Grannie and Koti

Georgie and Koti on a trip (with Tim) to the Blue Ridge Special Scenic train in the Chattahoochee National Forest of Georgia.

Georgie with the Simmons girls

Georgie, Linda, and Ovie with Ruth in front. Linda, Ovie, and Ruth are daughters of Pernie Howser Simmons. They were Garnet's first cousins and their brother Terrell is the boy Georgie dated before she dated Garnet.

From the book Memories Then and Now 1993

Garnet and Georgia met at the home of Garnets aunt and uncle, who just happened to be the parents of the boy Mom was dating at the time, Terrell. Terrell was Garnets cousin and his actions brought Mom and Dad together. After that first meeting it was at a singing convention in Lafayette where they met again. Mom was there with Terrell but he decided he wanted to go to a movie with his fiends so he left her there alone. She met Garnet and spent the day with him before Terrell came back and took her home. Later she went to a ballgame with Terrell and he again took off with his friends so she spent the day with Garnet and let him take her home. One last time she went out with Terrell to the decoration day and he again spent the day with his friends swimming so she spent the day with Garnet. From then on it was her and Garnet with Terrell out of the picture. Terrell didn’t like this to well and boasted he could take Georgia away from Garnet but alas it was not to be.

Family Tree

Here is our current family tree.





















Here's the pedigree for all of Garnet and Georgie's children. If you click on it, you can see it in a larger size that's more legible.

Happy Birthday Bob O.!

Happy 60th!

Joan, Randy, and Carolyn; riding his trike

Randy with his brother Bob; Randy with Granddaughters: Gabby and Kate

Randy is celebrating his 60th birthday today in Kansas with Bonnie, Justin, Kristy, Kate, and Gabby. He's in his 20th year of teaching Auto Tech to high school students in the KY Tech System. He's considering semi-retirement at the end of this school year, but since he has such a good group of students this year he may re-consider.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY RANDY!

Happy Birthday Maddie!

Happy Birthday J.J.!

Happy Birthday Tony!

Happy Birthday Lindsay M!

Congrats!!!

Happy First Anniversary Andrew and Ginger!!!

Drew is working at Greenwood Ford. He’s applied to be a police officer at the BGPD. Ginger is working at Best Buy, and she is planning to start nursing school in the fall. We just found out some other wonderful news—they are expecting a baby this fall. The first great-great grandbaby! We celebrate with you and wish you many more happy years. Best wishes in your plans for the future.

Sitting

Gabriella Georgia-Marie sat up for the first time last night. Yea Gabby! Gabby's favorite picture.

If you have any news--drop me an email and I'll be glad to post it.

Happy Birthday Andrew!

Mary and Harriet Hodges

This photo is of sisters Mary(left) and Harriet(right) Hodges. Harriet is Georgia's grandmother, she married George Lafayette Hughes in 1874. (Mary's photo was found on the internet.) Mary married John Alexander Tuttle and they lived in Allen County, KY.

Georgia's Grandmother Hughes is remembered by her as a sweet-natured, although set in her ways. woman. She had come to Tennessee by way of covered wagon when she was four years old, and used to tell Mom stories about the trip. Whe she was eleven she was living near where the Civil War battle of Shiloh took place and she and her family fled from the area as the soldiers approached. While fleeing she was seperated from her family and she traveled with a black family in a wagon down creek beds so that the soldiers couldn't follow the wagon tracks. She was never able to reconnect with her family and until she married she worked as a "hired". Taking care of the cooking, cleaning and children, in return for bed, meals and money enough to buy clothes. --recorded by Cyndi

Wade Howard and Minerva Blankenship Howser

This was Vadie Howser Hanes parents, Garnets grandparents.

Around 1943 Mary Minerva Angeline (I called her Mammie) lived with us. She liked for me to comb her hair. She told me her hair had never been cut. When she sat on a chair it reached the floor. Most of the time she wore it in a ball type roll on the back of her head. I got a comb intangled in her hair while I was combing it. My mother thought she was going to cut the comb out. We continued to work and finally got the comb out of her hair. I don't remember combing her hair again after that.

- Story from Ovie Dell Simmons(Garnet and Ovie Dell would be first cousins, their mothers were sisters)