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"That's Drucella Berry, that's my aunt. She was born around 1908 in Ash Grove..that's my dad's oldest sister. My grandma Berry was married in 1907 and a year later they had Drucella."

Portrait of Fanny Murray, mother of Olivia Murray

Member of the Looney Family, said to be one of the men lynched in the 1906 Good Friday lynching of Springfield, Missouri. From the collection of John Freeman, a native of Ash Grove, Missouri.

"That's a lady who lived in this town, that's one of my relatives, and I think that her [surname] is Carlock. They called her... I'm not sure. I've heard her referred to as Faye Carlock...she was one of the Carlock ladies. Basically what I've heard…

Unknown man, photograph from the estate of Olivia Murray of Ash Grove, Missouri.

"That is an unknown fellow, one of the relatives of Miss Olivia Murray. We think it's, perhaps, her nephew. We don't know anything else about it...This was given to me by a lady named Ms. Ruby Fletcher who was a white lady who lived in this town, and…