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My best friend a long time ago.
Smitty500mag
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Me and Bess at my Poppaw's place in Clear Springs, TN back in the 50s. She got a little shaggy in the winter time. The tamest and friendliest little pony ever.
I didn't really care about having my picture taken but Mom always had her camera close by. Glad she did now.
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Nice picture, thanks for sharing Smitty. Why do you both have such long faces??🤣
We didn't want our pictures taken. 😉
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nice old photo and keep sake to pass along thanks for posting 😉
sure looks like some of the old photos I have from when my family lived in TN.
I have one of me on a mule for many years as kid I thought it was rea it was in moms old photo album I could not figure out who owned the donkey . many many year's later mom told me it was a stuffed Mule in front of dog patch zoo ( in Tennessee we use to stop at a lot one of the old road side attraction's of years ago ) )
I have only a couple of my dad or his family one of which is his family all standing beside his only brothers coffin before burying the brother he had 7 or 8 sisters though and he was the youngest of all
back then few people had a camera and most photos were weddings or funerals with a few family photos tossed in at least what I have seen from our family . . my mom received a brownie camera for graduation so she took most all photos of any family after that ( I have her old camera no value but means the world to me )
one of my mom when she was younger and in Tn .
Nice pictures. I noticed in most of my old family photos they were of people. Rarely of scenery, like many are today.
Great pics. Thank you all for sharing !
My Dad's family making sorghum syrup just East of Texarkana, AR, 1922. Colorized by one of my aunts. That's my Dad, front left.
I rode anything that had 4 legs (goats, hogs, cows/bulls, mules, horses etc.) on the farm, used folded over burlap bags for saddles and rope for bridles and if they were too wild to ride, there was always a wagon to fit each was close by. Ole Roy Rodgers had nothing on me 😀
"Never do wrong to make a friend----or to keep one".....Robert E. Lee
Rid'em while you were standing on a stump don't count as riding per se. 😁
Seated in the picture is my Great Grandmother Mary Magdon (Maggie) Miller born 12/08/1862 died 10/03/1943. She's holding one of her 9 children, my Great Uncle Doc, born 12/28/1890 died 08/29/1989, he almost made it to 100. And standing is Great Grandma's sister my Great Great Aunt Elda. I don't know her age but the picture was taken in 1891.
My Great Grandpa keep a record of all of their births in the bible and their youngest daughter Jimmie kept a record of all of their death dates in the same bible except for her own of course. I called Mom earlier today and she said Aunt Jim died in 1996. I have copies of those pages of the bible is the reason I know the dates.
The picture has some bad places on it especially on Aunt Elda's face but it held up pretty good to be so old. They never realized that someday their picture would be in a place where the whole world could be able to see them 131 years later.
Below is a picture of my Great Great Grandpa and Grandma Morrell in Bristol, TN sometime in the late 1800s or early 1900s. My Mom said she loved him so much when she was a little girl. She said he looks a little mean in the picture but he was a very gentle old soul that loved his grandkids and was always playing with them.
wonderful photos thanks it truly a good think to have th efamily bible and know the history of the family
seems any more most younger people do not care
your photos remind me so much of photos of my relation in Tennessee
I sure your aware the photo could be remastered or what ever they call it and do away with the bad splotches and still have the original but have a restored one also to share
I have one photo of my grand father in WWI sitting on a old REO truck I am guessing truck my dad and I tracked it down before he passed away he remembered seeing it as a kid and after hours of driving and asking and back tracking family members ( trip back to TN ) we found a old lady she was like a great aunt or cousin to him that still had it in a old cake tin box with some more
any way it was in bad shape so I had a local photo store / shop restore it . this was 20 years ago and sent copys to many of the family . then a few years later my oldest son who love to take photos redid it again he did better that the shop did
Here you go Smitty A little bit better for some great pics
That is an improvement. Thanks
Interesting how all the ancestor pictures around here never had a smiling face in them, always a stern or solemn look.
Some might say that was due to a hard life, I am pretty sure the life the lived at the time was as good as they could get, they didn't know any difference.
Everyone in this area had the same lifestyle, no rich and no poor, just blessed.
My great, great, great, great grandfather lived in a hollowed out chestnut log, remember they were over 12 feet through, while he was building his log cabin. The cabin was aboutt 1/4 mile from where I live.
Ole Dan'el was one of my ancestors to.
This one is my Great Grandpa Monday and his dog in Knoxville, TN after a quail hunt. Not sure of the date but it looks like he's holding his Winchester Model 1897 pump 12 ga. Must have been before he bought his 1912 or else he would have been holding it. His mustache was not white yet so it had to be pretty early in the 1900s. I still have both of the guns along with a lot of his other guns.
Great pics guys. I'm a sucker for bird dogs and old shotguns. Here's my great great grandma and grandpa. I'll throw in a bird dog