Here are a couple of photos from the celebration of Grandma and Grandpa McClain’s 15th wedding anniversary in Tallman in 1923. The exact date of their 15th anniversary would have been January June 3, 1923. The weather and clothing in these photos doesn’t look like January to me, so I wonder whether they waited until spring or early summer to celebrate. Both of the photos have unfortunate problems, as you will see.

The above photo is Grandma and Grandpa McClain with their children. Names and ages clockwise from front: Betty McClain, 6, Bernard McClain, 11, Addie McClain, 37, Arthur McClain, 39, Florence McClain, 13. Also bottom left, Penny the dog. I’m guessing Grandma is wearing her wedding dress here. Perhaps Grandpa is wearing his wedding suit also, but that isn’t as obvious. Not sure why Mom is half cut out of the frame.

The above photo is of the guests at the 15th wedding anniversary celebration. Grandpa McClain is in the center of the middle row. Right of Grandpa is Grandma and right of Grandma is (Aunt) Clara McClain. Left of Grandpa is his mother Mary McClain. His father Nathan had passed away four years earlier. In the front standing row between Grandpa and Grandma is Mom, On the right end of that row is Uncle Barney. In front of Mom with the bow in her hair is Aunt Betty. I don’t immediately recognize anyone else. If you do, please say so.

Grandma evidently changed out of her wedding dress by this point.

It is possible that there are people out of the frame on the left. I say that in part because the original photograph had a whole lot of empty space on the right, which I cropped out. That suggests that the camera might have been aimed incorrectly in the second photo as it appears to have been in the first. But I can’t be certain.

People I would have expected to be in the second photo but couldn’t find are Harvey and Mary Lake and their children, and Joseph and Nellie Warren and their sons (three by this point). Perhaps they are here and I am just missing them. Also Ellery and Leota McClain and their children, who still lived in Tallman at this point. Grandpa’s other younger brothers, Ray and Clyde, could be in the photo somewhere. Also his older brother Charles and his wife. I presume some of the people in the photo are friends from the Tallman community.

The Wrights had not yet moved to Goltra at this time, so had not yet met the McClains. Otherwise they might have been in the photo also.