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)

Chandler

Chandler passed from Cub Scouts to Boy Scouts, after earning the highest badge, the Arrow of Light. Chandler plans to attain the rank of Eagle Scout--best wishes Chandler!

Willie and Vadie Caroline Howser Hanes (Papa & Mammie)

What time?

From Cyndi: Bonnie and Randy have reserved the church so we need to set a time. I am thinking around 3 or 4pm.