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"The picture at the top is Wallace White's cabin, which is still standing in Cave Springs, Missouri. At the bottom is Wallace White and his wife Daisy White outside of their canebreak in Caves Springs, Missouri."

"That's a picture of my grandma [Mamie Berry] standing outside of the house, sometime in the 40s"

"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."

"That's William Berry, my great grandfather, who built the house that I live in, in 1873. He was born in 1849 and died 1917."

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…

"That's Olivia Murray when she graduated high school...no, university. She graduated from the University of Ohio."

Inscription on back could refer to Ruby Fletcher, later the executive of Murray's estate.

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

"That's Miss Olivia Murray when she was young...Olivia Murray, born 1897, died 1991."