Welch - Ballard (Maybe)

Sometimes the Simmons Studio collection of negatives offers the barest of clues and we have to do a lot of detective work. For example, we found these negatives in this envelope which says Welch-Ballard.

I ignored the name Cunningham that's crossed off on the first line and went to the museum's family files.  Under "Ballard," I found an article that said one Gladys Welch was helping to arrange the Ballard family reunion. Aha!

Googling Gladys Ballard Welch returns one relevant hit - an obituary for Leona "Joann" (Welch) Peterson who was the daughter of Henry and Gladys (Ballard) Welch of Kingsville. Aha, again!

Ancestry.com reveals that Henry Welch married Gladys Ballard in Kingsville in 1930 and that they had a son Laurence and a daughter Leona. Aha for a third time!

Now that brings us to the negatives I found in the envelope.

Who are these people?

I have no idea.  They might be the Cunninghams.