Family History

The cover of Betsy's snapshots album, containing candid photos of her and her family members.

Shown here are Betsy Headley Garr and her daughters Charlotte (the infant) and Betty (age 5), taken May 20, 1928.

More photos of Betsy and her daughters Betty and Charlotte from May 20, 1928.

These photos shown 5 year old Betty Headley Garr holding her 3 month old baby sister Charlotte Russell Garr on May 20, 1928.

The photo on the left shows Charlotte Russell Garr at 3 months old. The photo on the right is Betty Headler Garr at 5 years old. Both photos were taken May 20, 1928.

The left photo shows Charlotte Russell Garr standing in her crib, it is undated but it is most likely from the 1920s. The photo on the right shows Charlotte in the arms of her mother Betsy Higgins Headley Garr on May 20, 1928, when Charlotte was 3 months old.

The left photo shows Charlotte Russell Garr while on a vacation with her family at String Cottage, Michigan. The right photo shows Charlotte with her older sister Betty, also at String Cottage.

The top photo shows left to right: Frances Carruth, Allen Carruth, Betsy Headley Garr holding Charlotte Garr, and Betty Garr. Frances and Allen were the niece and nephew of Betsy. The photo was taken in August of 1928. The bottom photo shows Charlotte as a young girl. It is undated, but it is likely from the 1930s.

The top photo shows Betsy Headley Garr with her daughters Charlotte and Betty, her niece Frances Carruth, and her nephew Allen Carruth taken in August of 1928. Below is a photo from the 1930s of Charlotte Russell Garr.

The left photo shows Betsy holding her 3 month old daughter Charlotte on May 20, 1928. The right photo Betty Headley Garr holding the hand of her younger sister Charlotte while at String Cottage, Michigan. 

This page of the album shows String Cottage in Michigan, taken during the summer of 1929. Betsy would often take her family to vacation here and visit her aunt Sally Higgins McElroy.

The photo on the left shows Eloise Spartan standing by Betty and holding Charlotte, taken in early 1929. The right photo shows Charlotte standing outside on June 24, 1929. 

This photo shows Charlotte Russell Garr standing outside as a toddler, taken on June 29, 1929.

This page contains two photos of Charlotte Russell Garr. The left shows her on June 24, 1929 and the one on the right is from July of 1931.

This page is another with photos of Charlotte Russell Garr. The left photo was taken on June 24, 1929 and the right is from July 1931.

The photo on the left shows Charlotte Russell Garr at the age of 2, taken in July 1931. The right photo shows Charlotte standing with two unnamed girls in 1931.

This photo taken at String Cottage in Michigan in 1929 shows Sally Higgins McElroy and Betty Headley Garr standing with two unnamed people. 

The small photo in the upper left shows Charlotte Russell Garr in the 1930s. The larger photo on the right shows String Cottage in Michigan, a vacation spot for the Garr family.

This undated photo shows Charlotte with a dog named Bill. It was probably taken in June of 1931.

This photo shows Charlotte with a dog called Bill Gess, taken in June 1931 in Gratz Park in Lexington, Kentucky.

This page includes another photo of Charlotte with a dog called Bill Gess, taken in June of 1931. 

This photo shows Charlotte Russell Garr with a dog called Bill Gess, posing in a car in June 1931.

This page includes another photo of Charlotte and Bill Gess posing on a car in June of 1931.

This page includes another photo of Charlotte and Bill Gess. This one was taken in June of 1931 in Gratz Park in Lexington, Kentucky.

This photo shows Charlotte Russell Garr riding tricycles with a young boy named David in 1932.

The left photo on this page shows Charlotte posing with her parents Betsy Headley Garr and Charles Crain Garr in May 1932 at Boonesboro. The photo on the right shows Charlotte in 1932, at the age of 4.

The photo on the left of this page shows Betsy with her daughters Betty, age 10, and Charlotte, age 4, in 1932. The right photo shows Charlotte in 1932.

On this page, the photo on the left shows Charlotte and Betsy in 1932. The left photo is of Charlotte in 1932.

The photo on the left shows Charles Crain Garr, and the photo on the right shows his daughter Charlotte. Both photos are undated but were likely taken in the 1930s.

This page contains two photos of unlabeled children, they are also undated.

The photo on the left shows Charlotte riding a tricycle with an unnamed friend. The photo on the right shows Charlotte by herself. While they are both undated, they were likely taken in the 1930s.

The photo on the left shows Betty Headley Garr in 1932 at age 10, wearing her mother's clothes. The right photo shows Charlotte in 1932 wearing a straw hat.

This photo shows Betty Headley Garr and a friend named Edith Clark in 1932.

This page contains two unlabeled and undated photos of Charlotte with two unidentified people. Though no date is given for the photos, they were likely taken in the 1930s.

This page has two undated photos that both show Betty Headley Garr. Though no date is given, they are likely from the 1930s.

This photo shows Charlotte Russell Garr, undated but likely from the early 1930s. The photo that was torn out has not been found.

The photo on the left shows Charlotte with an unnamed woman, probably taken in the 1930s. The photo on the right shows Charlotte with her older sister Betty, also without a date but likely from the 1930s.

This photo shows Betty Headley Garr riding her bicycle with little sister Charlotte on the front in 1931.

The top photo on this page is another image of Betty and Charlotte riding on Betty's bicycle in 1931. The photo on the bottom left shows Betty when she crowned the May Day Queen in Lexington. The bottom right photo shows Charlotte in the 1930s.

This photo shows Charlotte Russell Garr in the early 1930s.