Guessed Right

Granted, there were many papers tucked in the packet that included the letter from my grandmother’s friend, Zemla Doke Griffith, about high school reunions and class gatherings in Fort Meade, Florida. While much of the material was organized and kept in one separate package by my grandmother, Rubie McClellan Davis, apparently one stray page escaped my attention until just last night.

It was a list, in order, of names of the members of the student body of 1912 as they appeared in the photograph commemorating that recognition night at Fort Meade High School in September, 1983.

When I first shared that photograph from an undated, unidentified newspaper source, you may recall that I had my guesses regarding the identity of the former Zemla Doke, my grandmother’s good friend (and evidently the official “Class Grumbler” for the Class of 1919).

Once quick glance at this page added to Zemla’s letter to Rubie confirms just which face matches up with her name—and gives us the opportunity to know the names of the rest of this group posing for their picture. Hopefully, just like you and me, someday some of their descendants will be searching for more information on them and will find this entry from Zemla gives them a peak into a bit of what went into the day to day lives of their ancestors, too.

Group picture:

Front row L to R.

Annabelle Lewis Wiggins

Maude Lightsey Jones

Zemla Doke Griffith

Maud McAuley (Don’s wife)

Edith McAuley Allen

Jeanette Rivers

Eva Rivers Sexton

Back Row L to R.

John “Buck” Enzor

Austin Clifton

Fred Bobbet

Lawrence Adams

Don McAuley

John Wingate

E. C. Botts

Wylie Rivers