The Woods Is Full Of ‘Em

Saturday, January 30, 2021

January 30

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ...

John Dallas Treat 1900

Leonard Carl Richard Till 1903

Also...

Lorene Olive Gibson 1910-1967
Rosa Emaline Rhoades 1887
Edna Ethel Cousins 1901

Friday, January 29, 2021

January 29

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO

Golden L 'Doc' Barnett 1914-1982

Pictured here with his wife Irene Hicks Barnett.

Stephen Jay Bridges 1968

William George Thomas 1863-1945

Also... Daniel J Parker 1939, Justin Ryan Seymour 1986, Larry Gene Vincent 1981

Thursday, January 28, 2021

January 28

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO...

Donnie Jeneal Burford 1949

Also...

Brady Lee Gray 2004

Julia Ann Umphrey 1833

Wednesday, January 27, 2021

January 27

Believe it or not, there are no family birthdays in my records for January 27th!

ANNIVERSARY: Samuel Parker married Nancy Gardiner in 1820.

MEMORIAL: Elmer Sidney Baker (husband of Agnes Earle Carter), born in 1910, died on 27 January 1980.

Tuesday, January 26, 2021

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO... Ellis Gard 1908-1908, Flossie Gard 1908, Ronald Lynn Tatum 1959, and Samantha Faye Hernandez 1989.

I don't have pictures of any of these people. But I have a picture of Ronald Lynn Tatum's mother, Opie Arnold Tatum. Opie was a first cousin to my grandmother, Cleffie, and they were the same age. Here's a picture of Cleffie and Opie with Opie's twin sister Obie...

And here is a picture of Opie as a teenager with Elmer Reed.

Eighty-some-odd years later, Elmer Reed married my grandmother, Cleffie. They had known each other as teenagers and re-connected at a family reunion. Yes, that's right -- she met her husband at a FAMILY REUNION. Well, you see, Elmer's brother Elvin had married Opie's sister Wilma (when she was not quite 15 years old), so that would explain why Elmer would have been at the annual Arnold/Carter family reunion.

Cleffie and Elmer met up at the family reunion one year and got married in 1999 when she was 82 and he 84 years old.