The photograph above is of the first house Mother and Daddy lived in after they moved back to Missouri. The woman with her back to us is my grandmother Anna Lillian Smith Sherman, and the child peeking over the fence is my sister Duane Sherman Moxley Bowling (Yes, that is really her name!) The house was on what we call the westside of the farm, down the gravel road that leads from Highway E just east of the Santa Fe Railroad track, then south to what is now Ingalls Road. Here's an aerial of the area and I marked where the two houses we lived in were in relation to other farms. The thin red line is approximately the farm that Daddy worked. We didn't own the land, but sharecropped for Charles Waugh - who also didn't own most of it. During my childhood the farm was called the Turney estate and was owned by two sisters in Iowa, and managed by their nephew Dillon Turney. After Dillon's death the land went to his four daughters, who have since divided and sold the land.
Aerial view of the farm. Click on the image to see more of Rothville
Below are pictures of my family. Click on the images to be taken to each members' photos.