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1. PMG_9067 - Photograph, Digital

   Photograph dated 1901, of Ada Mershon Kearns Johnson (1875-1919) and her daughter, baby Vera Lydia Johnson (1900-1940). Ada Mershon Kearns Johnson was a member of the large Iowa-based Mershon Family with ties to Fairhope, Alabama. She lived in the newly established single tax colony of Fairhope, with her first husband Jasper T. Kearns from 1895-1896. Their daughter Luta Kearns Johnson Carley was born in Fairhope in May,1896. The family retu...

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2. PMG_9079 - Photograph, Digital

   Cabinet card wedding picture dated November 24, 1892 of Jasper T. Kearns and Ada Mershon. M. M. Mott, Anamosa's (Iowa) Photographer, took the picture. Jasper T. Kearns was a member of the initial founding party of the Fairhope, Alabama single tax colony in November, 1894. Wife Ada moved to Fairhope several months later. Their daughter Luta was born in Fairhope in May 1896. The family returned to Iowa that year, and the couple divorced. ...

   Record Type: Photo

   
3. PMG_9087 - Photograph, Digital

   Cabinet card photograph c.1905 of Dr. George Alonzo Mershon with his mother Leah Grauel Mershon, daughter Ada Mershon Kearns Johnson, and granddaughter Luta Kearns Johnson Carley. The large Mershon family (origially from Iowa) had close ties to the founding and development of the single tax colony of Fairhope, Alabama. Dr. G. A. Mershon practiced medicine in early Fairhope, and his siblings Clara Mershon Gaston, Arthur H. Mershon and Nathan...

   Record Type: Photo