August 31

 Ned Jackson Carter married Helen Loeta Padgett 31 August 1935

PHOTOS: Ned Carter, Helen Padgett Carter

Ned was a son of John Martin and Amy Tamsett Carter

PHOTOS: John and Amy Carter

John was a brother of my great-great-grandmother Adaline Carter Arnold.

PHOTO: Ned Jackson Carter

Ned and Helen had one child, Glynda Faye

PHOTO: Glynda Faye Carter

(picture was taken by my great-grandfather Ulysses Hicks)

Here is what Glynda wrote about her parents:

  John and Amy’s second child was Ned Jackson. He was named for his Grandpa Carter and his Grandpa Tamsett. Ned is my father. He was born 26 November 1909. He married Helen Leota Padgett 31 August 1935. They lived at Hardy, Desha and Banner. She was not a well person but worked very hard, sewing

for people and in church. She miscarried twice. I was born 21 September 1939. She had a very hard labor. She should have been in a hospital and had a caesarean, but she only had a country doctor that did not realize that. She hemorrhaged and died 25 September. She is buried at Pine Grove. Ned and baby lived with the Padgetts for about five years. 

  Ned married Maxine Qualls Green in 1945. I lived with them some, but mostly with my Padgett grandparents. Maxine had a boy, Elvis, who was about three years old. Ned and Maxine had no children. 

   Ned was a “Jack of all Trades”. He worked at sawmills, did mechanic work, worked for county road department and also worked as salesperson at two different building supply stores. He has been a piano tuner and rebuilds pianos too. In fact, he still does a lot of piano work. He has lived in Banner since 1939. He plays the piano by ear and has played at Mt. Zion Baptist Church for many years. He has been, and is a great dad.

--Glynda Faye Carter Tucker 1984

PHOTO: Ned Carter, Glynda Carter Tucker and her husband Dwayne.

I took this picture at the Carter/Arnold annual family reunion in Floral, Arkansas, in 1984.

August 30

 Elizabeth Evans Anderson was born 30 August 1840

Elizabeth was a sister of my great-great-great-grandmother Jane Evans Carter.

PHOTO: This is a photo (the picture above is a painting) of Elizabeth with her mother Sarah Bishop Evans. I assume the little girl is Elizabeth's daughter, but I don't know that for sure. I had this photograph a long time before I figured out who the people were. The back of the photo is labeled 'Bett and Sarah, sisters of Adeline carter Arnold' -- but I couldn't reconcile the photo with the genealogy. After a LOT of digging around the internet I was able to finally determine that they were not sisters of Adaline (my great-great-grandmother) but Adaline's aunt (Elizabeth) and grandmother (Sarah).

Generations: Sarah Bishop Evans, Jane Evans Carter, Adaline Carter Arnold, Annie Arnold Hicks (my great-grandmother)

Elizabeth Evans was married to John Anderson, a Civil War soldier.

I believe this is the oldest of all the family photographs in my possession.

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Mary Chlorine Miller married Alvie O Shannon 30 August 1936

I don't have a picture of Alvie Shannon.

Chlorine was a daughter of Violet Hicks and Rom Miller. I don't have a picture of either of them.

Violet was a daughter of Pinkney Hicks (brother of my great-grandfather Ulysses Hicks)

PHOTO: Hicks brothers Ulysses, Felix, Pinkney, and David.

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George Theodore Thomas died 30 August 1920, age 63

From my dad's family history records:

George was a first cousin of my great-grandfather Charles Thomas.

George's father (Uriah) and Charles' father (Washington) were brothers.

August 29

Calvin Olan Jackson was born 29 August 1925

Calvin was a son of Etta Arnold and Ben Jackson.

Etta was the sister of my great-grandmother Annie Arnold Hicks.

PHOTO: Etta and Ben Jackson with their first two children Alvis and Wincel.

Calvin was their third child.

PHOTO: Calvin and Wincel Jackson

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Edgar A Till died 29 August 1942, age 31

Edgar was a brother of Leonard Till, husband of Madge Treat Till (sister of my grandmother Christie Treat Thomas.

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John Thomas Owen III married Clara Lou Queen 29 August 1964

PHOTO: John Thomas Owen III

I don't have a picture of Clara.

John was a great-grandson of Paralee Carter and David Owen

PHOTO: David and Paralee Owen, with their children Clyde, Elmer, John, and Ola Mae.

John Owen (center) was the grandfather of John Thomas Owen III.

Paralee Carter was a sister of my great-great-grandmother Adaline Carter Arnold (mother of Annie Arnold Hicks)

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Nora Ellen Wright was born 29 August 1929

PHOTO: Nora Wright with one of her grandchildren.

Nora was the daughter of Viola Sandefur Solomon,

Viola was a daughter of Nancy Ellen Hicks (sister of my great-grandfather Ulysses Hicks).

PHOTO: Front - Malisa Hicks (my great-great-grandmother ), her daughter Nancy Hicks Sandefur. Back - Nancy's daughters Mae and Viola.

Viola married William Ralph Solomon and they had one child - Nora Ellen. William died when Nora was a baby and Viola never remarried.

Nora married Bill Wright

PHOTO: Bill and Nora Solomon Wright with three of their children.

August 28

Renue L. Thomas was born 28 August 1893, in Bangor, Michigan

Renue was a sister of my grandfather Bill Thomas

PHOTO: Bill and Christie Thomas, Mel and Alta Thomas, Erwin and Renue Thomas Wells

Renue married Erwin Leslie Wells

Erwin and Renue had one child, Melvin T. Wells, who died at birth.

They never had any more children.

From my dad's family history records -

August 26

Agnes Earle Carter was born 26 August 1913 in Arkansas

Agnes was a daughter of John Martin Carter and Amy Tamsett.

John was a brother of my great-great-grandmother Adaline Carter Arnold (mother of Annie Arnold Hicks)

PHOTO: Arnold and Carter cousins - children of John and Amy Carter. 

Arbie and Wilma are children of George Arnold.

PHOTO: Birdie Arnold, Annie Arnold Hicks, Amy Tamsett Carter - with their children. Agnes Carter is 2nd from right.

Agnes married Elmer Sidney Baker

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John Julius Rhoades was born 26 August 1936 in Missouri

John was a son of Ned Herbert Rhoades.

Ned was a son of Margaret Carter Rhoades (sister of my great-great-grandmother Adaline Carter Arnold).

This photo is labeled "Aunt Margaret Rhoades and some of hers"

These are two of her seventeen grandsons, but I don't believe either of them is John Julius Rhoades.

August 25

David Raymond Burford died 25 August 1999, age 85

David was the son of Raymond Minter Burford.

Raymond was the son of my great-grandfather Alexander Oscar Burford, Jr. and his first wife Helen Virginia Lockard.

PHOTO: Alexander and Helen Virginia Burford with their children Raymond, Edith, and Hazel.

PHOTO: Edith, Hazel, Raymond Burford

Raymond married Ruby Lois Thompson

PHOTO: Ruby and Raymond Burford

Raymond and Ruby had three children - David Raymond, Lawrence Thompson, and Joseph Eugene.

PHOTO: Brothers David (2nd from left), Joseph and Lawrence Burford (right)

David Raymond Burford married Elizabeth Jane "E.J." Pittman. They had two children - Sherry and David Raymond, Jr.  

PHOTO: David Raymond, Jr. and David Raymond, Sr.

I don't have a picture of E.J.

I don't have a picture of Sherry. Her son Sean Kidwell is in the photo above.

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A note of thanks to Myra Burford Luker for these photographs.

August 24

Lester Morris Burford, Sr. died 24 August 1990, age 77

PHOTO: Lester Burford, Christmas 1967

Lester Burford was my grandfather. He and my grandmother Cleffie Hicks Burford, were the most influential people in my childhood, other than my parents. They started taking me to church with them from the time I was a baby, and I spent nearly every Saturday night at their house, and all day Sunday with them and whatever friends from church they spent the day with. Lester and Cleffie ("Grandma and Papa") lived in Watervliet, Michigan, just a few miles from where I lived -- in Bangor and later Hartford. When we lived in Bangor, when I was very young, sometimes Mom and Rick and I would ride the train from Bangor to Watervliet to spend the day at Grandma and Papa's, and Dad would drive to Watervliet after work to pick us up. (Yes, one car per family. This was the 1950s -- one car, one phone, one TV... one 'breadwinner' and one 'homemaker'... But I digress...)

PHOTO: Lester and Cleffie Burford, 1967

Lester was a son of Alexander Oscar Burford, Jr. and Lora Gibson Burford.

PHOTO: Alexander and Lora with their first five children - Deb, Helen, Ishmael, George, Killough. They had five more children - Bernice, Lester, Neil, Juanita, and Judy. (Alexander had 3 children with his first wife, Helen Virginia, before he married Lora: Raymond, Edith, and Hazel. They were still young when Helen Virginia died, after which Alexander married Lora.)

PHOTO: Lester Morris Burford, 6 months old (1913)

Lester married Cleffie Lorene Hicks in 1935

Lester and Cleffie were the parents of my mother, Wathada

and my uncles - Morris, Bob, and Ron

Well, it's just about impossible for me to decide which of the hundreds of pictures of Papa to post here, so I guess I'll just skip to the end

These pictures were taken on their 50th wedding anniversary in 1985, at my mom and dad's house in Downey, California. 

PHOTO L-R: Cleffie, Wathada, Morris, and Lester.

These are the last pictures I have of Lester.