In and Around Franklin, NC

We often go to the Ray Family Researchers held annually in October, just outside Franklin, NC, in the Iolta Community.  Here, over  150 years ago several of my ancestral lines roamed, farmed, fished, bought and sold land, arrested people, got arrested, and wheeled and dealt.  A lot of my distant cousins are still on these lands.

Mountain View Cemetery, Marietta, Ga

Grandparents Frank and Minnie Tyson Hunter

Larry Holcomb

Uncle Jack, his wife Ruby has been buried since this photo 

Uncle and Aunt Stanley and Sarah Frasure Hunter

Uncle Bill McLemore wife SarahPetty has been buried since this photo

Uncle and aunt Bill and Eloise Foster Meek

Great uncle

Great Aunt

Cousin

Cousin

Perry Parham, childhood friend and Marietta Sports Hero

Aunt Sarah Petty McLemore

Friend

cousin

Friend Howard White, wife Lois was buried since this photo

Oaklawn Cemetery, Jonesboro, Ark

Years ago Anna had a week long business conference in Memphis.  I tagged along.  I forgot my camera.  One day while she was busy with business I drove to Jonesboro, Arkansas, I knew my great  great grandfather Jason Henderson Hunter spent the last years of his life there.  I wanted to find his grave.  I did not find his grave, but I did his granddaughter Edith Hunter Sims and her off springs.

The cemetery was swarming with Dragon Flies.

Noonday Baptist Church, Marietta, Ga

Carol Joe Clayton and I lived next door to each other in the Clay Homes when we were toddlers.

The Lances are from Union County, in north Georgia.  Relatives of moine

Anna's cousin

Anna's great grandfathr

Anna's brother

Anna's cousins

My friend and co-worker' Joe Wilke's three children, killed in one wreck