My daughter scanned some old family picture

[ashling]

my great grandfather and grandmother (far left and right on porch), my grandmoter, grandfather and uncle - about 1915

[Arugula Latte]

1. Great photo!

Those were the days when old people really looked like old people, ya know?

[ashling]

2. Frances DeLysle Holmes - he was a populist, too!

Them's my roots

and this is my grandmother when she was younger than in the one above:

[zanne]

3. What an incredible photograph!

That is a treasure.

[suninvited]

4. Great picture.

Do you see any family resemblance?

[wain]

5. A wonderful picture

What a great rocking chair your greatmother has. What are the ages of your great and grandparents in this picture? Do you know where the picture was taken?

Thanks for sharing. It is really a special picture to see.

[ashling]

7. Here is another pic of my great grandfather

F.D. Holmes. I am really not sure when either of these were taken (probably the same date). As for his age and the age of the picture, I am still piecing it together. I have got some more info. somewhere, but I have an old Family Bible covered with sheepskin which indicates that he purchased it in Etowah Co, Alabama in 1869 and that he "now" lived in Hood County Tex (1872). My gradmother was born in Bluff Dale Texas (Erath County - which was a center of populism in Texas) in 1882 (or 1883)

In the earlier picture, my grandfather is holding my uncle who was the oldest child. My father (the third child) was born in 1918.

[Elidor]

6. Scots?

Your grandfather looks like some of my kin. What a classic face. He looks like an extra from The Quiet Man. Nice photo.

[ashling]

8. I'm not sure about that side of the family

there are some on my mother's side.

[ashling]

12. Heres is Annie Clark Dawes from the Scots side

her husband died in the Civil War (Battle of Peachtree Creek, Atlant campaign, 1864)

[Elidor]

14. I used to live not far from Peachtree Creek

About five miles away. I've read the historical markers down there by the hospital (forget the name, Peachtree, probably, but I haven't lived there in over a decade). Annie looks like a real survivor.

My people were in Georgia at the same time, but several of them left one step ahead of the law. Somewhere I have the text of the arrest warrant from the governor of Georgia for one of my forebears, wanted for killing his slave. He and his family fled to Texas, and the whole matter is hushed up to this day among the kin. Shameful stuff. I guess the guilt runs deep for some of them. It's not something you want to find out about your people. I'd rather be related to Quaker abolitionists from the Union, but it seems my people were mostly Johnny Rebs and Indians, and not very nice ones at that.

[ashling]

18. Are we related?

My dad's family came fromjust north of Atlanta. Moved to Texas after the civil war. There is a story my dad used to tell about great great uncle Harry who was "released" from jail sureptitiously and his uncle had fresh horses ready for him all the way to Texas. My Dad would tell that at supper and my grandmother would say "now, Lloyd, that's not the way it happened." When I would ask my grandmother for information for staqrting a geneology she wouldn't tell me anything, because you never know who might turn up.

My grandmother went to school at a school stated by Charles Goodnight, the famous Texas rancher (Goodnight-Loving Trail) and used to tell me that she could remember wagonloads of bufalo skins on the way through to Fort Worth.

[Elidor]

20. Wow. But I doubt we're related unless you have Osbornes in your tree.

In which case you should shake them out! Heh. That kinda thing was not too uncommon at the time. Supposedly one of my ancestors walked all the way from Flowery Branch, GA to someplace in the South of Texas. Quit a trip.

[Xipe Totec]

9. Jerome - AZ

[ashling]

11. That is a great picture!

I'm sure the story is aS intriguing as the picture

[ashling]

10. My mother was a Director in the Red Cross

she was stationed in India and Burma in 1944 at several points along the Ledo and Burma Roads




She was one of the most caring, loving women in the world. I will always be thankful for her.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

17. Wow! What a fashion plate!

Cool. I have a pic of my mom in college circa 1940 with her hair parted in the center and two "cinnamon rolls" of hair, one on each side. Amazingly, on her it looked good. :D

Great-looking moms rock!! :D

[Inchworm]

13. Old as I got.. I'm sure there were several fires

I'm the mountain man.

:hi:

[Tuesday Afternoon]

15. loving the front porch AND the people sitting on it --

good looking group :)

[Silver Swan]

16. This is my great grandparents with my grandfather as an infant, circa 1886

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[ashling]

19. That's a great photo!