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File Identification:Watson-014 | Date Scanned:Summer, 2006 | Source of Scanned Image:W.H. Outlaw Jr. | |
| Original Source of Image:Christine W. Outlaw | Digital Archiver:W.H. Outlaw Jr. | Image Restorer: | ||
| Original Image Size: | Scan Resolution (dpi) (Reduced files=200 dpi):600 | Exact Date of Original Image: | ||
| Estimated Date of Original Image:1936 | Basis for Date Estimate:guess--Mama would have been 19 then. | Unreduced File Size(px):1452 x 2064 | ||
| Location:unknown | Background: | Activity: | ||
| Unreduced File Size(MB):3.0 | Reduced File Size (px):408 x 600 | Reduced File Size (KB):84 | ||
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| Subjects:A. Christine Watson (= Christine Watson); Lerene Sirmons; Minnie L. Adams; the boy is possible Authur Adams. | ||||
| Comments:Lerene and Minnie were Mama\'s first cousins. Lerene (daughter of Mamie Sirmons nee Fountain) and Mama were life-long associates until Lerene\'s death in the late 1990s or early 2000s. Early on, Lerene was married to William Fender (whose photograph and more will be added) and they made their home on our farm for a brief period (I thought for one year, but Carolyn thinks for several years) in a long-gone house as described in the following. On the western side of Mark Watson Road, the southern boundary of our farm joins what was Aunt Lena\'s (which she inherited from her mother, from her father, and by agreement with the other heirs of her father, viz. Granny Della, Daddy, and Uncle Buren). On the east side of the Mark Watson Road, the southern boundary of our farm again joins Aunt Lena\'s and, a bit further in the swamp (=Buck Bay), what was Uncle Joe\'s. A low spot on the west side drains into Buck Bay under the Mark Watson Road. This spot in the Mark Watson Road was always called Beaver Dam, although no beavers were there in my childhood. Beavers must have been there earlier, and certainly were there later (from my young adulthood until now). In any case, the Fenders lived in a small log cabin east of the Mark Watson Road and north of Beaver Dam. Really, I don\'t remember much about this house, except the day it was torn down, and I don\'t know why it was torn down, and not simply abandoned. Tearing the house down was, as with other things, a family affair--\"everyone\" worked and lunch was served at Aunt Lena\'s. The general structure of the house was simple--a half porch on the front and traveler\'s room on the other side of the front. The back also had a porch or stoop. The house was set at an angle to the road, suggesting the course of the road might have changed. (This is likely the location of a foot-log that Daddy was required to help Mama across on the way to Deep Ditch School. I wish I had been more attentive to details.) I remember that Bob Drake was there and prominent in the deconstruction and that a wasp nest was disturbed. The rest is blank (except--the Wades and Richardsons lived there at some time, too), but I will try to supplement this information--it seems a shame that a house could protect and nurture people and then vanish, even from memory. At the time that Lerene and William lived on the farm, Daddy and Uncle Buren each had a half interest in the farm and they farmed together. Since Daddy had another job teaching, William made up for slack for Daddy when he was gone to his \"town\" job. Check out Mama\'s stockings! Last edit 2012-10-05 |
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