It’s not the best photo in the world but this is a photo of Uncle Dink Hanes. I heard Garnet speak of him many times. Some memories include: Uncle Charlie and Uncle Dink together weighed about 400 lbs, Garnet said he had seen them all go swimming and Uncle Charlie and Uncle Dink would jump in and about splash all the water out before anyone else got to swim. Uncle Dink and Uncle Millard were both blacksmiths and Uncle Dink could control a horse by himself because he was so large himself

Thomas Cornwell Family

You can see from the description that this is the Tom Cornwell family. Tom was a son of Francis and Elizabeth Hanes Cornwell and would be Garnet’s 1st cousin twice removed.

Vance Grandchildren

This is a photo of the most of the grandchildren of Robert Thomas and Ada Belle Brandon Vance.

Back Row

Josephine, Betty, Janie, Georgia, Sue(JR's wife), JR(Buck), ?

Front Row

Jack Duffy, Sue Glenn, Lawrence Gilbert, Faye, Faye's daughter



Georgia is the daughter of Carson and Edna Vance Hughes and the others are the children of Dewey and Zona Vance Frye. Edna and Zona had a brother Duffy, his daughter Carol Jean isn’t in the photo

This is Lloyd, Sellie and James Hughes, children of James and Matilda Holland Hughes. They are Georgia’s first cousins.

This is Vadie and her brothers and sisters and their mother at the grave of Riley at Rocky Mound, Tn. From L to R – John(Buster), Bessie, Sarah, Pernie, Vadie, Minerva and Silas” (Fleetie is not in photo). This photo was share with me by Ovie Allen, Pernie’s daughter.”

This photo brings to mind a lot of memories for me as I am sure it does for some of you. My grandfather grew tobacco. I never had to help prepare the plant bed but I pulled plants, set plants, and at the end of the year I helped strip the tobacco, my grandfather always insisted on tying my hands. A hand is basically a handful of tobacco, as you would get a strip the leaves from the stalk and had handful you would stop and use a leaf to tie the leaves together into a hand. My grandfather was very particular about the look of the hand so he always tied mine. This is the time of the year that those farmers still growing tobacco will cut it and put it in the barn to cure. If anyone else has memories of working in tobacco, especially with Garnet I would love to read them. -Cyndi

This is Robert (Bob) and Ada Belle Brandon Vance with their daughters Zona and Edna. They are Georgia’s grandparents. In the notes Buck shared with me he has this about Bob – “Bob Vance was named for his grandfathers, Thomas Vance and Robert Johns. He worked in timber and lumber most of his life and also farmed. He drove two and three team hitches in delivering lumber and logs. He worked for Walter Livingston and his operation on Long Creek and went with them to Westmoreland. He also worked in the planing mill in Westmoreland. While with the Livingstons on Long Creek he delivered the lumber to Hartsville. Several of the houses on Church Street were built with this lumber. In later life after, Ada died, he farmed with Duffy."