Friday's Photo: Connections to my Giddens and Bryan Families - Joseph W. McMichael and Willie Marie Bryan

Joseph Walker McMichael and Willie Marie Bryan, ca. 1940 [1]

Yesterday, I posted the obituary of Joseph Walker McMichael.[2] I wanted to add a photo, but checked my digital files and did not find one. It wasn't until after I posted the obituary that I thought to look in my paper files. Julia McMichael Brittain (1942-2018) sent me copies of the above photo and much more in 1999.[3] 

This chart shows the relationship between Willie Marie

and my family. Julia, Willie Marie's grandaughter, was 

my third cousin-once-removed on my father's Bryan

side of the family. [5]

I knew how Willie Marie was connected to my Bryan family; however, until this morning, I had completely forgotten that Joseph Walker McMichael was connected to my Giddens family. 

Julia was my first source of information for both my Giddens and Bryan families when I began my research. She answered my genealogical query on the old Genforum in 1998 after my mother asked me to try to find something on my "new Internet" about her Giddens family. [4] Julia responded and sent me a large envelope containing an indexed descendants report of my Giddens family. 

From the Files of Marguerite Cook Clark: Joseph W. McMichael

Clipping from the files of
Marguerite Cook Clark [1]

Joseph Walker McMichael, son of John McMichael and Laura Cornelia Evans was born on 12 October 1882. He was married to Willie Marie Bryan, daughter of Tillman Capers Bryan II and Mary Elizabeth McDowell. [2]

Joseph McMichael died on 16 November 1955 and his wife on 31 March 1979. They are buried in the Greenwood Cemetery in Shreveport. [3]

Photos of Willie Marie Bryan McMichael and some of her family can be seen in the following posts:

• Mildred Rebecca Manning Prothro Bryan AND a Question About My Last Post (seen as Marie)
• From the Files of Marguerite Cook Clark: A Bryan Family Photo

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Diana

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    1. "Joseph W. McMichael [obituary]," newspaper clipping, n.d., unidentified newspaper, from the privately-held collection of Marguerite Cook Clark (1913-1989), Waynesville, North Carolina, 2021. Obituaries were accessed and scanned at the home of Marguerite Cook Clark's daughter in Alpine, Texas on April 28, 2014, September 14, 2014, and November 9 to 11, 2016.

    2. Julia Brittain,  "Ahnentafel Chart for Reddick Bryan," 1793 - 1991; supplied by J. Brittain, Cypress, Texas, 1999.

    3. Ibid.