From the Files of Marguerite Cook Clark: Tulette Bryan Barron

Tulette Bryan Barron 1875 - 1952

Tulette Bryan, the daughter of Augustus "Bud" Reddick Bryan and Erie Ontario Nix,  was born on February 24, 1875 in Bienville Parish, Louisiana. She was the granddaughter of Joseph B. Bryan and Sarah M. Wimberly and a great-granddaughter of Reddick Bryan and Elizabeth Regan. 

Written on the photo
"Cousin Tulette Bryan"

Tulette, a life-long resident of Bienville Parish,  married Horace Otis Barron on August 1, 1918. He was a farmer in the Ringgold area. They had no children. 

Tulette died on September 16, 1952. She is buried in the Wimberly Cemetery.  

Diana

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Sources

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

"Louisiana Death Records." Louisiana Death Records. 16 Sept. 1952. Web. 16 Feb. 2015. <http://www.sos.la.gov/HistoricalResources/ResearchHistoricalRecords/LocateHistoricalRecords/Pages/LouisianaDeathRecords.aspx>

Wimberly, Vera. Wimberly Family History: Ancestors, Relatives, and Descendants of William Wimberly, Pioneer from Georgia to Louisiana, 1837. Houston, Tex.: D. Armstrong, 1979. Print.

Friday's Photo: Eddye Kathryn Keith, Another Photo Mystery Solved

This photo has had me guessing for 15 years. It was one of many unlabeled photos sent to me by my cousin, Jackie.  After looking at children in my Bryan family tree, I narrowed it to my aunts, Marie and DeRay, or their cousins, the daughters of Laura Louise Bryan Keith, Laura Louise and Eddye Katheryn Keith. 

The girls really didn't look like other photos of Marie and DeRay and I didn't have known photos of the Keith girls . . . until September. 

While looking at the files of Marguerite Cook Clark, I found this photo and immediately recognized her as one of the girl's in my photo. On the back is written 

Eddye Katheryn Keith 

Age 7 months  

Stephenville, Texas

Daughter of Laura Keith nee Bryan

November 8, 1903

Eddye Kathryn was the second of three children born to Laura Louise Bryan and William Harve Keith.  The first daughter, unnamed, was born and died in 1900. She is buried next to her mother in West End Cemetery, Stephenville, Texas. 

Kathryn appears to have been born in 1903. Her younger sister, Laura Louise was born in 1905, and their mother, my grandfather's youngest sister, passed away from complications related to typhoid in 1908. 

The girls were living with Keith family members in 1910 and 1920. Kathryn married Wayne Merrill Chandler on June 21, 1922 at the Keith home.

The two girls in the photo are most likely Kathryn and Louise Keith. Another photo mystery is solved; however, now I have additional questions. 

Kathryn is said to have died in Colorado in 1925 and is buried in West End Cemetery in Stephenville. Her sister, Laura Louise may have lived in Colorado along with Kathryn. Why was Kathryn in Colorado and how did she die? 

Diana

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Sources

Ancestry.com. U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012.

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

The Dublin Progress and Telephone (Dublin, Tex.), Vol. 35TH YEAR, No. 10, Ed. 1 Friday, June 30, 1922, Newspaper, June 30, 1922; (http://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth561839/ : accessed February 13, 2015), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, http://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Dublin Public Library, Dublin, Texas.

Year: 1910; Census Place: Stephenville Ward 3, Erath, Texas; Roll: T624_1550; Page: 2B; Enumeration District: 0017; FHL microfilm: 1375563.

Year: 1920; Census Place: Stephenville, Erath, Texas; Roll: T625_1801; Page: 12B; Enumeration District: 5; Image: 121.

Beyond 52 Ancestors: #53 Carl Forrest Greenway

The solid lines indicate that the connection to the family is documented while
the dotted lines indicate that direct evidence has not yet been found to
make the connection. Click on the family tree to see a larger image.

Carl Forrest Greenway
(1917-1974)

Carl Forrest Greenway died in 1974, but I feel as if I have been collaborating with him about the Hairston family for the last fifteen years. Some of his letters, found in the Georgia State Archives were sent to me in 1999. On a visit to the New York Public Library in 2000, I copied some of his letters and notes found in four very large binders. That same year, another researcher sent a copy of a letter found in the Bassett Historical Center.

Carl F. Greenway researched the early Hairstons of Virginia and pointed out information in other research that did and did not make sense. He did not have the advantage of the Internet so traveled throughout the south and to Salt Lake City to find family. He often spent time talking to and writing to distant cousins. From those interviews and letters about his mother's Hairston family, I found clues to help me further my research.

I know that I need to go back to the NYPL and maybe to the Bassett Historical Center and the Georgia State Archives. At the New York Pubic Library, I only copied what I thought was pertinent. However, I now know so much more about this branch of the Hairston family. Names such as McBurnett, McKain, Stallings, Simonton, White, and McCauley meant nothing to me in 2000. Did I miss something? I need to know. 

Carl's letters indicate that he sent research to the North Carolina State Archives. Recently, I found one item in the Family History Library in Salt Lake City. That's two additional places to search. Were there more documents to find? Did he spread his research around according to state and family? Or, did he make copies to send to various repositories? Did those binders at the NYPL contain all of his research?

Friday's Photo: Dad's Garage

I was surprised to find this photo of Dad when cleaning out a desk drawer. Not a great photo of Dad, but loved that I could see so much of the garage. On the table were his crossword puzzle book and a dictionary.  

We had parties in the garage.
This was probably my 9th
birthday in 1964, 

Dad's garage was probably one of the busiest places in the house. The washer and dryer were housed in the garage, it was the home of Dad's tools, and it was the family entry and exit point. On rainy days, we played in the garage. Mom's childhood chalkboard was on the wall and a hopscotch was painted on the floor. 

Dad's workbench
Always neat and clean

It was Dad's man-cave. He read the paper and did his crossword puzzles in the garage. A phone, a refrigerator, and even a small television were kept in his garage. 

When grandchildren came along, their growth was measured on one wall. Dad passed away in 2001. Mom sold the house in 2008. Before she moved,  I took photos of the marks on the wall. 

 Paul, Jason, Emily, and Will - these are for you. 

The first photo shows growth marks and dates for Emily and Jason.

Just above are marks and dates for William and Paul. William was the last one measured on May 12, 2008. 

Diana

© 2015

Friday's Photo: Is this a Giddens?

This was passed on to me a few years ago by a Giddens descendant. She found it with other Giddens photos. What branch of the military did this man serve AND, when was this photo taken. 

Diana

© 2015

From the Files of Marguerite Cook Clark: Charles Jefferson Frye of Ringgold, Bienville Parish, Louisiana

These are two of the many, many clippings found in the collection of Marguerite Cook Clark of Ringgold in Bienville Parish, Louisiana.  Charles Jefferson Frye was married to Allie Belle Trott, a cousin of Marguerite. Both Marguerite and Allie Belle are descendants of my great-great-grandfather, Reddick Bryan. 

I take the blame for the poor copy of the obituary to the right so created the transcription below. 

C. J. Frye Expires At Age of 70

Funeral services for C. J. Frye of Ringgold were held Wednesday afternoon in Ringgold. Mr. Frye died of a heart attack Tuesday afternoon. He was 70.

Services were held at the Ringgold First Methodist Church at 3 p. m. Officiating were Rev. Roy Grant, Rev. Floyd A. McCarty, and Rev. Kenneth Gipson.  Burial was in Providence Cemetery under direction of Rockett Funeral Home of Ringgold.

Mr. Frye was a veteran of World War I, a member of the American Legion and the Ringgold Methodist Church. A retired groceryman, he had lived in Ringgold for the past 40 years. He served the town as marshal from 1936 to 1939 and as Mayor from 1958 to 1962. He taught the Men’s Bible Class and served on the official board of the Ringgold Methodist Church. He had served as chairman of the official board. He was a native of Fryeburg.

Survivors are Mrs. Allie Bell Trot Frye of Ringgold, a son Billy Lee Frye of Baton Rouge, a grandson Charles (Chuck) Frye of Bossier City, two nieces, Mrs. Rene Roberson of Gilliam and Mrs. Ruby Metcalf of Little Rock.

Pallbearers were the following stewards of Ringgold Methodist Church: Robert P. Conley, Edward Davis, O. D. Jones, Bob Mitchell Jr., Floyd S. Radzikowski, Roger Sparks, Dr. D. P. Thomas, and E. S. Woodard. Honorary pallbearers were E. B. Gipson, Alvin Lawson, Rev. Floyd McCarty, G. B. McCoy, George Thomas, C. E. Williams, and Lex Fair. 

Diana

© 2015

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

Friday's Photos: The Gresham / Clifton Family

Gresham / Clifton family members at a family reunion
in the late 1940s - possibly Baylor County, Texas. 

The men in this photo, copied when visiting a distant cousin from my Hairston family in 2001, were identified today. From left to right - Bill Clifton, Pete Clifton, Fate Gresham, and Alton Clifton. 

Fate Gresham was the son of William Gresham and Stella Chisum. Stella, my grandmother's first cousin, was the daughter of Martha Elizabeth "Mattie" Hairston Chisum Thompson. 

Pete Clifton was Fate's brother-in-law, the husband of Fate's sister, Frances Jewel Gresham. Bill and Alton are the sons of Frances Jewel and Pete. 

Diana

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Friday's Photo: Jacqueline Dudley Skinner

Jacqueline "Jackie" Dudley Skinner - About 1955

Jackie and her father

Jackie was my father's niece, the daughter of his older sister, Willa Mae Bryan, and James "Jimmy" Dudley. Dad was 12 years old when Jackie was born in 1932. 

Jackie researched our family without the benefit of computers and helped me at the beginning of my research.  She sent me a box of primarily unidentified photos that has
kept me busy for years. 

Jackie died on November 23, 2003 in Denver, Colorado.  Her genealogy papers were donated to the Denver Public Library. 

Diana

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Friday's Photo: McNeil Wylie and John Mayo

An undated photo of McNeil Wylie and John Mayo. They were first cousins once removed. McNeil was the son of Dollie Bryan Wylie and John, the son of Ollie Hammett Mayo who was the daughter of Dollie's sister, Alice Bryan Hammett. 

Want to know more about how to determine relationships such as a first cousin once removed? Visit the Encyclopedia of Genealogy for a nice explanation of relationship terms. 

Diana

© 2015

Source

Family photo from the collection of Judy McAlister. Used with permission. 

52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks: I Completed the Challenge!!

That was it! #52 was just posted! Blogger, Amy Johnson Crow challenged bloggers to write about 52 Ancestors in 52 weeks and I took it a bit farther and wrote only about those related to my Hairston family. I wanted to prove (or disprove) that Hugh Brown Hairston was the father of my great-great-grandfather, John L. Hairston. I did not achieve the goal, but my Hairston research is very well organized. And, I certainly know much more about John L. Hairston, my great-grandfather, Phillip A. Hairston, his siblings, possible cousins, and the Hairston family in general. 

However, I am not finished. I haven't even begun writing about John L. Hairston's daughter, Permelia Hairston Noah, and her family. There are more Hairston family members in Alabama and Arkansas that also need attention and several of my 52 ancestors need to be revisited.

I will continue to number the ancestors and add them to my family chart. It won't be "52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks" as that pace was much too difficult. Instead, you will see one or two new Hairston posts a month with the title "Beyond 52 Ancestors."

Thank you to Amy Johnson Crow for creating the challenge and to all of you who read and shared my posts! 

Diana

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