Claude Louis Davis - Born 127 Years Ago Today

Claude Louis Davis  1893 - 1967

The U.S.S. Franklin was a training ship at the Commanding Naval
Training Station in Norfolk, VA. The ship was decommissioned and
sold on October 14, 1915. This photo was said to have been taken soon
after Claude got over the measles. According to historical records,
there was a measles outbreak at the Norfolk Commanding Naval
Training Station in 1915. 

My grandfather, Claude Louis Davis, was born September 28, 1893 in City Hospital, Louisville, Kentucky - 127 years ago today. His mother, Bertha Davis, was young and unmarried. At age six months he may have been given to Isaac Smith and, his wife, Nancy Jane Saunders, for care. 

Claude's mother, Bertha Davis, was the daughter of Olive Caroline Davis. Her father is unknown. Bertha's grandparents were Seth H. Davis and Margaret "Peggy" Jones, both of Edmonson County. The Smith family was somewhat connected to Claude’s family as Bertha’s first cousin, George Page, was married to Nancy Jane’s sister, Clara.

Clippings from The Baylor County Banner - Seymour, Texas - February 1, 1923

My grandparents, Redic E. Bryan and Myrtie Hairston, and my great-grandparent's, Phillip A. Hairston and Lodema Criswell, moved to Baylor County in 1905. My father, Whit Criswell Bryan, was born in Seymour in 1920. He was the youngest of seven children born to Redic and Myrtie. Redic and Myrtie died in the 1920s and my father moved, along with his sisters, to Borger, Texas. 

In April 2019, I visited the Texas State Library and Archives to read Baylor County Banner issues that could not be found online or on microfilm. I photographed articles with information about my father's family who lived in Seymour. While sorting through my family finds, I realized I had photos of articles that might interest others looking for family. I have pictures of numerous articles from 1923 and a few from other years. I will post as time allows. 

Thank you to Matt Gwinn at the Baylor County Banner for giving me permission to post these clippings.  

My family in this issue, shows Buster Bryan on the Seymour football team and Willa Mae Bryan (aka Willie Mae) at a birthday celebration for Nadine Lankford. 

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Diana

© 2020

Sources

Harrison, O. C. The Baylor County Banner. (Seymour, TX.), Vol. 28, No. 19. 1 Feb 1923. Print. Accessed 15 April 2019. 

Friday's Photo: William Joseph Quinn II

William Joseph Quinn 
1894-1959

I found a Quinn cousin that the family lost touch with last week. She liked talking about family and I am learning a lot. She told me how much she liked my husband's grandfather, William Quinn. She called him "Willie" and relayed so many nice things about him. 

Later, while looking at these photos, I thought about how his grandchildren really didn't get to know him. These photos were taken in May 1954 and he died in 1959.

I can label some of the adults and a few of the grandchildren. My husband is the eight-month-old baby on his grandfather's knee. Does anyone know where this photo was taken? 

If you are one of these Quinn descendants and would like to help me label these photos, message me on the Facebook page. I will add them to my Facebook page as well as to the Quinn/Murray Family Facebook group. 

William Joseph Quinn II, Susan Murray Quinn, and some of their many grandchildren. 

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Diana

© 2020 

Sources 

Family photographs and documents from the collection of Diana Bryan Quinn. 

Friday's Photo: Aunt Janet

Aunt Janet with me - 1956

My mother mentioned that she and her sister, Janet, looked forward to seeing things about their family on my blog. Unfortunately, I have much less material for their side of the family. However, I found these photos of Aunt Janet last night and thought they should be published. 

I loved to visit Aunt Janet. She let me try on her jewelry, play with her new Barbie doll (the one with the ponytail), and was just so glamorous!

Aunt Janet teaching Sunday School - 1956

Still so glamorous! A Mother's Day Tea a few years ago. 

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Diana

© 2020 

Sources 

Family photographs and documents from the collection of Diana Bryan Quinn.

Clippings from The Baylor County Banner - Seymour, Texas - January 25, 1923

My grandparents, Redic E. Bryan and Myrtie Hairston, and my great-grandparent's, Phillip A. Hairston and Lodema Criswell, moved to Baylor County in 1905. My father, Whit Criswell Bryan, was born in Seymour in 1920. He was the youngest of seven children born to Redic and Myrtie. Redic and Myrtie died in the 1920s and my father moved, along with his sisters, to Borger, Texas. 

In April 2019, I visited the Texas State Library and Archives to read Baylor County Banner issues that could not be found online or on microfilm. I photographed articles with information about my father's family who lived in Seymour. While sorting through my family finds, I realized I had photos of articles that might interest others looking for family. I have pictures of numerous articles from 1923 and a few from other years. I will post as time allows. 

Thank you to Matt Gwinn at the Baylor County Banner for giving me permission to post these clippings.  

If you want to know more about the families I research, click here to like my Facebook page where you will see each post and other genealogical finds. 

Diana

© 2020

Sources

Harrison, O. C. The Baylor County Banner. (Seymour, TX.), Vol. 28, No. 18. 25 Jan 1923. Print. Accessed 15 April 2019. 

Friday's Photo: Thomas Banister Hudnall

Very little can be found about Thomas Banister Hudnall. The son of Isaac Hudnall and Sallie Patterson of Bienville Parish, Louisana, he was born on November 29, 1892 in Ringgold, Bienville Parish and appeared to be one of many children. 

According to his World War I draft registration card, Thomas had a medium build and was of medium height with brown hair and brown eyes. It was June 5, 1917 and it was reported that he was single and his occupation was farmer. 

Thomas Banister Hudnall died only a few years after the war on July 6, 1921 in West Feliciana Parish. 

Thank you to the Frye family for sharing this photo. 

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Diana

© 2020 

Sources 

Ancestry.com. U.S., World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2005.

Family photographs from the Frye Family collection. Accessed June 6, 2016 and June 3, 2019. Used with permission.

Year: 1900; Census Place: Police Jury Ward 4, Bienville, Louisiana; Page: 11; Enumeration District: 0006; FHL microfilm: 1240558

Clippings from The Baylor County Banner - Seymour, Texas - January 18, 1923

My grandparents, Redic E. Bryan and Myrtie Hairston, and my great-grandparent's, Phillip A. Hairston and Lodema Criswell, moved to Baylor County in 1905. My father, Whit Criswell Bryan, was born in Seymour in 1920. He was the youngest of seven children born to Redic and Myrtie. Redic and Myrtie died in the 1920s and my father moved, along with his sisters, to Borger, Texas. 

In April 2019, I visited the Texas State Library and Archives to read Baylor County Banner issues that could not be found online or on microfilm. I photographed articles with information about my father's family who lived in Seymour. While sorting through my family finds, I realized I had photos of articles that might interest others looking for family. I have pictures of numerous articles from 1923 and a few from other years. I will post as time allows. 

Thank you to Matt Gwinn at the Baylor County Banner for giving me permission to post these clippings.  

Willie Mae Bryan (later changed to Willa Mae) and 
Buster Bryan (Hairston Albritton Bryan) are my father's siblings. 

This is not my Bryan family. However, if you are related to
my Thompson/Gleghorn cousins, you might have a connection 
to this Bryan family. More about this family in the next two clippings. 

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Diana

© 2020

Sources

Harrison, O. C. The Baylor County Banner. (Seymour, TX.), Vol. 28, No. 16*. 18 Jan 1923. Print. Accessed 15 April 2019. 

*Note that this is actually No.17 as last week's was No. 16.

Friday's Photo: A Trott Family Home in Bienville Parish

Been Working on Fence is written at the bottom of this Frye family photo.
Pictured are William J. Trott, his wife Lula Laura Cook, and daughters Lillie Mae and Allie Belle.

This is a priceless photo from the Frye family collection.  Family members were identified on the back of the photo and the year as 1908. In 1908, William Jackson Trott was about 42 years old in this photo. His wife, Lula Laura Cook, was about 34 years old and the girls were 11 and 12 years old. 

I don't believe this photo was taken in 1908. Those girls look much too young. And, a third child, William Bryan Trott was born in 1905. In 1908, he may have been in the picture as well. 

Two doors and a dark space seen in the middle indicates this might be a dogtrot style house. 

 

The Trott farm home is written on the back of this photo. 
This appears to be the same home with two additions. 

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Diana

© 2020

Source

Family photographs from the Frye Family collection. Accessed June 6, 2016 and June 3, 2019. Used with permission.