
Willard Vail & Betty Vail |

Russell S. Vail |

Donavon Vail age 10 1/2 mos |
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Front row: Russell, Paul, Virginia
Back row: (Eugene Everette) Gene and Donavon (Vail children)
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Elmer Kokenour and (Dora) Mabel Switzer (Mabel's first husband-- On the back she
refers to her husband as "Coke") |

Edwin and Bernard Foster
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(Carolyn) Callie Switzer Foster & Roy Foster
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Mervin Foster
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Left to Right: Sarah Viola Bricker Switzer, (Sarah Nellora) Nellie Switzer,
(Carolyn) Callie Switzer Foster, (Samuel) Roy Foster, Edwin Foster, Bernard
Foster |
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Mary Hellen Foster 8 months old born 16 Nov 1903 (someone added: Himegarner--her
married name) |

Mary Helen Foster Himegarner
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(Charles Ami) Dick Switzer
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Mervin Foster
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Betty Switzer (married to Dick Switzer--maiden name Betty Ruth Vancil) |

Sarah Bricker Switzer (added: birthplace of Donavon Vail 18 Sep 1903)
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Funeral card for Ami Switzer (Ami is Sarah Switzer's husband)
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Funeral card for Daniel Switzer (Daniel is Ami's father)
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Funeral card for Elmer Switzer (Elmer was
married to May Switzer Brown. He was injured in a RR accident and died a few
days later. It seems May remarried later to someone named Brown--but kept in
contact with the Switzer family.) |
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(Sarah Nellora) Nellie Switzer (this is my grandmother as a toddler)
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signed: With Love: Ethelyn Switzer Brown
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Nellie Switzer Parrish -- James E. Parrish -- Samuel E. Parrish (James was their
only child.)
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Writing on the back of Nellie's postcard sent to Samuel Parrish. They married in
1910. The postmark is unclear, but I assume they were "courting" at this time.
She lived in Table Grove and he lived in Ipava. |

This is a postcard picture of Nellie Switzer. No date or writing on the back.
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Nellie Switzer standing on the front porch.
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Nellie Switzer and 4 unidentified people. This was a postcard sent to Nellie. No
message written just the date Thurs, May 14-1908. |

James E. Parrish
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This is a postcard picture of Nellie Switzer (bottom right) and 4 unidentified
people. No date or writing on the back to tell who they are or explain the
flowers. |
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Aunt Mabel Carson, Nellie Parrish, Bud Carson, Betty Parrish (Mabel and Nellie
are sisters. Bud Carson was Mabel's 3rd husband--his real name is Charles
William Carson. Betty Parrish is James E. Parrish's wife -- my grandma. This
picture was taken abt. 1962 at the Carson home in Peoria, IL) |

James E. Parrish (Senior picture. Graduated from Canton High School 1930)
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Nellie Switzer
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Nellie Switzer taken Christmas 1980. She died in March 16, 1981. |

May Bailey Switzer Brown
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James E. Parrish
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F. Betty Phillips Parrish and James E. Parrish
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Sarah Bricker Switzer
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James G. Parrish, Betty Parrish, James E. Parrish (taken approx 1977) |
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Samuel Parrish is the man on the left. He worked as a meat cutter. In 1910 in
his wedding announcement from the newspaper, he is working at Gustine's Market
in Canton. I now he also worked for more than 10 years for Kroger. |

Frank Bricker
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Samuel Parrish is the man on the left.
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Samuel Parrish is the man on the left.
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Signed: With Love, Elmer Bailey Switzer
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Four of the women in the back are identified starting on far left: Sarah Bricker
Switzer; Mary Bricker Hamm; Cassie Bricker; two unidentified men; Amanda
Bricker. No one else is identified. |
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