“WAAC, Wisconsin Girl, Teacher:” Putting a Near-Century of Life into Words

 As a member of the WAAC (Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps, later known simply as WAC), which formed early in the United States’ involvement in WWII, who had been a longtime resident of the north Bossier community of Plain Dealing, the 2017 obituary of Dorothy “Chris” Christoffersen Walker caught my eye. I had actually been scrolling through digitized historic newspapers looking for something else entirely, but I always want to know more about local WACs. The obituary comprehensively covered the scope of her 99 years, and it also had me wanting to know more.

Dorothy started her life as a small-town Wisconsin girl, the child of Norwegian immigrants. She was an honor roll student in Menasha High School, and received her college degree from Iowa State in 1939, where she won an award for her outstanding leadership in YWCA activities while in college. She stayed in Iowa and taught home economics and then went back to Wisconsin to teach the subject in the School of Vocational and Adult Education in Marshfield.

During her time in Marshfield, the local newspaper issues were peppered with household tips from Miss Christoffersen, under the byline, “Have you Heard? By D. Christofferson” or “Dorothy Christoffersen says.” Some pretty handy advice would follow: An empty baking powder can is an excellent device for chopping cooked potatoes into small pieces for frying or creaming. Or, A little salt sprinkled in the pan before putting in fat helps to prevent grease from sputtering when meat is fried. She also was in demand as a guest speaker or instructor in the community. This was wartime, and home economics, promoting how to run a household well and efficiently in a time of shortage and sacrifice, was a serious subject.

Dorothy, however, wanted to go afield and make an impact beyond the literal home front. On December 18th, 1942, in Milwaukee, Dorothy Christoffersen was sworn into the WAAC to serve as an officer. The Marshfield News-Herald shows that the Board of Vocational and Adult Education accepted her resignation on Dec 30th. They could not approve her initial request for a leave of absence because she’d not been in their employ for the required year. Amazingly, considering she appeared in the Marshfield newspaper over fifty times since the beginning of her tenure at the vocational school, she’d only been in the position for four months.

As it turned out, she would not be returning to Wisconsin. While serving as a WAAC, Dorothy, who went by Chris, met fellow officer Elmer Scovell Walker, a B17 bomber pilot. She married Capt. Walker, who went by Scovell, in Greensboro, North Carolina in August, 1944. Following the war, they settled in Scovell’s hometown of Plain Dealing, La. If the young couple had any thoughts of instead returning to Chris’ home state of Wisconsin, perhaps their wedding gift of the Square Deal Plantation in Plain Dealing, homesite of Scovell’s ancestor and “town father,” George O. Gilmer, persuaded the couple to head South.

A forester with a degree from LSU, Scovell Walker kept the plantation a certified tree farm, as well as worked for 30 years for the S.H. Bolinger lumber company. Mrs. Walker raised three children and taught school in Plain Dealing at Plain Dealing High School (in the junior high section) and Plain Dealing Academy. According to her obituary, “She was appreciated by countless former students and loved by family and friends.”

Though they cannot tell the whole story of a life, obituaries are an important source of information for our researchers of genealogy and local history, and the History Center collects all Bossier Parish-related obituaries and/or funeral notices that we find or receive. To donate to or research this collection, please visit or contact us. The History Center is located at 2206 Beckett St, Bossier City, LA. We are open M-Th 9-8, Fri 9-6, and Sat 9-5. Our phone number is (318) 746-7717 and our email is history-center@bossierlibrary.org

For other fun facts, photos, and videos, be sure to follow us @BPLHistoryCenter on FB, @bplhistorycenter on TikTok, and check out our blog http://bpl-hc.blogspot.com/. You may also check out the History and Genealogy page under Resources at www.bossierlibrary.org

UPHILL BOTH WAYS: GOING TO SCHOOL IN “THE BOTTOMS” OF WARDVIEW

 Have you ever heard the stories, or told them yourself to sleepy kids or grandkids reluctant to get on the school bus, about having to walk 20 miles to school uphill both ways? Some early residents of Wardview, a remote farming community as far northwest as you can go in Bossier Parish, Louisiana, actually had those stories beat. And, unlike “uphill both ways,” they weren’t telling tell tales, they were telling local history of life in “The Bottoms.”

Wardview is directly bordered by the Red River to the west, Arkansas to the north and Plain Dealing to its southeast. As described by local resident Jack Gore, who wrote a column for the former Plain Dealing Progress newspaper, the heart of the area was where Highway 537 met “the road to Arkansas” and “the road to the river.” With its proximity on the eastern side of Red River, the area was also known as “the River Bottoms” or just “the Bottoms.” The rich soil meant it was once a thriving a farming community for cotton and food crops. Nowadays, the community of Wardview lives largely in memories, newspaper clippings, scrapbooks, and oral histories, including several from the History Center collection.

Former Bossier Parish librarian and bookmobile driver, Billie Williams Stevens, who was born in 1928, told in one of these oral history interviews of the adventurous school bus rides when she was growing up in Wardview and attending school in Plain Dealing. At that time, Wardview consisted of a couple of stores, a cotton gin, and a church. “I remember one time we hit a bump and a nail hit my head,” Mrs. Stevens said, laughing, “and I bled for a long time. Of course, I went home and Mama poured some coal oil or turpentine on it, and I didn’t go to the doctor. We didn’t go to the doctor back then.”

“Of course, … we’ve always said about Huey Long, with him getting the schools consolidated from out there, we’ve always said that he should have done the roads first because sometimes we would have to get off of the bus and try to push the bus up some of those slick hills, and by the time we got to school we’d be late.”

Unbeknownst to young Billie, this experience would serve her well in her future library career. She was known to push the Bossier Parish Libraries bookmobile out of a ditch a time or two – or three! Even an uneventful normal ride lasted about an hour and fifteen minutes, one way, with 45 other bus mates. Of course, that was practically a shortcut compared to when there was flooding, a common occurrence in a place referred to as “the Bottoms.” Mrs. Stevens recalled,

“I don’t remember what year it was, I was in the first grade, and we had a flood, and you could not get the bus down to Wardview. The only way to catch the bus was to take a boat out to the hills and then catch the bus.” Mrs. Stevens laughed when the interviewer asked if the boat was a ferry. “No, no,” she replied. “Usually, it was just the road that was under water, so people who had boats ‘ferried’ across with their Jon boats (a small but stable flat-bottomed utility boat).”

Mrs. Virginia Horneman Allen who grew up in Wardview reminisced in her oral history interview with her two sisters,

“I had to get up early and catch the bus [to school in Plain Dealing] and walked a mile until I was in the 7th grade to catch the bus unless it rained and they’d take me, somebody would take me down on a horse…I had to wear overshoes all the time and

pull ‘em off and leave ‘em down at the house down at Uncle Will’s place where we caught the bus. [The bus] came around the river then. That’s where the road…”

Virginia’s sister, Mrs. Winona Horneman Authement, chimed in: “It was the only road, Old River.”

“And then,” interjected Mrs. Allen, “when I was in the 7th grade, Mr. Roy Bolinger [neighbor] was on the Police Jury or something like that and they built a road off of the road that went on to the Arkansas line to our house.” That way the bus could come right to their house on Arkansas Line Rd. when their father donated the land for it. Mrs. Allen no longer had to carry her overshoes anymore and they didn’t have to climb what all three sisters, Mrs. Allen, Mrs. Authement and Marihelen Horneman, remember as a “really high levee.”

For Wardview’s African American students, the schools were not yet consolidated until the 1950s. Students attended small, frame school houses like the two-room Still House School and the one-room Lake Port School in the Wardview area. Although they did not yet have to make the trek to Plain Dealing, their travels to school did not follow a simple, straightforward route, either. For example, to get to Still House school there was only one possible road to take - Log Ferry Road. This road crossed the “the Big Ditch” (created to alleviate flooding in the Bottoms), which was over a hundred feet wide in places. The Still House and Lakeview sports teams played against each other but did not have buses to travel to games. Athletes would have to walk several miles from one school to the other in the soft, damp ground of the Bottoms.

If you have any information, stories, or photos about Wardview, we would love to add material to the History Center’s research collection. Please come to the History Center to learn more about Wardview and other rural Bossier communities at 2206 Beckett St, Bossier City, LA. We are open M-Th 10-8, Fri 10-6, and Sat 10-5. Our phone number is (318) 746-7717 and our email is history-center@bossierlibrary.org

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Photo: “Lakeport School” two-room schoolhouse in Wardview, northwest Bossier Parish, in 1907. In this early photo, Lake Port school housed white students before they were bussed to Plain Dealing, La. to attend school in the new, brick Plain Dealing High School building that was completed in 1921. Lake Port then became a school for African-American students.

 Article by: Pam Carlisle

The Early History of Brushy

Old Brushy school c 1902
Levy Winham, teacher (back left row)

In 1949 articles on the early history of some of Bossier Parish's early communities written by local eighth-graders appeared in a "souvenir" edition of the Bossier Banner. The communities written about were Brushy, Red Land, Wardview, Chalybeate Springs, and Pleasant Hill. The following early history of Brushy was written by Jimmy Strayhan, a descendent of early settlers of that community.

"In the late 1850's, there came settlers to a small community in Bossier Parish, now known as Brushy. These settlers, driven from their homes in the East by the Yankees and the want of more land, came from Alabama, Georgia and North and South Carolina. These, the first settlers in Brushy, were the Keiths, Childresses, Dudneys, Odoms, Mitchells, Stanleys, Sullivans, Osborns, Strayhans, Dalrymples, Marxes and Abneys.

"School in this community was taught by a single teacher in a one-room log cabin. Mr. Joe Russell, the first teacher, was followed in succession by two women, Nona Herron and Eugenia Martin.

"All of these settlers were farmers, raising corn, peas, cotton and potatoes. Some of them were homesteaders and some bought their land for from fifty cents to a dollar an acre.

"The first and only church at that time was a large Baptist Church where the school had previously stood.

"The people in those days wore clothes they had carded, spun and woven themselves, and traveled by horse, wagon or ox cart. A buggy was rarely seen and a person who owned one was considered wealthy.

"For entertainment they had accordion and fiddle playings and dances such as the Virginia Reel. Another entertainment was hunting opossums and raccoons at night with dogs. They also hunted deer at night with 'fire pans.' A 'fire pan' had a long handle with a bowl at one end. They put rich pine knots in this bowl and lighted them to make a bright light. It was put over the shoulder and light was shown into the deer's eyes, momentarily paralyzing him with fear. This unlucky animal was an important item in the died [sic] of the settler.

"Most of the settlers got water from wells, but some used springs from which they carried water, sometimes a hundred yards. The nearest store was not in Brushy, but in Collinsburg, and was owned by a Mr. Sentell.

"There are several old home sites that have not yet grown up in bushes. Most of these old sites are marked by their surroundings of crepe myrtle and bois d'arc trees. Theer [sic] is one house still standing, the old Milling house, which is over one hundred years old."

New Brushy school c 1910s

The Brushy community was located three miles north of Alden bridge between Benton and Plain Dealing. In the early 20th century, when the Cotton Belt Railroad came through, residents of the Brushy community could catch the train from Alden Bridge or Hughes Spur into Bossier City or Shreveport.

At the Bossier Parish Libraries History Center, you can find information on pioneering families such as the Strayhans. According to records in our database, a James P. Strayhan was born in Bossier Parish in 1829 and lived as a farmer in the Brushy Community his entire life. In an oral history by Audrey Strayhan Boggs, she remembers growing up in Brushy and attending the one-room school in the early 1900s.

Visit the Bossier Parish Libraries History Center to discover more about the history of early communities and pioneering families in Bossier Parish. We are next to the Central Library branch at 2206 Beckett Street, Bossier City. Can't come in, call 318-746-7717 or email history-center@bossierlibrary.org with your request. For fun facts, photos, and videos, be sure to follow us @BPLHistoryCenter on FB, @bplhistorycenter on Tiktok.

By: Amy Robertson

 This Month In Bossier Parish History 

December: Through the Years

Dec. 3rd: National Roof Over Your Head

National Roof Over Your Head Day was created as a day to be thankful for what you have, starting with the roof over your head. There are many things that we have that we take for granted and do not stop to appreciate how fortunate we are for having them. 

1942: John D. Gleason Home Place, wood house with front porch and well to side, sloping roof.
"Just off Pleasant Hill Road"
1999.163.007 Davis Collection 

Strayhan home located in Brushey Community in Bossier Parish, Plain Dealing, LA. Home was built in 1800's. Eleven Strayhan children were born there.
2000.070.001A Coyle Collection

 

  

 Front of Heath cabin from an             angle.

 1997.0187.004 Upshaw Collection

 

Dec. 7, 1994: Jane Smith, former Principal of Haughton High, is named superintendent of the Bossier Parish School Board.  Smith became the first female to serve on the board .  Also, in 1994, she received the Bossier Parish and regional principal of the year award.

 

1992: Jane Smith, Principal

1992: Haughton High School Yearbook

Dec. 24 - 25: Merry Christmas from the Bossier Parish Libraries History Center!

A Blast From The Past::  Christmas Style. 

Please enjoy all the odds and ends of Christmas from our parish.  The photos are from our collection and the clippings are from various newspapers.

This Month In Bossier Parish History

                   June: Though the Years

Jun.2, 1960:  One of the oldest land-marks was being torn down in Plain Dealing, the two story home of  Mollie Banks Gray.

Mollie Banks Gray Hotel built about 1890.

Two story house in Plain Dealing, La with trees obscuring front.   Section on right projects forward.  Porch with gingerbread to the left.  Picket gate.

1997.062.028 Turnley Collection

Apr. 13, 1947: Mollie Banks Gray's 85th birthday. Includes J.T. Manry and unidentified friends

2003.026.020 Corley Collection

Jun. 1921: Weekly news form a 100 years ago

• Haughton Town Council was busy trying to get things in shape, visible results were repair of the well and work of the roads.

C.1900’s   This unique picture of Haughton, Louisiana, was taken in 1910, from atop the church bell tower.A wagon loaded with a bale of cotton proceeds to the railroad depot. the three-story building in the center is the Crume Hotel. At the far left is the store of T.H. Lawrence, which was the last surviving building, until 1997, when it was dismantled. the white house on the right would burn in the 1950's. Behind it is the Edwards' home, which would burn in the 1990's. Fire has been a strong enemy of Bossier Parish's early homes an towns.

000.003.033 Pattillo Collection

•  A fusillade  (series guns firing) of shots and ringing of the church bells gave warning of fire at the Boggs' home.

Benton Boggs Home.

Home of Benton Boggs, 1st mayor of Plain Dealing. Queen Anne-style house with elaborate gingerbread and unusual cap on chimney.

North West Corner of Palmetto Ave. and Perrin St. Plain Dealing, Louisiana. 

1997.062.072 Turnley Collection

• The Brushy boys challenge the Linton boys to a ball game, final score 62 to 2, in favor of Linton

Top Photo—Linton School: Emma Scarborough Lawson, Marie Lay Bumgardner, Belle Dalrymple Jenkins,  Anna Pilkinton Finnis (?),  Evie Thomas Richardson, Ida Jones,  Bob Bumgardner, Charlie Jones, Wilburn Dalrymple, Alton Dalrymple Smith, Ethel Dalrymple Ryan, Sadie Lay Dooley, Gladys Bumgardner Birdwell, Claudia Bumgardner Boylston,  Mary Belle Dalrymple Lane,  Ula May Denning Copeland, Robert Jones

1998.081.005     Young Collection

Bottom Photo—Old Brushy School

2001.025.026Rodgers Collection

• Lyles Wyche was employed at the Transcontinental Oil Company.

C.1910’s: Three boys (Harry, Lyles and J.W. Wyche) standing by their calf-drawn wagon.  A dog sits in the wagon.

Location, north Palmetto Ave looking north east from Cham Wyche house. 

1997.062.062      Turnley Collection

• William Bounds motored over to Minden.

These are the 5 sons of William Arthur Bounds and Nancy Elizabeth Watt. 

William Henry Bounds born 1890, James Murph Bounds born 1892, Walter Albert Bounds born 1893, Howard Franklin Bounds born 1985, and Chiga A. Bounds born 1897.

The boys had six sisters.

2012.059.049

June 17th: Happy National Mascot Day!

    Recognizing the luck they bring to teams, franchises, and more, National Mascot Day celebrates            these iconic figures on June 17th each year.

Airline Vikings: Percy Ashley
1978: Airline High School Yearbook

Benton Tigers (Beth Sirman and Kathy May)
1970: Benton High School Yearbook

Bossier Bearkats: Judy Nichols and Mary Compton
1958 Bossier High school Yearbook

 

Haughton Bucs: Charity Rankin
1992 Haughton High School Yearbook

Parkway Panthers: Cindi Allbritton and Cathi Disbrow
1973: Parkway High School Yearbook

Plain Dealing Lions: Connie Walker

1969 Plain Dealing Yearbook

Jun.30, 1929: A year after the original Cottage Grove Church was destroyed by fire, the first service in the new building was held on Jun.30, 1929.  The new building was made possible by the contributions of Mr. John H. Milling, family members and the community of Cottage Grove.  

Photograph of original church at Cottage Grove taken 6/20/1928. This church burned and was replaced with small brick church. Cemetery can be seen in background.

2001.052.083  Saucier Collection

C.1950’s-1960’s: Cottage Grove Memorial Presbyterian Church 

2003.026.027Q Corley Collection

This Month In Bossier Parish History

 May: Though the Years

May 5, 1921; Weekly news from 100 years ago.

•       Ben Keeth was an appreciated caller at the Bossier Banner office.

1906: J.P. Keeth General Merchandise Store. 

South Cotton Belt Street. 

"Cheap General Merchandise Store $1.00 cash for 75c "  

"Located in area of Otasco about 1906 Plain Dealing, La."
To right of Keeth store is the J.A. Mitchell Hardware store.
Left to right J.T. Manry, ? , Benton Boggs, J.T. Dudney, 

boy in front of stool is A.B. Turnley, 

boy with leg crossed is J.B. Turnely, 

unknown, Phill Haskins, A. Dudney.
1997.062.105 Turnley Collection

•  The switchboard at the local telephone exchange is now in charge of Mrs. Myrtis

C.1900’s:  Plain Dealing telephone operator for Plain  Dealing Telephone Company.  

Her name is Annie Bell.
1997.062.165 Turnley Collection

• Mr. Will Manry hurt his arm while cranking the motor of a six-cylinder automobile. 

 C.1920’s: Members of the Manry, Banks & Wheeler Families donated by Mary Wheeler Corley.

2003.026.011L  Corley Collection

May 18, 1984: Justin Wilson (1914-2001),  was a Southern American chef and humorist known for his brand of Cajun-inspired cuisine, humor and storytelling helps kick off the summer program.  While at the Bossier City/Central Branch, he read his book “Justin Wilson’s Cajun Fables” to the children and autographed books.   program at the library may 18 1984

Justin Wilson Program, Bossier Parish Libraries Central Branch, 1984

He was known for the catchphrase, "I gar-on-tee!" (I guarantee). 

May 18, 1984: Justin Wilson Program, Bossier Parish Libraries Central Branch

2020.001.0206

The Times

19 May 1984 

May 22, 1953:  Bossier City was the 10th largest city in the sate of Louisiana. 

The Shreveport Journal

22 May 1953

Aerial view of Bossier City, showing Red River, Texas Street bridge, railroad bridge, Barksdale Blvd in "old downtown" Bossier City, and Bossier High School. 

000.006.008

May 29, 1884: Bossier Parish Medical Society was organized

The Bossier Banner

29 May 1884

Dr. Elisha J. Hall of Bossier Parish.

2005.007.002Hall Collection

1920-1930’s: Mr. Cecil Kelly,  grandfather of Patrick Boggs, in his pharmacy at Stamps, Ark.  Mr. Kelly moved to Plain Dealing in 1931 and went into business with Dr. Bell.

1997.109.001 Boggs Collection

C.1900’s: Dr. Paul Lawrence is shown standing with his family in front of his south Haughton home. From left to right are T. Humphrey Lawrence, Mary Lawrence (sister to Paul), Dr. Paul Lawrence, Eva Lawrence, Myrtis Lawrence, Mary Haughton Lawrence (wife of Paul), Sudye Lawrence (youngest of nine children), and Lucille Lawrence.

1999.089.003 Cardin Collection

1915: Dr. Sidney Gardner when he practiced medicine.  Dr. Sidney Gardner was killed June 1917.

2000.071.089A     Watson Collection

This Month In Bossier Parish History

 March: Through the Years

Mar. 1, 1951:  Bear Facts!  Getting the inside scoop on Bossier High School students. 

Please enjoy some headlines from the Bossier High School's newspaper "Bear Facts" and photos from the 1950 Bossier High School Yearbook

 

                       

Bear Facts! Newspaper Staff

Top Photo = Editor-in-Chief: Franklin Fuller, Sports Editor: John Arnold, Advisor: Mrs. Billie  Nix,  Assistant Editor: Evelyn Baungardner

Bottom Photo = Group1: Mary Jane Ramsy, Ruth Pulwers, Jackie King, Gene Thomas, Jackie Bomar, Benny Ray White, Harold Hanson

Group 2: Donita Gothard, Franklin Fuller, Beverly Ratcliff (seated), Mary Louise Murphy

• Band picks Officers:  President, Harry Stephens; vice-president, Mary Jane Ramsey; secretary, Beverly Clark and band manager, Sammy Green

• Beverly Ratcliff and Eva Fullilove chosen models by Palais Royal

• Junior-Sophomore dance at City Hall was a big success

• The only seventh grader to make the “A” honor roll was: Jo Ann King

• Boys and Girls basketball teams making the school’s newspaper

 

Mar.16, 1972: The Bossier Parish School Board announced that Parkway and Airline High Schools were among the 34 high school around the nation to establish the Air Force Reserve Officers' Training (R.O.T.C.) program.  On Apr.27, 1972: with an unanimous vote form the Bossier Parish School Board, Bossier High School would also be awarded with the R.O.T.C program. 

1973: Parkway High School's R.O.T.C.

Top left: CMSgt. Eldon W. Pentecost
Top right: Col. Thomas E. Sledge Jr.
Row 1: Cadet 1st Lt. Armour, Cadet Smith, Cadet 2nd Lt. Wimberly, Cadet 2nd Lt. Owens, Cadet 2nd Lt. Bazo, Cadet 2nd Lt. Horn
Row 2: Cadet 2nd Lt. Toloso, Cadet 2nd lt. Rogers, Cadet 2nd Lt. Watherall, Cadet 1st Sgt Witt.

1973 Parkway High School Yearbook  FIC 2017.004

 

1973: Airline High School's 

Top Left: Ernest McNair
Top Right: Robert Murphy
First Row: Squadron Commander, S. Schavrien; “A” Flight commander, R. Spooner; “B” Flight Commander, B. Lunsford; “C” Flight Commander, R. Owens; “D” Flight commander, S. Lamette; “E” Flight Commander, G. McNair.
Second Row: Information Officer, M. Markow, Guidon Bearer, S. Winner; Personnel Office, R. Patton; Information Specialist, M. Markow.
Third Row: Material Specialist, B. Crawford; Administration Officer, D. Camp; Finance Officer, M. Gottardi; Operations Officer, R. Carter.
Fourth Row: Deputy Commander, J. Watson; Finance Specialist, D. Arrington; First SGT., G. McAllister; Operation Specialist , S. Phillips; Personnel specialist, B. Myers.
1973: Airline High School Yearbook  2009.021.034     

 

1973: Bossier High School's R.O.T.C

1973 Bossier High School R.O.T.C:  Flight B
Top Left: Col. William J. Cook
Top Right: CMSGT James W. Chewning
Row 1: Joe Heidecker, John Franklin.
Row 2: David Fontaine, Don Ryder, Darrell Thamisee, Johnny Jacobs, Carolyn Monroe
Row 3: Carter Watson, Jerry Robinson, Mitchell Goins, Franklin Strickland, Willie Walker
1973 Bossier High School Yearbook    2006.007.002   

Mar. 31, 1921: Weekly news from 100 years ago

· The school children enjoyed an Easter Egg Hunt

Red River Baptist Church Easter Egg Hunt.   (Older children/back row  L to R): Steve Maynor, Jim Oliver, Harriet Culbertson, Betty Vos, John Richard Vos, Billy Culbertson, Christine Crouch, Hazel Hamilton, Carol Jones, Audrey Jones, Betty Jean Oliver, Sue Scouze, Billy Lou Oliver, Evelyn Merritt. (Younger children/front row)  Pam Hollier, Babs Hollier, Martha Tyler, Judy Voss ? , ?, Johnny Sconze, Laverne Jones (turned around), Glenda Jones, Shelby Jones, Pee Wee Oliver,  the baby in front is probably Jo Ann Brighaupt.        1998.081.054 Young Collection

· The Gleason & Gleason store was broke into securing a supply of chewing and smoking tobacco 

1943: Gleason family—Peggy at age 23,  

Milton at age 26, Betty at age 3 and 

M.A. at age 1,  standing in

 front of white frame house

1999.163.002  Davis Collection

· W.E. Coyle cuts hand with an ax while chopping  wood

C.1910’s: Flint Morgan and W.E. Coyle Sr., in baseball uniforms with "B H" (Buckhouse) on them.     1998.059.003 Collins Collection

· A Rook Party was given by Mrs. J.S. Gray , Mrs. T.M. [Fannie Swindle] Gatlin won a box of Easter candy.

1916:: Fannie Swindle Gatlin in a bathing suit. 

Probably taken while on her honeymoon

1998.073.019  McLelland Collection 

· Mrs. J.T. [Eliza] Manry, stumbled and fell against the out-house breaking her arm 

J.T. Manry wife Eliza Banks Manry and three of their grandchildren- W.D., Jack, and Polly.      2018.0101.041 Corley Collection