This is a picture of the Walker farmhouse scanned at a very large size and with inserts of people's heads by the people whom I feel may match them.
Looking carefully at this large image it becomes apparent that the woman on the chair in the middle of the photograph is Everna Walker, Sam N. Walker's sister (daughter of Charles Pearsey Walker and Ruth Ellen Fox Walker). I have noted it so in the Walker Tour.
Although the woman standing with the horse reminds me somewhat of Thelma Umphrey/Allen/Bearde, she was not born when this photograph was taken and it just indicates that the woman probably has some of our Walker genes. The man standing to the right of the woman with the horse is apparently a younger Sam Walker (in pictures by 1912 he definitely had a mustache). If not, they are perhaps a married couple and could be Edgars - Joseph who married Frances Rineley and lived either in New London or Muscatine would be one possibility. The horse first made me think of the Edgar family, since they brought some breeds of horse to Henry County, Iowa during the 19th century. But almost all farms and folk had horses in the days before cars, so it could be anybody's horse. Of course the woman with the horse and the man could be not married, and then they could be any of a number of Edgars who would have been in their 20s in this time period.
The children in the picture are flocking around Everna, which tends to indicate they are probably hers, although this is not for sure. Everna was married in 1891, Sam N. in 1893, and, despite what the back of the picture says, Flossie Walker in 1903 - I imagine this photograph was taken around 1905-06. If even 1908 a whole myriad of possibities exist for the little children around Everna. It does seem none of the children are Talma based upon the picture of her in the Walker Tour from about 1917 - none look like her. They could be instead Ruth, Helen, Elsie Bea (Frizzell), and Lela (born about 1905); or Helen, Elsie Bea, Lela, and Charlotte (Birdie) (born 1906); Elsie Bea, Lela, and Charlotte (Birdie) and Doris (born 1908). None of the children appears to be Elsie Walker, Sam N. Walker's child, as a picture of her from about 1900 is on the Tour and none of these children resemble her. Helen and Elsie Bea died in 1911 (and Charlotte Birdie in 1912) so the photograph must be a few years before 1911.
The man in the bibb overalls appears to be (Charles) Lee Walker, Everna and Sam N.'s brother. If not, it likely is Eli C. Frizzell, but no photographs of him otherwise are available to compare this to. It doesn't look like Everna and Sam N.'s brother Tom, but I have never seen a picture of him as a young man. James G. Walker, another brother, would be about 20 when this picture was taken and I believe the adults in this photograph are somewhat older than that.
The man standing behind the man who is sitting on the ground and the young woman standing up beside Everna are presently unrecognizable. There is a possibility that the woman standing there is Aleta if she was already married to Lee Walker and that is he sitting. I don't have a marriage date for them though, but I feel it might be a few years later than this photograph, as their first child was born in 1915.
The "Sam Dotson," who did the carpentry work, written by Flossie on the back, is presently not in my database.
This farm house picture has some pretty strong clues regarding who is in the photo, and the people on the right are identifiable.
The woman on the right is Flossie [Walker] Russell, the man kneeling with the baby is her husband, John Russell. The man on the left of the photo (before the inserts were added) could be Lee Walker again or Eli Frizzell - no pictures of whom are presently available so I can't say what he looked like.
The woman holding the child next to Flossie is Hattie Walker, Sam's first wife. I imagine the child she is holding is Leota Walker, and the child John Russell is holding is Sam Walker. If Hattie is holding Ruth Walker, it would date the photograph in 1915 rather than 1912, and that might more accurately mean the girls on the left are Frizzells, and the man on the left could be one as well - Talma, John, and Ruth Frizzell would have been 19 years old and older in 1915, 16 years old or older in 1912 if it were Leota instead of Ruth.
I base some of these theories on the third Walker House photo:
In this photo, Hattie Mae is holding Leota, Myrtle is standing next to her, Charles Pearsey Walker to Myrtle's right, C.P.'s second wife, Sarah (Sallie) is sitting, and Sam N. is holding Samuel Clinton's hand. It seems a bit likely these two photos were made in the same time period; conceivably even the same day. There is another photo in the Tour of Myrtle rocking on a chair holding the baby Leota, with Sam standing by her side. It seems he was a blond baby that second summer of his life.
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