Photograph of the Worden family. Mrs. Baxter Worden was instrumental in the Baptist Church offering their church building to the town for a library (1917).
From June Van Alstyne (received 12/14/2011)
Doris and Cora (great grandaughters of Baxter Holbrook Worden - he was June's great great grandfather) have both identified the people in the picture as Baxter Holbrook Worden and his wife Ellen Marie (Grout) Worden. The children (as they seem to be all girls except the smallest baby) would be their first 5 children: Cora Elizabeth (b1870), Mabel Nancy (b1872), Mariah (Maria) Leonard (b1875), Hattie May (b1879) and Edward Burton (b1881). This would put the date of the picture as late 1881 as Edward Burton was born in April of that year. They also had a 6th child, Clifford Henry (b1889).
June van Alstyne has provided (via email) a copy of another photograph from the Worden family, showing from left to right Worthy George Worden, Marcus Worden and Baxter Holbrook Worden. Worthy and Baxter are half brothers. Both are Marcus' sons, but Baxter is the son of first wife Nancy Ann Ward while Worthy George is the son of second wife Phebe Lucinda Prouty.
