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Framing a family history ; Frederick "Moss" Prewitt descendants gather resources to buy a long- lost Bingham portrait.
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The story about how Grandma Koonse gave up the Bingham paintings
wasn't one folks in the family liked to talk about. It was the
1950s, and George Prewitt Koonse was gone the day a man came to
their rural Boonville home and offered his wife money for the
portraits.
The paintings were of Koonse's most famous relatives: Frederick
"Moss" Prewitt and his wife, Nancy Johnston Prewitt. Moss Prewitt
was instrumental in settling Boone County as a merchant, civic
leader and a founder of the Uni...
