Local photographer Festy Yoakum left us with a picture that’s begging for a title. So let’s call it “A Hunting We Will Go.” The young lady is Ruby Beard Kerr, born May 19, 1881, at the logging town of Winterburn in northern Pocahontas. She poses here with her dog and hunting rifle, her bonnet tossed in the laurels behind her. Ruby Beard’s parents were Josiah Osborne and Eveline Medora Yeager Beard. Their fascinating family history can be found on Pg. 225 in “History of Pocahontas County WV 1981.” Ruby Beard married James McNeer Kerr on September 17, 1902. She died February 22, 1922, of pneumonia due to injuries received in an automobile accident. (Courtesy of Stephen McNally, ID: PHP000757)

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