Friday's Photo: Sledge Family Photo Identified as G. M. and Hixie W. Hartsfield

This photo came from Mary V. Smith's collection. She wrote that the family photo album of Henry Collin Sledge, of Bienville Parish, was given to her mother, Anna Laura Martin, by Niler [Nila] Sledge Edwards. Mary also wrote that she copied the identifications that were on the photos. 

The young boys are wearing clothes similar to boys' clothing in the 1850s and 1860s. I did not find any young boys in census records matching these names. However, I did find a G. M. [Godfry Milledge] Hartsfield and his wife, Hickey W. Sledge Hartsfield, buried in the Hartsfield Cemetery in Columbia County, Arkansas. In Biographical family histories of southwest Arkansas, volume I, Hickey was identified as Hixey Whitfield Sledge, daughter of Whitfield H. Sledge. Could these be children of G. M. and Hixey Sledge Hartsfield?

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Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/12744303/hickey-w-hartsfield: accessed 17 November 2022), memorial page for Hickey W. Sledge Hartsfield (15 Aug 1818–1 Dec 1880), Find a Grave Memorial ID 12744303, citing Hartsfield Cemetery, McNeil, Columbia County, Arkansas, USA; Maintained by Diane Gravlee (contributor 47083760).

Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/12744284/godfrey-milledge-hartsfield: accessed 18 November 2022), memorial page for Godfrey Milledge Hartsfield (24 Mar 1812–20 Nov 1887), Find a Grave Memorial ID 12744284, citing Hartsfield Cemetery, McNeil, Columbia County, Arkansas, USA; Maintained by Diane Gravlee (contributor 47083760).

Sledge family photo labeled G. M. and Hixie Hartfield, photograph, n.d.; scanned image, from the privately held photo collection of Mary V. Smith, Alaska, 2004; original images photographed between 1973 and 1993.

Southwest Arkansas Genealogical Society, Biographical family histories of southwest Arkansas, volume I (Southwest Arkansas Genealogical Society, Magnolia, Arkansas: 1986), 199; digital images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/records/item/372461-redirection : accessed 25 October 2022).