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The Belmont County Victorian Mansion Museum posted this photo online this week stating the photo was sent a while back by a descendant seeking information on her grandfather, a Belmont Native.
“I found this photograph in my grandfather’s possessions. I have tried to find out what organization is pictured with no luck. I thought someone in your historical society might recognize it or some people in it and tell me what LLS stands for. I think my grandfather is the tallest man in the middle of the back row.
Some facts that might help: My grandfather was Reuel F. Jeffers. He graduated from Belmont high school about 1924. He returned as a teacher and was teaching there in 1927-8 for sure. He married Charlotte Lenore Blon, also from Belmont, in 1929. He also taught in Scio and Clarington before moving to Milford, Oh to teach in 1942.”
Editor’s Note: We checked the collection in the Barnesville Hutton Memorial Library’s Genealogy Room and found no clues in Patricia Field’s book, “Belmont Remembered: Pictures and Places of Belmont”. In a book of Belmont High grads compiled by members of the Belmont County Chapter, Ohio Genealogical Society, we discovered Jeffers was a 1923 graduate of the high school. And through photos we are certain this photo was taken in front of the high school that was erected in the 1910s. Photo research also suggests the teacher in the back row far left was veteran educator A.A. McEndree.
Was Linean LLS a literary society? A co-ed school club? Internet searches provide no clues.
We do know it was not the school’s annual yearbook. It was the Bel-San.
If anyone has any information they can share about this, let us know and we’ll make sure it gets passed along.
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