Later Life and Death of Tennessee Almira James nee Lane

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FAMILY REUNION AT HOME OF SOLON JAMES, 1916

The identities below were given by Allen James, about fifty years later. She couldn't identify very many of them.

Front row, left to right:

1. Girl with white stockings

2. Ivan James

3. Willard James

4. Norman W. (Cotton) James

5. Girl, with ribbons in hair

6. Raymond James (kneeling)

7. Euchalata James (kneeling)

8. Girl between Raymond and Euch

9. Child

10. Girl with hands behind her

11-14. Next four boys, sitting on ground

15. Girl in black dress

16. Girl in light dress

17. Woman in white. A nurse?

18. Tilda Harlan

19. Ab Harlan

20. Alex Copeland

21. Mrs. Copeland

22. Tennessee A. (Lane) James

23. Solon James

24. William Whig James

25. Ada, wife of Lorenzo James

26. Baby in Ada's lap

27. Malinda Ann James, in black dress

28. Aurelius James, in Malinda Ann's lap

29. Mance Hillen

30. Mary E. A. James

31. Small boy in chair

32. Girl in dark dress

33. Man in black hat

34. Baby in man's lap

35. Child in white, leaning on man

 Back row, left to right:

1. Bert James?

2. Lucinda Miller James

3. Baby in arms

4. Opal Irene James, Bert's daughter

5. Cherokee James (grey dress, black belt)

6. Charlotte Hampton, friend of "Aunt Tenn"

7. Maggie James, wife of Cal James

8. Jessie James

9. Small child

10. Lula Huggins

11. Riley Copeland

12. Houston James

13. Howell Kelly

14. Man behind, face half hidden

15. Homer James

16. Blanche, wife of Jesse Lamar James

17. Two men behind, virtually invisible

18. Woman

19. Another woman

20. Cal (Calvin Garrett) James

21. Man behind Cal

22. Man behind, with suspenders

23. Man with bow tie

24, Another man, with bow tie

25. Man behind

26. Man by tree

27. Woman in black, at right of tree

28. Woman behind, with dark glasses?

29. Woman in dark blouse

30. Person behind

31. Man in vest and hat

32. Man in coat and hat

33. Baby in man's arms

34. Man in dark, with boy

35. Boy in man's arms

36. Heavy woman? in dark clothing

37. Allen James (wife of Irvin), in white blouse

38. Woman behind Allen

39. Woman with white collar

40. Woman in dark dress

41. Woman behind, white collar

42. Man wearing bow tie and hat

43. Woman

44. Man in bow tie and coat, not much hair

45. Ada James, wife of Price James

46. Lewis James (small boy) son of Ada and Price James

47. Man in straight tie

48. Jennie James

Entry in notebook of George Solon Huggin: 

Death Takes Mrs. Tennessee James At the Age of 95
Mrs. Tennessee James died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Lula Huggins, near Grove, at 12:15 a.m. today. She was 95 years. old.

Mrs. James moved with her husband, Solon James, from Cherokee county, Kansas, in 1870, to what is now known as Ottawa county. She has lived in and around Ottawa county for 73 years.
Besides Mrs. Huggins, she is survived by another daughter, Mrs. Walter Copeland of Welch; four sons, C. G. James of Fairland, L. D. James of Blythe, Calif., J. L. James of Maimi and Claude James of Bremerton, Wash.; 29 grandchildren, 30 great-grandchildren and three great-great-grandchildren.
Funeral services will be held at 2:00 clock Wednesday afternoon at the Hickory Grove church in Delaware county. Burial will be in the Miami G. A. R. cemetery

Miami, Oklahoma

The Note I Left on the Virtual Grave of FindaGrave.com along with the virtual forget-me-not-flowers.

Learning about you through ancestry research has been an incredible journey. I only wish I could have really known you. What a strong woman you were. I am so glad I carry your genes.