Figure 1.--The photo was taken on August 14, 1890 in Greenfield, Missouri. It shows Napoleon Cook, Margaret Mitchell and eight of their children. Left to right back to front the children are: McFloyd (b. 1877), Mauna Loa (1874), Henry Cornelius (1872), Thomas Leslie (1881), Edith Viola (1886), Eudora (1879), William Andrew Jackson (1889) and Martha Melzora (1883). Another son (Ernest) was dead as a baby (1884) and the last daughter (Ina Euris) will be born in 1892. The child at the lower right front wearing a plaid dress looks like a boy, but she is a girl--Martha.

The photo was taken on August 14, 1890 in Greenfield, Missouri. It shows Napoleon Cook, Margaret Mitchell and their large family. This was fairly ciommon st the time. They are presumably a farm family. The eight children are left to right back to front: 1) Back Row: McFloyd (b. 1877), Mauna Loa (1874), and Henry Cornelius (1872); center row: Thomas Leslie (1881), Edith Viola (1886), Eudora (1879), and William Andrew Jackson (1889); front: Martha Melzora (1883). Another son (Ernest) was dead as a baby (1884) and the last daughter (Ina Euris) will be born in 1892. The child at the lower right front wearing a plaid dress looks like a boy, but she is a girl--Martha. The girls in the family have rather boyish hair cuts.

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