Cliff in his Navy uniform at the age of 17.
By Zelpha Williams-Smith
There has never been anything ordinary about Cliff Smith. When he was born on January 18, 1927, he weighed in at fifteen pounds, three ounces, and to this day continues to do everything in his own unusual and unique way.
1922 photograph of Anna Cahoon nee Hasenmyer, Carrie Smith nee Hasenmyer, Amelia Hasenmyer nee Kebortz, Amelia Wetherill nee Hasenmyer, Ida Parker nee Hasenmyer and Helen Held nee Parker.
by Helen Held nee Parker and Franklin T. Wike, Jr.
Helen Held nee Parker is in her late 80s. The photograph above shows her standing beside her mother, three of her mothers sisters and Helen’s grandmother, Amelia Hasenmyer nee Kebortz. This photograph was taken around 1921 or 1922 at her grandmother’s house.
You could tell that my one-room school was a backward school the first time you saw it. The back of the school was turned toward the road. The road used to be on the side of the school between the school and the creek. This gave us a little more playground. Crawford County has the lowest value land in the state of Indiana, but the trustee had the school built on less than one acre.
Jab Mayfield. It was taken the year she got married.
By: Joe MayfieldAll rights reserved
Her shoe size was 31/2, she was 5 ft. 4 in. tall, always a petite woman, her voice soft, but her heart was bigger than the sky, yet full of gold. Born November 28th, 1914, to W. W. Dowda (12/19/1898) and Pearl Ballard Dowda (10/4/1892) she enjoyed a full life, spending her 77 years as a protective sister to two younger brothers, a wife and partner to her husband for 55 years, and a wonderful mother for 46 years.
Dartha Peppers Williams
1882 to 1972 Paternal Grandmother
of Sandy Williams Driver
By: Sandy Williams Driver
“Grandma’s”
Left to Right, Top to Bottom:
Frances Hinkelbein Batho, Jane Crouch, Bob Thayer, Jim Thayer, May Crouch, Gertrude Batho, Grandma Hinkelbein, Edna Thayer, and Ray Thayer.
As Told by Frances Hinkelbein Batho Seiley
to Kathryn Seiley
This was written by an 83-year-old. The last line says it all.
I’m reading more and dusting less.
I’m sitting in the yard and admiring the view without fussing about the weeds in the garden.
I’m spending more time with my family and friends and less time working. Whenever possible, life should be a pattern of experiences to savor, not to endure.
How many of us can say we remember the Titanic, two World Wars, Prohibition, hobble skirts and seventeen U.S. Presidents? At the age of 98, Florence Agnes Smith Bailey Mitter is one of the few who can. A true all-American in every sense of the term, Florence Mitter witnessed almost the entire 20th century and grew up while her country did. And now, in the 21st century, we are most fortunate to hear her story.
BY ZELPHA WILLIAMS-SMITH
The men always ate at the table first. Women and children came last. This is the way it was in my family. Back then, in the 1930s, it sometimes seemed like no one in Alabama ever had enough to eat. My papa owned lots of land in Eclectic and grew wide rows of white cotton, but he barely scratched out a living. I was the 8th child out of ten. My oldest sister was already 24 when I was born. I remember thinking of her as my other mother.
On January 31, 1936, the Green Hornet radio program aired on WXYZ in Detroit, Michigan. Al Hodge played the part of the Green Hornet from 1936 through January of 1943. The program was created by George W. Trendle, the same man associated with the creation of the Lone Ranger radio show.