Alone On A Limb: June 2015

Wednesday, June 24, 2015

Five Favorite Family Photos…

Here are five of my very favorite old family photos…

My Great Great Grandfather Thomas Wesley Wilkerson with his dog. Nance's Creek community near Piedmont, Alabama. This picture has always intrigued me. It is one of my very favorites from my grandmother's three albums. Thomas' son Charles Rueben Wilkerson was the father of my grandmother Lillian Ophelia Wilkerson Shaw.
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Relationship:

Thomas Wesley Wilkerson

Charles Rueben Wilkerson

Lillian Ophelia Wilkerson

Charles Columbus Shaw

Charles Terrell Shaw

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My mischievous father, Charles Columbus Shaw, in "Botush" Creek, I think. I was grown before I discovered that "Botush" is properly spelled "Boar Tusk". Of course this could be in the Yellow River that also runs through Milstead. I first saw this picture when we stopped by to see my grandfather's sister Annie Hicks (or was it Miriam Reeves?) at Snellville. Several years later I was thrilled to learn that it was not lost but had been scanned and shared by my cousin Annette Winningham.
Deborah Shaw Lewis commented: I do not remember ever seeing this pic. I see Joshua Hearn and Andrew Lewis in this.

My great great grandmother, Mary Whaley Wood and her cow.

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Relationship:

Mary Whaley

Minnie Ziporah Wood

Grady Columbus Shaw

Charles Columbus Shaw

Charles Terrell Shaw

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Comments (2015)

George Barton

love this photo, "American Gothic" with a spin.

Michael J. Burton
Amen George Barton

Annie Shields
I think this is the nicest old family photo have ever seen.

Comments (2018)

Gary Sarah Pace

A treasure.

Hilda Atkins Moore

John Paul Schulz
I really like that one.

Jo Ann Thompson
As a Genealogist I'm proud to see this photo Terrell

Jeanne Cahill
I came from a dairy farm background and know how to milk a cow. Love the photo.

Hilda Atkins Moore
Also at age 5 became a part of a Dairy Farm, but never really milked a cow......If you have read my Memoir, Two Sons Twice Born, you know my story. Best to you. Hilda Moore.

Michael J. Burton
Definitely s classic

Dona Ward
Awesome pic!

Nathan Wood, my great great grandfather, who lied about his age and signed up with the First Georgia Cavalry at sixteen to fight in the Civil War.

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Relationship:

Nathan Wood

Minnie Ziporah Wood

Grady Columbus Shaw

Charles Columbus Shaw

Charles Terrell Shaw

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My great grandparents, Minnie Wood Shaw and Columbus Turner Shaw with three of their children including (right) Grady Columbus Shaw, my grandfather.

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Relationship:

Minnie & Lum Shaw

Grady Columbus Shaw

Charles Columbus Shaw

Charles Terrell Shaw

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Gleaning Facebook: Favorite Old Family Pictures

Here are the five favorite old family photos that I intended to post on Facebook today:

Nathan Robert Wood, my great great grandfather, who lied about his age and signed up with the First Georgia Cavalry at sixteen. He died at age 85 in 1930.

My mischeivous father, Charles Columbus Shaw, in the creek -- "Bo'Tush Creek In think. Annie Shaw Hicks, my great aunt showed us this picture at her home -- was it in Snellville? -- just a few years before her death. I was so glad when I discovered that a digital copy had been made of it and it was not lost when she died. If Daddy was five here this would have been the summer of 1924.

My great great grandmother, Mary Whaley Wood and her cow. I think their home was in Porterdale, Georgia. She died at age 69 in September of 1919.

Facebook Comments:

George Barton

Love this photo, "American Gothic" with a spin.

Michael J. Burton
Amen George Barton

Annie Shields
I think this is the nicest old family photo have ever seen.

My great grandparents, Minnie Wood Shaw and Columbus Turner Shaw with three of their children including L-R: Lewis Quillian Shaw, Sr., James Curtis Shaw, Sr., and Grady Columbus Shaw, Sr. (my grandfather). James was born in January of 1903 so this picture would have been later that year.

My Great Great Grandfather Thomas Wesley Wilkerson with his dog. Nance's Creek, Alabama. Thomas died at age 63 in June of 1903. I estimate he was at least 60 in this picture. I love this picture and use it when I tell my "Grandpa Wilkerson Knew His Dogs" story, which is my version of Donald Davis's wonderful "Barking At a Fox-Fur Coat".