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Mary Maclary Weston and her husband Thomas ran the Derby Hotel for a few years in the early 1900s.

The Derby Hotel was located on the corner of Washington and Baltimore. The postcard is from the 1900s.

Back of the postcard:
Left side: This is the hotel of Derby.
Right side: Mrs. Ashenfelter
Bottom: Minnie

The Weston family portrait taken around 1900.

Back row: Robert Elliott (Mary's son with her first husband James Elliott)
Front row: Mary Elizabeth Weston holding Helen Erma Weston, Thomas Arthur Weston, Thomas Weston holding Lydia Elsie Weston,…

Thomas Weston married widow Mary Elizabeth Maclary Elliott on Jan. 18, 1893 in Dodge City, Kansas.

Miles Howard Weston was born Sept. 5, 1902 in Wichita, Kansas to Thomas and Mary Weston.

Lydia Elsie Weston was born on Jan. 23, 1898 in Ford County, Kansas to Thomas and Mary Weston.

Marie Ellen Foltz was born in Derby, KS on Sept. 22, 1917 to parents Lydia (Weston) and William Benjamin "Bill" Foltz. She was one of Thomas and Mary Elizabeth Weston's grandchildren. Marie married William Culbertson, Jr. and the photo is dated 1941.

William Hamilton and his father Benjamin Franklin "Frank" Hamilton, Sr with a new car in 1935.

Benjamin Franklin "Frank" Hamilton, Sr. and his son William Hamilton farmed 160 acres of land. Photo taken circa 1933.

Left to Right: James "Jim" Goodacre, Sarah (Mock) Goodacre, and Charles Alva "Pat" Goodacre