The following pictures are of an old house my Daddy lived in
as a kid in Kentucky. I took these
pictures when I was back home for a visit in 2012. This old run down abandoned house is just
past the old Love Graveyard in Crittenden County. I had been visiting with Uncle Bobby and Uncle
George and I was asking them questions, places they had lived, family, etc. They told me this old house was still
standing and directions on how to get there.
If anyone wants to go see this
house themselves here are the directions. You take Hwy 60W towards Salem out of Marion
and go till you get to State Route 297 and make a right, this road goes to
Sheridan. You will continue down 297 until
you see the sign for the Love Graveyard and you will make a right off 297 on to
the Love Cemetery Road, just go right past the cemetery and it is the first
house you come to on the left.
All of them were living here in 1940 except for Daddy’s oldest
brother, William who was grown and lived in Providence, Webster County,
Kentucky. Can you even begin to imagine having eight
kids in this tiny house and by August of 1940 a new baby, plus the two adults? Uncle George couldn’t remember exactly how
long they lived in this house, but Uncle Bobby was born there. In Daddy’s little history he wrote that they
moved into Marion sometime in the spring of 1941 and lived in a couple of
different old houses there in town until they moved out to California in July
of 1943, after his parents were divorced.
The following is the
1940 census, which shows everyone that was living in this house at that time. My Daddy is marked with the heart, he was the
baby until Uncle Bobby came along.
I believe this next
picture was taken in front of this house since Uncle Bobby is just a baby and
his sister, my Aunt Dale is holding him and my Daddy, is standing right behind
them with Aunt Sis setting in the chair behind them all.
This next picture I believe
was also taken by this house, it is from oldest to youngest, my Daddy’s three
sisters, Helen, Dale and Violet or as everyone calls her Aunt Sis. As you can see Aunt Dale and Aunt Sis look to
have the same dress on in both pictures.
This next picture
with my Daddy and three of his brothers I think may have been taken at this
house too. From left to right is Uncle
Don, Uncle Jack, Uncle George and my Daddy.
This next picture is
of Mama Jessie with her two oldest boys William Teague and Harold Walls. This picture may have been taken by this
house as well. Papaw Beard was always
behind the camera so I don’t have too many pictures of him by himself or with
any of the kids.
Out of the ten children my Mama Jessie had only three are
still with us today, Uncle George, Aunt Sis and Uncle Bobby. Uncle George is actually flying from Kentucky
to California today with his niece, Crystal, Uncle Jack’s oldest daughter to go
and visit his sister, my Aunt Sis in Clovis.
Jack and Sis were twins and were number 7 and 8 of Mama Jessie’s ten children. They are both so looking forward to seeing each
other again, it has been a few years and neither one is getting any younger,
Uncle George will be 88 this year and Aunt Sis just turned 82 last month. I can’t wait until Crystal gets pictures
taken and uploaded online for all of us to see.
Crystal and Uncle George saying goodbye in a selfie on the plane to California about an hour ago.
Just thinking about the happy reunion they will
have this evening and so I wanted to write a little memory story about my Daddy
and his siblings.
