This is John Henry Cokonougher and his new wife Amelia Irene "Miller" Cokonougher in 1916, shortly after they were married.
John and Amelia met at the home of his mother Mary Elizabeth "Wisecup" Cokonougher in South Salem, Ohio. Amelia was a 16 year old orphan who had been placed in Mary's home as what was then the equivalent of today's foster child, to earn her keep as a housekeeper. John was a bachelor farmer who was twice Amelia's age. They were married 46 years and had five children: Cecil Lloyd Cokonougher, born 19 April 1917, John Henry Cokonougher Jr., born 29 June 1919, Howard William "Bill" Cokonougher, born 14 August 1922, Herbert Miller Cokonougher, born 25 April 1924, and Geraldine June "Gerry" Cokonougher, born 24 November 1933. John and Amelia lived most of their married life on the family farm on Wisecup Hill in Buckskin Township in Ross County, Ohio, originally purchased by John's father, Zachariah Cokonougher, in 1905.
WOW! this is great.
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