Nellie Holland

Nellie Holland, daughter of Elijah Jeffers Holland and Cornelia Jane Dove, was born October 4, 1898 in Hart County, Georgia. By 1910, her family had moved to Whitfield County, Georgia. Nellie did housework for a living and played the organ at Deep Springs Baptist Church in Dalton. She contracted tuberculosis at the age of 20. She died at home in Deep Springs two years later. Nellie was buried in the church cemetery where her father was buried.

J.B. Anderson's class

This photo came from the personal collection of Bertha Edna Smith Athya, born January 24, 1898 in Paulton, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. Bertha was Edith McCrum Smith's sister. If you look closely, you'll see numbers on each person and luckily Bertha took the time to write names on the back.

1. Violet Barber Townsend
2. Jane Moor Zimmerman
3. Mary Boden Carnahan
4. J.B. Anderson (Teacher)
5. Betty Barber Harmon
6. Bertha Smith Athya

The last name for Violet and Bertha are married names. It has yet to be determined if that's the case for Jane, Mary, and Betty.

Edith McCrum Smith of Apollo, PA

Edith McCrum Smith's story is a sad one. The daughter of John Milton Smith and Amanda Larimer Horne, she was born in Apollo, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania on March 4, 1888. Like her sister Helen, she had heart trouble. She went blind at some point in her 18 years as a result of the measles. She never married or had children. According to her death certificate, Edith died of typhoid fever at Mercy Hospital at 7:30 a.m. on October 24, 1906. She had been attended by Dr. Joseph A. Baird from October 8 - 23, 1906. Her former or usual residence was the West Pennsylvania Institute for the Blind where she had resided for 16 days prior to her death. Edith shares a tombstone with her parents and Helen at Apollo Cemetery.