Bama Planter

(Photos of Joe Arledge, husband of Lena Lucas. My aunt and uncle during the war and standing as a couple outside of the Wilson Home on Island Street near the library.)................................................................................................................................................................. My mother's sister, Nora Belle Barnett, married my uncle "Check" Carlee. They lived on a farm a few miles southeast of Montevallo in Chilton County. I grew up on a dairy farm that is now Orr Park, but my Uncle Check's farm was an entirely different matter. There were no boring fenced in fields on his farm for herds of milk cows to graze; on the contrary, my uncle's farm consisted of acres and acres of all sorts of vegetable rows, and not a barb wire fence in sight. My mother and I would visit for the day back in the 1960's. I remember picking huge strawberries and field peas ( shelling a bushel was guaranteed to turn your thumb...

It's 1850 and photography is a somewhat new invention. Carl Weber is a wealthy individual and his wife has just died. They never had their photograph taken together, so he has the body brought to the photographer and has her posed with the help of wires. She has been dead about four hours, according to most articles on the photograph.

My great great great grandmother in her bonnet. They are in Madison County, Alabama, at her log cabin. These are six of the seven girls of her son Hiram Melvin Jones : Alta, Louella, Pearl, Irene, Florence, and Emma. My great grandmother had moved to Birmingham and is not in the photo ( Exie ) Their mother was Hiram's wife Mary Lenora Kilpatric Jones.

1930's and 1940's photographs aren't so bad either !!!!