Marshall (Mo.) High School.
REPUBLIC SPECIAL.
Marshall, Mo., May 21. – The fourteenth annual commencement of Marshall High School for ’97 took place before a large audience here last night. Following is a list of the graduates:
With highest praise – Joseph Clinton Todd, Frank Clinton Barnhill, Misses Ella Stanley Goodsin, Emily Josephine Robertson.
With praise – Misses Bessie Gertrude Corson, Frances Hereford Francisco, Emma Kelley Fisher, Mary Alice Montague and Bertha Alice Roberts.
Graduated – Misses Eulalia Katherine Conway, Sarah Bella Highland, Daisy Martin Knight, Gertrude Ligget, Pearl Oldham, Archie Waugh Naylor and Robert Clarence Neville.
Joe's grandparents Todd, Joseph Clinton Todd and Emily Josephine Robertson were in the same high school graduating class. They both graduated with "highest praise."
I wonder if they were high school sweethearts? Joe's records indicate they were married in 1903, six years after they graduated from high school.
Josephine Robertson - that's the origin of Joseph Robertson Todd, Joe's father, and Patrick Robertson Todd.
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Emily & Joseph about 1939
in Bloomington, Indiana
Newspaper source: Date: Saturday, May 22, 1897 Paper: St. Louis Republic (St. Louis, Missouri) Section: Part II Page: 4; genealogybank.com; accessed April 6, 2016
