This post
card was never mailed, but on the back is written "June 13th 1910," in
the message area and "Beulah Rynerson, Monticello, Iowa," in the address
area.
Nedra Hanken writes: "Regarding the 1910 picture of teacher
and pupils of a rural school with only the name Beulah Rynerson on the
back with the date. I believe that is a picture of the teacher and
pupils of the rural school that used to be across the gravel road from
the Bowens Prairie cemetery. My mother, Else Mathilde Behrends is the
girl on the teacher's immediate left with her hand near her face, she
would have been 11 years old in 1910. Her younger sister, Alma is in the
back row second from the teacher's right. Her brother Willie (William
R.) may be the boy on the far right of the picture and her younger
brother Elwill may be the smallest boy in the picture. Her family lived
on a farm across the road from the Aitchison farm. The farmstead was
demolished to make way for a 4-lane 151. I remember her mentioning
Eileen Aitchison as a schoolmate and also some Schneiters."
