August 23

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO...

Nellie Jane Searcy Spain 1915-1991

Nellie Jane is second from right -- with her arms crossed.

Nellie Jane was the daughter of Edith Burford.

Edith Burford was one of the three children that Alexander Oscar Burford, Jr. had with his first wife, Helen Virginia Lockard, before he married my great-grandmother Lora Gibson Burford.

Photo (L to R): Alexander Oscar Burford, Hazel, Raymond, Edith, Helen Virginia.

Edith married Will Searcy in 1909, and they had six children - Laura, Eleanor, Nellie Jane, Bill, Willene, and Jerry. Edith and her four daughters - Laura, Eleanor, Nellie Jane, and Willene, are in this group photo.

Nellie Jane married Eugene Spain in 1934, and they had two sons - John William and Richard Wayne. (The little boy in the photo is not one of theirs.) This picture would have been taken in 1949. The picture below was taken on the same day.

This photo contains Eugene Spain (tagged), and also Richard and John Spain -- but I'm not sure which ones they are. I think John is in back, between the man with the hat and the man with the tie. Based on their ages, Richard is probably the boy behind/between the two younger boys in front.

The rest of the people in these pictures are in some way related to or associated with Raymond and Edith Burford -- in-laws, grandchildren, etc.