of Jacob Kepner and his wife, Mary Magdaline Groninger Kepner. Both were born in Juniata County, PA, area and moved to Carroll County, Indiana, late in life (after their youngest daughter, Mary Nancy, was born, certainly). If these people are in your direct line and you would like copies, please let me know.