This album was presented to Fannie D. Finney for Reward of Merit, from J.E.B. Dec., 1867.  She was 9 years old when she received it, likely as a reward from her school or Sunday school teacher.  The identity of ”J.E.B.” is unknown.

Fannie was the daughter of John W. and Frances Godard Finney (Photo #8).   Her father died during the Civil War, and her mother married William Alexander Chambers (Photo #45) in 1868, when Fannie was 10.   During her childhood, she lived in Fortville (now gone) in Jones County.  After her marriage to Richard Henry Bonner in 1876, she lived in Clinton until her death in 1901.  Their children were John Wyatt Bonner and Giles Walter Bonner (Photo #13).  The people in this collection have ties of kinship with either Fannie or her husband.  Some lived in Clinton, and others elsewhere in Jones County.

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Fannie D. Finney's Portrait Album, Dec. 1867

Index to Portraits, #s 1-25

Index to Portraits, #s 26-50

#3 Mary J. (Mollie) Godard [Mrs. John P. Hunt], 1837-1911

#4 Edgar Hunt (1859-1934), Thomas Hunt (1862-1895)

#5 Martha Vera (Mattie) Hunt, 1860-1941

#7 Drucilla (Dru) Hutchings [Mrs. Samuel Lowther Chiles], 1847-1921

#8 John W. Finney (1834-1862) and wife Frances (Fannie) Goddard (1840-1906)

#9 Marietta Taylor Pitts [Mrs. Isaac Hardeman], 1839-1866

#11 Missing photo of Charlie Bonner

#12 Jefferson Davis, stock photo

#13 l to r- Samuel Asbury Kingman (1849-1919), John Randolph Chiles (1845-1922), Giles Walter Bonner (1881-1932)

#14 Joshua Smith Godard, 1829-1866

#15 Mary Ann Greene Buchannan [Mrs. Joshua Godard, later Mrs. Oliver Bonner] 1834-1874

#17 Henry Jefferson Finney, 1846-1919

#18 Benjamin Tarver Finney, 1819-1899

#19 (?) Hunt

#20 Joel Franklin Godard, 1855-aft 1920

#21 Lula C. Morris [Mrs. Joel Godard]

#22 Unidentified

#23 Martha Godard [Mrs. Dauphin Pitts, later Mrs. Thomas Jefferson Stewart], 1834-1886

#27 James Madison (Jim) Middlebrooks, 1845-1898

#28 John Augustus (Gus) Pitts, 1854-1932

#29 Martha Dauphin (Dolph) Pitts [Mrs. James Madison Middlebrooks], 1855-1896

#30 Alice M. Finney [Mrs. Noble A. Kirven], 1859-1936

#33 Unidentified

#34 James Tarver Finney, 1852-1934

#35 Branham Anderson

#36 Unidentified

#37 Unidentified

#38 Unidentified

#39 Unidentified, but appears to be Fannie Mae Stewart [Mrs. John Augustus Pitts], 1859-1933

#42 Thomas Alfred Cheatham, 1851-1931

#45 Capt. William A. Chambers, 1826-1884

#46 Unidentified

#47 Samuel Lowther (Sammie) Chiles, 1867-1923

#48 Mrs. Finney

The Old Clinton Historical Society wishes to thank the donor for her gift of this album.  Thanks also to Johnny Mac Nickles for the photos.   

For more information about the photos, contact cpkrom@gmail.com,