This is a photo in my grandmother's collection. Is he related? Fannie Ethel (Chase) Davis born b 15 Oct 1885 Fulton Co, AR d 13 Nov 1960 Dade Co, FL
m 18 Oct 1903 William Milton Davis b 10 Dec 1880 Denton Co, TX
Grandma didn't write on the back of this photo - so they don't know who he is! Can you help? In any case, he just makes us smile - what a cutie in the 1930's and what a head of curls!
I inherited a box of my Great Aunts family photos. Luckily we showed them to dad’s elderly cousin and she knew most of them. I wrote down the names. So glad we did that. If anybody reading this has old photos and you have older relatives, go see them and ask questions. You’ll be so glad you did and they will enjoy looking back at the photos also.
In my grandmothers bible. There was a picture of a little baby girl in a casket. We don't know who she was. Neither did neighbors! Sure was a sad photo.
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Thankfully, one of my Grandmothers was very good about putting names on pictures. No dates but always names. She said it was because she had very old photos she inherited with no names so she wanted to make sure she didn't cause the same problem.
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The 1930's were a decade of severe stress: the Great Depression, the Dust Bowl, the rise of Nazism. But it was also the end of Prohibition, the beginning of the change of land management (poor farm ...