Seated Left to Right: Rev. Hilary G. Richardson, Walter C. Preston, Anna Kennedy Davis, John J. Davis, Julia McDonald Davis. Standing Left to Right: Lillie Davis Preston, Emma Kennedy Davis, Anna Holmes Davis Richardson, John W. Davis, John James Davis Preston.
Gathering for the first production of "Anvil" in Charles Town, W. Va. for the West Virginia Centennial. Identified in the photograph: left Seated, Erma Ora Byrd and Robert C. Byrd; far right seated, Julia Davis Adams. "The Anvil" was a play written by Julia Davis about the John Brown Raid for the Civil War Centennial. Her grandparents were from Charles Town where Brown was tried and hanged. Her grandfather witnessed the execution.