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Circa 1915 photo (see license plate) from "March We Onward: A History of First Baptist WR 1889-1989," which notes, "Sunday School Superintendent G. E. Henry out for an afternoon drive with his wife, Mrs. Bessie Henry, Sunday school teacher and active member of the W.M.U. Their daughter, Elizabeth, is the child in the photograph. Mrs. Lorraine Rainey, an active church member, is also in the picture. The man seated on the running board was Mr. H enry’s employer."
Part of a three-frame panorama taken by W. S. Hubbs; image courtesy of Gilbert S. Rainey. The book "Images of America: Walnut Ridge & Hoxie" notes for this photograph that "the view in this picture is looking down West Main Street at the intersection of SW and NW Front Streets. Visible are, from left to right, the Rhea Stables, owned by John A. Rhea; Z. C. Phelps & Company General Merchandise; and, partly, the Star Hotel across Main Street, with S. Ruffner's Groceries on the first floor."
Group portrait taken on March 6, 1921; from "March We Onward: A History of First Baptist WR 1889-1989," which identifies those in the picture as follows: "From left to right in the front row: A. Legate, the class president; Bob Surridge, first president of the class and future mayor of Walnut Ridge; Mrs. W. E. Kirkpatrick, teacher of the class and wife of the pastor; Marcus Teenor, holding the left side of the banner; Dr. Relton McCarrol, Orville Cutsinger, Clifton Kirkpatrick, holding the right side of the banner; Roland Smith, Paul Kirkpatrick, G. E. Henry, Roy Cutsinger, Dr. Len Downen; among those in the three back rows are: Jimmy Buster, Everett Webb, Ray Bickers, Pete McLeod, Red Spence, Clarence Jung, Toots Elkins, Happy Matthews, John Carter, O. E. Redwine, L. King, B. Bloomeyer, H. Butler, Elmer Pope, W. Lee, C. Thorn, E. Briggs, E. Hall, R. Morgan, Eugene Sells, L. Smith, and Cicero McCullough."