Grandma Violet Gill Crashes Picture Day at Prairie Hill School
This picture is of my Grandmother Violet Gill's older brother Raymond's school class from 1910. He is the third one from the right on the front row, and my Grandmother Violet is the second one from the right in the second row. She was only five then but wanted to go to school, so she and the girl beside her dressed up and went for picture day. My Grandmother loved to read and wanted to go to high school. However, back then, girls usually didn't attend school much after age 12 or 13 unless they were from an affluent family. Instead, they would work at home to help the family, especially if they lived on a farm. This picture survived a tornado in about 1914, which blew their house away. Although I have touched it up, the back of the image below has not been edited.