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The unknown photos below are unknown people, places, etc. If anyone can help identify any part of any of them, please contact me at potrafke@comcast.net. These pictures were given to me by my parents, and most of them belonged to my grandparents, Herman F. & Sarah (WATSON) POTRAFKE, unless otherwise documented. I will put as much information as I know regarding them, and hope that someone may find one of my websites and help to identify the rest. I know they are not all family members and some were friends of the family, as these are a very small portion of the pictures I inherited.

Some surnames associated with the pictures I am posting are:

From southern Ohio - POTRAFKE, WATSON, BORING/BOWRING, SCOTT, & LANGE

From Kentucky - LYONS, HOURIGAN, REXROAT, & BONTA/BANTA.

I will also post photos from anyone who has unknown photos they’d like to have identified. Just send me the picture(s) with your name and contact information, along with what you know about the photo and I will be happy to post them

If you or someone you know can give me any information regarding any of these photos, please email me at the above address, with “Photo No. XXX” in the subject line. Be sure to put the correct number from the photo.

If anyone has any questions or comments regarding any of the pictures on this page, please contact me at the above email address.

Photo No. 003: found with Potrafke photos (on back of picture, handwritten in my grandfather’s (Herman F. Potrafke) handwriting, it says, “Concord M. E. Sunday School, Aug. 1913”; it was taken by Sharp Pictures in Bethel Ohio

Photo No. 004: found with Potrafke photos

Photo No. 005: found with Potrafke/Watson photos

Photo No. 006: found with Potrafke/Watson photos

Photo No. 007: found with Potrafke/Watson photos

Photo No. 008: found with Potrafke/Watson photos

Photo No. 009: found with Potrafke/Watson photos (on back of this picture is handwritten “Just Mary 1932”

Photo No. 010: found with Potrafke/Watson photos

Photo No. 011: found with Potrafke/Lange/Watson/Boring photos (on back of picture is “Gust. Lindmark Nykoping Platen forvaras). I think this picture was probably taken in Germany, and it is from the Potrafke or Lange family.

Photo No. 012: found with Potrafke/Lange/Watson/Boring photos (Embossed in the bottom left corner is: Mars’-Studio F. Marschowsky, prop. Liberty & Vine, Cincinnati)

Photo No. 013: found with Potrafke/Lange/Watson/Boring photos

Photo No. 014: found with Potrafke/Lange/Watson/Boring photos

Photo No. 015: found with Potrafke/Lange/Watson/Boring photos (My dad thought the man farthest left is George Chapman from Williamsburg Ohio, and that this picture may have been taken at a bar on Main Street in Williamsburg)

Photo No. 016: found with Potrafke/Lange/Watson/Boring photos

Photo No. 017: found with Potrafke/Lange/Watson/Boring photos

Photo No. 018: found with Potrafke/Lange/Watson/Boring photos (I think these are Potrafke family members)

Photo No. 019: found with Potrafke/Lange/Watson/Boring photos (the back of this picture is dated Sept 14, 1966)

Photo No. 020: found with Potrafke/Lange/Watson/Boring photos (Teresa Potrafke is on the left)

Photo No. 021: found with Potrafke photos (what I know: Back-left to right: Roy Potrafke, Ed Howard, Joe Rapien, ?, ?, Walter Potrafke, Herman Potrafke; Mid-row-sitting: Jim Kramer, Roy Hobson, Leslie Veach; Front-left to right: Walter Potrafke, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?)

Photo No. 022: found with Potrafke/Lange/Watson/Boring photos (back of picture has Aug 13, 1967)

Photo No. 023: found with Potrafke photos

Photo No. 024: this was a Potrafke Family Reunion (I know a few of these, but not most)

Photo No. 025: this photo was taken at a Potrafke Family Reunion

Photo No. 026: found with Potrafke photos (very similar to photo no. 21)

Photo No. 027: found with Potrafke photos (from Potrafke Family Reunion)

Photo No. 028: from Potrafke Family Reunion (what I know: Back-left to right: Louise (Potrafke) Pauly, Ella Mae Hancock, Dora Potrafke, ?, ?, ?, Gladys (Beard) Potrafke, Hannah (Potrafke) Rapien; Second Row: ?, ?, Sarah (Watson) Potrafke, ?, ?, Anna (Potrafke) McKinniss; Front Row: Flora (Potrafke) Bridgeford, Carol (Steelman) Potrafke, ?, ?, Emma (Potrafke) Hobson

Photo No. 029: from Potrafke Family Reunion (what I know: Back-left to right: Helen Rapien, Mildred (Potrafke) Carter, Gladys (Potrafke) Wilson, Faye (Colwell) Potrafke; Middle Row: Mary Potrafke, Eileen Potrafke (Roy’s wife), Edna (Potrafke) Veach, Alice Mae (Potrafke) Kramer; Front: ?, ?, ?

Photo No. 030: found with Potrafke/Lange/Watson/Boring photos