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Wordless Wednesday: Mae Albritton Adams

Posted on May 15, 2013 by Queen Bee

Mae Albritton Adams (seated on right) & Friends, not dated

This is my paternal grandmother Mae Albritton Adams (seated on the right) with unidentified friends.  Because of a fire at her parents home, no images exist from her childhood.  This is the earliest photo I have of her as a young woman.

Mae Albritton Adams closeup.jpg

Today is the first anniversary of her death; she passed away  at the age of 92 just a few days shy of her 93rd birthday.   My grandmother lived a long full life and I have no doubt she’s enjoying her new home in Heaven and being reunited with family and friends.

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Wordless Wednesday: A Spring day in 1973

Posted on May 8, 2013 by Queen Bee

Queen Bee & Siblings, Spring of 1973 resized

My younger siblings and I on a Spring day in 1973.  I’m on the yellow tractor that belonged to my brother and I’m way too big to be riding it.   My brother’s seated on my sister’s old tricycle and she’s on my first bike which I blogged about  last year.  Sure wish my yellow banana seat bicycle was in the photo, for some reason I wasn’t riding it.  I loved that bike! We moved not long after this picture was taken to the house where my parents have lived for the past 40 years.

 

 

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Wordless Wednesday: The Watson Sisters

Posted on May 1, 2013 by Queen Bee

Bethel Watson Montgomery

Bethel Watson Montgomery (1859-1925)

Dora Watson Hill

Eldora “Dora” Watson Hill (1872-1928)

Bethel and Dora are my second great grand aunts and the children of Perry Michael Watson and Martha Hart.  Their older sister Mary Elizabeth, is my second great grandmother.  There are three more sisters in the Watson family (Philistia Ann, Ellen & Savannah), but unfortunately I don’t have pictures of them.

Those hats are something else!

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Wordless Wednesday: Elizabeth Horn Kelley & Her Brothers

Posted on April 23, 2013 by Queen Bee

Horn Siblings l to r Sheppard K . Horn, Elizabeth (Lizzie) Horn Kelley & Michael Harrison Coleman (Dick) Horn children of Robert Coleman Horn & Sarah (Sallie) Elizabeth Chadwick

This is my great-great grandmother Elizabeth “Lizzie” Horn Kelley with two of her brothers.  There were 18 children in the Horn family – Sheppard (on the left) was the youngest child, born in 1886 and Michael Harrison Coleman “Dick” (on the right) was the second child, born in 1860.  Lizzie was the 11th child and she was born in 1874.

Lizzie was quite a character; this is one of my favorite pictures of her.  She appears so confident and I like the way she was dressed.  This photo isn’t dated and was most likely taken in Coffee Springs, Alabama where Lizzie spent most of her adult life.

 

 

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Wordless Wednesday: The Thornton Brothers

Posted on April 16, 2013 by Queen Bee

These handsome men are my first cousins four times removed.  They are the sons of  Robert F. Thornton and Sarah Jane Fielder (my 3rd great grand aunt).  The brothers haven’t been identified in this image; I think the one on the left appears to be the youngest, so he’s probably Napoleon Bonaparte Thornton.  The two older brothers are Francis “Frank” Aberdeen Thornton and Thomas Noland Thornton.   Napoleon was born in 1857, so I estimate this photograph dates to the mid to late 1870s.

Their parents gave them such nice strong names.  I especially like Francis Aberdeen and Thomas Noland.

 

 

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Wordless Wednesday: Shelley Greene’s Class Photo, Circa 1905

Posted on April 10, 2013 by Queen Bee

This is my great-grandfather Shelley Greene’s school class in Dale County, Alabama.   He’s on the second row to the far left wearing a hat and suspenders and holding on to the tree.

Unfortunately the photo isn’t dated.  My great-grandfather was born in August of 1893 and looks to be about 12, so I’m guessing this was taken about 1905.  Most everyone is wearing white, except a few students.  Isn’t the little boy wearing the straw hat and seated on the first row in front of my grandfather adorable?

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Wordless Wednesday: The Albritton Family

Posted on February 20, 2013 by Queen Bee

Here’s a photo of my paternal great-grandparents, Walter Lester Albritton, Sr. and Mary Malissa “Lissie” Forshee with their two oldest children, Louise and Walt, Jr.  This photo was probably taken in 1918 due to the children’s ages.  My grandmother Mae would arrive the following year on May 28, 1919.  Walter and Mary would eventually have ten children, including a set of twins.  I’m sad to say only seven of the children would reach adulthood.

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