Pictures Shared by our Friends

crenshaw_ruth.jpg (718720 bytes) Ruth Crenshaw in front of Esquire Restaurant ca 1940's located on Hwy 79 and managed by Ruby Crenshaw (my grandmother). Ruth is my mother's sister, thus my Aunt.

Donated by Rubyann Darnell
crenshaw_ruth-blackman_tiny.jpg (884338 bytes) Ruth Crenshaw & Tiny Blackman in Mississippi River

Donated by Rubyann Darnell
soda_team.jpg (46744 bytes) Mother (Melba) said her dad (Riley Crenshaw) managed some baseball teams in Pike County, Missouri in the 1930’s and this might have been one of them although Thurmond Cooper doesn’t identify him as the manager when June Groshong (of Lincoln County, Missouri) sent this photo in 2005.

June says those pictured were identified by Thurmond Cooper (all left to right):
Front row: Joe Mackey (Bat boy), [unknown child], Riley Crenshaw
Middle row: Wick Taylor, Bill Black, Ellis Robertson, Carroll Wells, Chas. Mendonsa, Abie Asbridge.
Back row: Bill Naxera, Virgil Hamilton, Thurmond Cooper, Bob Blackman, Jim Morris, Roscoe Barnes, Greg Applegate, George Parish.

Donated by Rubyann Darnell

 

1. "Pike County, Missouri, People, Places & Pikers" compiled and edited by Karen Schwadron 
     (Jostens Publishing Co, Marceline, MO 64658: Pike County Historical Society, 1981)

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