Sunday, August 24, 2014

Hot Week End

 Greta was going shopping she told her Mom.  Baby's name is Helsa!  She could not locate her good sunglasses and had to wear next best.
 Greta got a hair cut.  Erin said Greg would be mad.  He was asleep as this is his working weekend.  Greta has green eyes.
 Clayton got a hair cut too.  Below are pictures of Falling Water Falls, northern Pope County.  It the rocks could talk the stories they would tell!
 Laura's bunch went to Falling Water.  Granny Renfroe was born within a rock's throw of this falls.
 Girls wanted to jump off the Falls like Uncle Walter said he did when he was young, but the water was really low.
 It is always cooler at Falling Water.
 Some more kids at Falling Water.
 Mema at Falling Water.  This is not Uncle Walter, I forget who Larry said it was.
 Bunch of the girl's relatives at Falling Water--I think it was 1921.  (from memory which is not good).  The second girl from the left is Leon Garrison's Mom.  She was Larry's Grandpa Jonathan Garrison's sister.  She had Leon not married.  Her feller (Melvin Green) moved to OK and in those days--about 1925--she wrote to him telling about her expecting their child...but his Momma got the letters and destroyed them.  Olive Garrison died of child bed fever about a week after Leon was born.  Melvin heard about the child but when he got to the hills of Arkansas, Leon's Grandmother Garrison met him with the door cracked and a shot gun protruding.  Leon did not meet his father until he was grown.  Grandma and Grandpa Garrison raised him as their own giving him all the love they had.  Leon grew to be a fine man.

2 comments:

Sister--Helen said...

The woman looked some what like Larry's Mom....and Laura of course

Galla Creek said...

Bottom photo has Olive, second from left. Photo above it is Larry's Mom 1951.