(Photos courtesy of Steve Potter, great-grandson of Nettie (Stone) Potter)

Willis Willard and Flossie V. (Morrison) Potter

Pictured above are:  left front - Berthat Edith (Potter) Dinkins daughter of Nettie Jewel (Stone) Potter.  Behind Berthat is her brother Willis Willard Potter. Seated in the center is Nettie Jewel (Stone) Potter and on the far right is George Elbert Potter.

Nettie was the daughter of Wiliam T. Stone and Tennesse Clementine Bolen.  According to Steve Potter, "Nettie Jewel Stone was blind since I can remember. When I was little we used to visit her and George Elbert in the Christian Nursing Center in Edmond Oklahoma. She would take mine and my brothers face in her hands every time we came to visit. She mostly sat quietly listening to everyone talk during the visit."

Steve Potter has submitted additional information for the benefit of researchers including:

1916 Extracts from Barry County, MO, Newspapers
Flat Creek News: Mrs. James Leek and little son of Joplin is visiting with her sister, Mrs. Elbert Potter.
 
1920 US Federal Census and WW I Draft registration shows last name as Patter.  I have submitted corrections for both these records.
 
"George Elbert Potter used to make small wooden wheelbarrows for me and my brother when we were small. He also made wooden tops, small baseball bats, and pencil holders. Even after retiring to the Christian Nursing Center in Edmond, OK he continued making things out of the basement, in a small wood shop. He never would cuss. My Grandfather Willis Willard recounted a tale of him getting kicked in the chest by a mule, getting up and saying AW SHAW."
 
"He died quietly on a Sunday night in his sleep the night after the Stone / Potter reunion in Tulsa Oklahoma at my Grandparents home on North Trenton in Tulsa OK."
 
"The original Potter homestead in Disney, Mayes CO OK is still in the family.  The old house is gone but some flowers GG Nettie planted still bloom there.  Aunt Bertha and Uncle Garland lived on the property next to the old homestead and G Willis lived on property that adjoined both properties.  Now my father GL Potter owns G Willis Willard old property and some adjoining the old homestead."

"This was transcribed in error and put in here to help other researchers, also 1920 Barry CO census shows this family as Pattter by mistake."
 
1930 United States Federal Census Record
about Bertha E Patter
Name: Bertha E Patter
Age: 20
Estimated birth year: abt 1910
Relation to head-of-house: Daughter
Father's Name: Gorge E Patter
Mother's Name: Netter Patter
Home in 1930: McDonald, Barry, Missouri
 
1914 Extracts from Barry County, MO, Newspapers
 
Flat Creek News: Those who were baptized Sunday Dec 13, as converts of the Holy Roller meeting were Clay Buckhannon and wife, Elbert Potter and wife, Lawrence McCormack and wife, Hint Foster, Mrs. Florence Stallion and Misses Anna Foster and Oma Stone.
 
Flat Creek News: Mr. and Mrs. Elbert Potter and little babe or Wolley creek visited Sunday with his parents, D. I. Potter and wife.
 
1915 Extracts from Barry County, MO, Newspapers
Flat Creek News: Mr. and Mrs. Elbert Potter and children visited Saturday night and Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Will Stone of Cape Fair.