Ruth Peterson in the M. P. (Methodist) Church Sunday School Class, New London, Iowa

This photograph (along with the captured caption) was published in the 1975 Centennial edition of the New London Journal.

Ruth Peterson was the oldest child of J. E. Peterson and Florence [Lee] Peterson. Ruth was born in 1892 and grew up in New London, Iowa. In 1917, after the death of her father, she moved with her mother and siblings to Los Angeles, California.

The text of the caption below the photograph reads:

TEEN-AGE GIRLS in a Sunday School class at the M. P. Church 1908 or 1909. Front row, left to right: Ethel Daniels Mathers, Reverend Payne, Ida Daniels Fye. Middle row: Edna Dickey Walz, Mary Parriott Westerbeck, Ella Fleagle, Hazel Smith McKasson, Effie Daniels Riley. Back row: Ruth Peterson, Bess Parriott Pierson, Beth Williams Ireton.

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