Scope and Contents A young Joseph Smith Peery drives cars around before the family poses for pictures including Joe, his two brothers, and six sisters. Jeanne, Peery's half sister, is a babe in arms and Paul, Peery's half brother, is a toddler. It also shows Joseph Strass Peery's mother,Elizabeth Letitia Higgenbotham Peery(d. 1938) and more shots of the family