Friday's Photo: Ruby Poland Metcalf

26 July 1911 to 15 September 2003 [1]

This photo was found in the Frye family's collection.[2] It is badly stained and I used my very amateurish skill of repairing photos to make it look a little better. The original is below. 

Ruby Louise Poland was the daughter of Alabama Frye and Hardie J. Poland. Her family lived in Fryeburg in Bienville Parish. Ruby was married to Albert Crockett Metcalf. She is buried in Bistineau Cemetery in Heflin, Webster Parish along with her parents and other family members.[3] 

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    1. Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/38361913/ruby-louise-metcalf : accessed 15 April 2022), memorial page for Ruby Louise Poland Metcalf (26 Jul 1911–15 Sep 2003), Find a Grave Memorial ID 38361913, citing Bistineau Cemetery, Heflin, Webster Parish, Louisiana, USA ; Maintained by Ron Manley (contributor 46788603).

    2. Ruby Louise Poland Metcalf, photograph, n.d.; scanned image, from the privately held photo collection of the Frye Family, San Francisco, 2019.

    3. Find a Grave, memorial  38361913, for Ruby Louise Poland Metcalf. 

Friday's Photo: Grover Frye of Louisiana

Grover Frye was found written on the back of this photo -another from the Frye family. A search for Grover points to Andrew "Andy" Grover Frye the son of Alexander Hamilton Frye and Georgia Ellen Gains. According to WWI and WWII draft cards, he was born in Minden in Webster Parish on August 11, 1888. 

The high collar and small bowtie indicate that the photo was probably taken in the early 1900s. I did not find a marriage record but according to information found on the 1910 United States Census, Andrew Grover Frye and Minnie M. Tullus had been married for one year. They were found living in Claiborne, Bienville, Ouachita, Morehouse, and Bastrop Parishes in Louisiana. 

Andrew Grover Frye died at age 72 and is buried in Pine Grove South Cemetery in Bastrop Parish. His obituary can be seen below. 

Obituary for Andy Grover GROVER FRYE (Aged 72) Thu, May 14, 1959 – Page 5 · The Monroe News-Star (Monroe, Louisiana) · Newspapers.com

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Sources 

"Andy Grover Frye." The Monroe News-Star 67, no.114 (1959): 5. 

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

Louisiana, Claiborne Parish. 1900 U. S. Census, population schedule. Database with images. Ancestry. https://www.ancestry.com : 2020. 

Louisiana, Claiborne Parish. 1910U. S. Census, population schedule. Database with images. Ancestry. https://www.ancestry.com : 2020. 

Louisiana, Bienville Parish. 1920 U. S. Census, population schedule. Database with images. Ancestry. https://www.ancestry.com : 2020. 

Louisiana, Ouatchita Parish. 1930 U. S. Census, population schedule. Database with images. Ancestry. https://www.ancestry.com : 2020. 

Louisiana, Morehouse Parish. 1940 U. S. Census, population schedule. Database with images. Ancestry. https://www.ancestry.com : 2020. 

Friday's Photo: Miriam Marguerite Walters Braswell

Miriam Marguerite Walters Braswell
1902-1990

Marguerite Walters
Yellow Pine, La.

This is another photo from Marguerite Cook Clark's collection. I could not find a family relationship with Marguerite Cook Clark's families. Miriam Marguerite Walters was born on January 7, 1902 in Webster Parish, Louisiana. She was the daughter of Henry Calvin Walters and Frances Jane Webb; both from Kentucky.  She married Claiborne Lloyd Braswell on December 25, 1924.

Found at Newspapers.com

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Sources

Family photographs and documents from the collection of Marguerite Cook Clark. Accessed April 28, 2014, September 14, 2014, and November 9 to 11, 2016. Used with permission. 

"Family Trees results for Marguerite Walters." Ancestry https://www.ancestry.com/search/categories/42/?indiv=try&h&db. Accessed 1 May. 2020.

"Obituary for Marguerite Walter Braswell."  Newspapers.com https://www.newspapers.com/clip/50012964/obituary-for-marguerite-walter-braswell/. Accessed 1 May. 2020.

Friday's Photo: Charlie Arrealous Fields

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This photo of Charlie Arrealous Fields is another from the Frye family collection. He was born in Heflin, Webster Parish on October 15, 1898 and was the son of Andrew Jackson Fields and Martha Elizabeth Smith. He was married to Annie Lemore Dickerson in 1922. 


He lived in Bienville, Franklin, and Caddo Parishes before leaving for California. 

Charlie Arrealous Fields died in El Cajon, San Diego County, California in 1968  and is buried in Bistineau Cemetery, Heflin, Webster Parish in Louisiana. 

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Sources

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


Havens, M. "Charlie Arrealous Fields" Ancestry.com. Web. 29 March 2018.   <https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/105489724/person/420046905034/facts>