Dec. 1891 dance program and calling card for Maggie Smith my grandmother

 Mama Atwood was a young girl in Warren, Texas when she attended this dance at the Opera Hall.

It was Dec. 23,  1891

Great Grandmother Maggie Smith

My father's mother was named Margaret Ruth. Everybody called her Maggie when she was young. In the first picture she is in the center. On the left is her sister Mandy and the older lady is her mother Mary Stovall Smith. 

When Maggie was eleven years old her mother took her out of school so she could help in her boarding house. Maggie was very smart and talented; she would have like to have art lessons, she told Manning Atwood.

below is A hand-colored photo in which the image of Maggie was maintained while another unknown person's image was removed.

 

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Maggie had many suitors before she married John A. King.  This photo is of Thurston Rigsby, the man my father was named after.  My father Thurston was Maggie and Manning Atwood's youngest child, born in 1914.

Ma