Frank Black and Hazel Sterling Collins wedding photo 1953.
Mary Matilda Brown Sterling
Ambrose Wake Carlton and wife Mary Jane Jackson
Elmer Carlton with big brother Billy Carlton.
Obituary of Everett Carlton
Uiyssis Grant Carlton, wife, Josephine and son Everett in front of their home in Johnson County Illinois.
Jim Collins, wife Hazel and daughter,Jimmie Clydette in front of the Sterling residence, 14F Oleander Homes, Galveston, Texas 1947.
Shirley "Sue" Demmitt Lackey with her husband Buddy Lackey.
Nancy Louise Edwards Oliver
Anne Margarete (Erickson) Fahey
Ambrose Wake Carlton and wife Mary Jane (Jackson)
Inger Marie (Jensen) Larsen
Evelyn Josephine (Larsen) Fahey
Laura (Larsen) and husband Pete Harris, 1965
Margaret (Larsen) and Glen Flarity
Inger Marie (Jensen) and Niels Larsen
Harriet Sterling and Ann, Thomas, Robert and William.
Gideon Pillow McClendom and family.
George Washington McWilliams and wife, Charlotte (Molder)
Joseph Allison McWilliams
Martha Custus McWilliams Sims
Plaque on Newlin Grist Mill
Standing: Mamie Carlene Nobles, Roy Maloy Nobles, Edgar Nobles, Audie (Shorty) Nobles;
Seated: Roxy Ward Nobles (wife of Roy), Roy Delois Nobles (son of Roy), Ellen Oliver Nobles, John Alexander Nobles; taken about 1922.
Dorothy Ragains Critcher, 2001
The Ragains Children 1917. Elizabeth Maude (left) Emma Louise (center) Martha Katherine (right) and Frank Edward in the stroller.
Emma Lou (Ragains) Sterling 1962
Malinda Maude Sims Ragains and Frank Ragains.
Margaret Ruth Ragains Hines
Katherine Ragains Demmitt
Connie Wilburton Seigrist
George Harvey Seigrest and Cynthia M. " Maggie" Ehrart
George Warren Seigrist and wife Nellie Mae Foster
Matilda Ann Seigrist Sterling with sons Luther Eurvin and baby Clyde Leroy. about 1916.
Belle Mattie (Sims) Roberts
Emma Zazelle Sims and her niece Emma Louise Ragains Sterling
Malinda Maude (Sims) Ragains
Martha Eudora "Dora" Sims McClendon and family.
Charles Clifford Sterling.
Charles Ell Sterling, l. in U. S. Army uniform and r. in his pre induction cowboy days.
Luther Sterling in California, 1953
William "Bill" Sterling at Ragains Reunion in 2001
Sterling boys and parents, 1952, l.r. Luther Eurvin, Clyde Leroy, Matilda Ann, William Jefferson, Charles Clifford, Harry Edward.
The County Line Baptist Church sits on the Pope and Johnson Illinois County lines. This church is over 150 years old having been built and rebuilt several times. My GGG Grandfather James Moffitt Triplet, my GG Grandfather Ambrose Wake Carlton and my GG Grandfather David Abraham Ragains were listed as this church's earliest ministers.
Note by Charles Edward Sterling.
Sophronia A. (Tune) Ragains