I haven't that many photos of Dad's family but more than I thought, and I'll do these first chronologically.
L.-R.: Charles W. Jones, Hazel Gray, Fannie Jones Lovejoy Gray, Anna Jones Luckert, Bessie Liberty Luckert, Frank Gray, John (Jack) Luckert, Fred Jones, Elsie Luckert, Ernie Eggers, Frank Jones, Walter Jones. George W. Luckert is listed, but I don't see him.
Charles W. Jones is my great grandfather. His sister, Fannie, married to Frank Gray, her second husband, would be a great aunt, as would Frank's sister, Hazel, by marriage. Walter Jones is Charles' and Fannie's brother. George W. and Anna Jones Luckert are my grandparents, with their two youngest children, John/Jack and Bessie/Betty, my dad and aunt. Fred and Frank/Casey Jones were brothers to Anna, thus Dad's uncles, my great uncles. Elsie Luckert (Moeller) was a half sister to George, one of John C. Luckert's second family. We had Eggers in Center, but I don't know who Ernie is. The English Samuel Jones had Charles W. (b.1854-d.1934), John Andrew (b.1864-d.1933), Neil (b. 1866-d.1931), Fanny (b.1873-d.1933), and Walter (b. 1874-d.1956, unmarried).
L.-R.-Loal Luckert, Lillian/Lillie Luckert Stein, George Luckert, Bertha Luckert, Daisy Hermes, Julia Dannert Luckert (in front), Alma Luckert (Doerr), Elsie Luckert (Moeller), Herman Dannert, Oscar Luckert. I assume [Great] Uncle Albert Hermes, Jr., took this blended family photo, because his wife, Daisy, stands immediately behind John C. Luckert's second wife, Julia, seated. Herman (b.1875-d.1958) is Julia's son by her first marriage, her other son, William Dannert (b. 1879-d.1902), buried in the Bloomfield cemetery's Luckert group. All the Luckerts but George are by her second marriage to John C. My grandfather George is in the middle of his half brothers and half sisters, left of his stepmother. Bertha (b. 1886-d,1959) and Oscar (b.1892-d.1961) never married. Apparently Great Aunt Alma (b.1898-d.1977) and Great Aunt Elsie (b. 1894-d.1981) weren't married at the time of the photo, though Great Aunt Lillie (b.1881-d.1959) was. Loal (b. 1901) is dead, but I can't find the date.
As identified by Evelyn/Bubbs Stocking Davids: Back Row, L-R: Vern Stocking, Aunt Gladys Stocking holding Arnold Stocking, Bessie/Betty Luckert, Elizabeth/Lizzie Luckert Stocking (dark figure completely in shadow), Cecil Falter, Clark Stocking (with hat), Jack Luckert, Clifford Stocking (with cap), unidentified man; Front Row, L-R: Alyce Stocking, Lavonne Stocking, Audree Koftan, Hazel Stocking, Owen Colvin, Harvey Colvin, Aunt Joy Colvin [Stocking?]. June 1936.
I don't know what Aunt Audree is doing there unless she was with Mom and Dad, so I assume, since Jack/Dad is in the photo, Mom/Velma is taking the picture. Lizzie and Betty are Dad's sisters, of course. Lizzie was married to Vern, and three of their five children are in the group: Alyce, Hazel, and Clark. I don't know the other Stockings. I knew Cecil Falter, that name still common around Creighton, as Colvin is a well-known name in Bloomfield. (I knew some but none of these.)
Rick Stedtnitz, son of Jimmy and Sally Stocking Stedtnitz (Clark and Dorothy's daughter--I played piano for their 1959 wedding), is in the process of trying to identify his mother's share of old family photos. Two follow, the first the youngest photo I've ever seen of Grandpa (George W.) Luckert. I thought I knew the two women in the rear, but the setting is too expensive for any of our Nebraska family gatherings, and so I agree with Rick that it's George W. back East with New Jersey family. He's in the right center with thick curly hair, mustache, cigar.
The other one Rick called five Stocking generations, but it is actually five Luckert generations, with Lizzie and Clark Stocking and George W. Luckert behind John C. Luckert's second wife, Julia Witt Dannert Luckert, and Patti Stocking at Lizzie's front door. From oldest to youngest, obviously it's Julia, George, Lizzie, Clark, Patti.
Another generational Luckert photo of three brothers and their sister with their dad, also at Lizzie's front door, is below, L-R, Jack, Chet (in back), George, Lizzie, and Rich. I don't know why they all have carnations on, but the car has a Minnesota plate.
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