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Same bungalow, same column, 91 years later. https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/evans-140_0007_2.jpgEvans 140_0007_2Sara on the bungalow porch, circa 1924. Probably being held by her grandmother, Bama. 2015-04-06T15:45:43+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2015/03/16/miss-lizzies-library/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/p1000523.jpgP1000523Lallah Walker Lewis murals, south wall. https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/p1000521.jpgP1000521Lallah Walker Lewis murals, north wall. https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/img504.jpgimg504Cotesworth Library around 1920https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/img_3546.jpgIMG_3546Cotesworth Library todayhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/img515.jpgimg515A laughing Lizzie George Henderson, middle front row, on the steps of her father's home, Cotesworth. Pictures of Miss Lizzie smiling are very rare. https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/img431.jpgimg431Lizzie George Henderson with her 1912 Detroit Electric car. The original east facade of the library is seen behind her. https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/evans-album-1_0003.jpgEvans Album 1_0003https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/evans-album-11_0003.jpgEvans Album 11_0003Jessie West Evans with her first daughter, Jessie ("Tiny), on the steps of the Greenwood Leflore Public Library.https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/img_0010.jpgIMG_0010Margaret Sproles Chavis Alexander ("Bigma"), Theodorene Chavis West ("Bama"), Roy Stott, Jr. ("Buddy") and Rena Stott ("Rawa"). https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/img_0009.jpgIMG_00092018-07-07T01:19:42+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2015/03/02/crisco-snow/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/evans-84_0007.jpgEvans 84_0007Three of Howard's men at the Buckeye, circa 1920. Names unknown. https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/evans-120_0013.jpgEvans 120_0013The Buckeye house, Sara's first home. Now located at 1216 Strong Avenue. https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/evans-140_0004.jpgEvans 140_0004Buckeye employees enjoying the snow; names unknown. https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/evans-87_0008.jpgEvans 87_0008Mamie and Tiny in the Buckeye snow.https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/evans-album-42_00041.jpgEvans Album 42_00042017-02-23T00:06:59+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2015/01/12/the-beginning-of-the-end-and-the-end-of-the-beginning/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/img_0003.jpgIMG_0003https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/photo-25.jpgphoto-252015-03-01T14:29:25+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2014/12/05/thanks-a-lot-mr-martin/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/img524.jpgimg524One of Sara's annual Band Festival shots for the Commercial Appeal2014-12-06T13:33:22+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2014/10/03/are-you-ready/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/img086.jpgimg0862014-10-09T11:43:12+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2014/06/28/bungalow-dreams/2015-10-06T02:32:41+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2013/06/28/the-man-i-never-knew/2014-06-27T22:00:08+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2014/04/01/still-fooling-around/2014-04-01T17:16:41+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2014/02/20/thunderbird/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/200px-45th_infantry_insignia_thunderbird.png200px-45th_Infantry_insignia_(thunderbird)https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/img915.jpgimg915https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/img901.jpgimg901Russell at one of WWII training camps before deployment to Africa and Europe2014-02-24T16:12:05+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2014/02/14/heart-of-my-heart/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/img177.jpgimg177Sara's Commercial Appeal photo and article, probably around 1960.2014-02-19T18:07:32+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2014/02/13/snow-day/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/img082.jpgimg082Cathy, me, ?, Martha Gwin, ?, Chris Eidman in front of the Gwin's house at 407 East Adamshttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/img007.jpgimg007409 East Adams in the 1950s2015-03-01T13:23:34+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2013/11/11/greatest-generation/2013-11-11T16:58:40+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2013/09/16/from-durant-to-the-delta/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/img861.jpgimg861Olive West Stott ("Big") by old Greenwood Leflore Hospitalhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/img198.jpgimg198https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/img0121.jpgimg012https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/img012.jpgimg012Jessie West, circa 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County Court House and Confederate Monument. 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rally2012-02-16T19:32:20+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2012/02/15/sara-criss-civil-rights-memoir-70-sovereignty-and-singers/2012-02-10T21:16:29+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2012/02/14/sara-criss-civil-rights-memoir-68-the-league/2012-02-10T21:05:41+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2012/02/13/sara-criss-civil-rights-memoir-68-unforeseen-consequences/2012-02-10T13:32:56+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2012/02/12/sara-criss-civil-rights-memoir-67-an-imperfect-system/2012-02-09T23:57:12+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2012/02/11/sara-criss-civil-rights-memoir-66-voting-rights-act/2012-02-11T14:59:49+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2012/02/10/sara-criss-civil-rights-memoir-65-dueling-democrats/2012-02-08T23:17:27+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2012/02/09/sara-criss-civil-rights-memoir-64-greyhound-grievances/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/img047.jpgimg047Greenwood's Greyhound Bus Station, photo by Sara 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Daily News article from 1969https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/img242.jpgimg242Leflore Theatre, 1940s2012-01-23T13:18:50+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2012/01/21/sara-criss-civil-rights-memoir-45-letter-to-ohio/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/img241.jpgimg241Sara's unmailed letter to Marge Doyle, 19642012-01-18T22:59:26+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2012/01/20/sara-criss-civil-rights-memoir-44-change-in-the-wind/2012-01-18T15:52:49+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2012/01/19/sara-criss-civil-rights-memoir-44-freedom-schools/2012-01-18T12:25:38+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2012/01/18/sara-criss-civil-rights-memoir-43-the-long-hot-summer-begins/2012-01-17T22:03:12+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2012/01/17/sara-criss-civil-rights-memoir-42/2012-01-17T22:11:48+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2012/01/16/sara-criss-civil-rights-memoir-41-preaching-and-picketing/2014-08-16T23:06:53+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2012/01/15/sara-criss-civil-rights-memoir-40-itta-bena-action/2012-01-13T00:37:38+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2012/01/14/sara-criss-civil-rights-memoir-39-a-year-to-remember/2012-01-15T11:32:46+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2012/01/13/sara-criss-civil-rights-memoir-38-pleas-from-prison/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/byron_de_la_beckwith.jpgByron_De_La_BeckwithDe La Beckwith, probably in the 1970s2012-01-11T18:11:38+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2012/01/12/sara-criss-civil-rights-memoir-37-threats/2012-01-11T13:24:35+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2012/01/11/sara-criss-civil-rights-memoir-36-welcome-home/2012-01-11T14:14:19+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2012/01/10/sara-criss-civil-rights-memoir-35-lost-opportunity/2012-01-11T15:19:44+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2012/01/09/sara-criss-civil-rights-memoir-34-house-of-horrors/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/img749.jpgimg749The Yerger House, Greenwood Ms, home of Byron De La Beckwith, shortly before its 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140_0005Christmas morning on Strong Avenue, probably 1924; Mamie, Jessie, Tiny, Bama and Sara2011-12-26T02:11:43+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/12/24/sara-criss-civil-rights-memoir-20-tensions-rising/2011-12-22T23:49:03+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/12/23/sara-criss-civil-rights-memoir-19-demonstrators-and-dogs/2011-12-22T20:18:52+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/12/22/sara-criss-civil-rights-memoir-17-the-spin-game/2011-12-21T13:06:05+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/12/20/sara-criss-civil-rights-memoir-16-watching-her-world-shift/2011-12-19T16:27:17+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/12/21/sara-criss-civil-rights-memoir-17-man-on-the-street/2011-12-19T16:26:39+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/12/19/sara-criss-civil-rights-memoir-15-voices-of-reason/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/img053.jpgimg053Mayor Charles Sampson, Fire Chief Evans and Police Chief Curtis Lary as photographed by Sara for the Commercial Appeal2014-02-26T20:12:56+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/12/16/sara-criss-civil-rights-memoir-12-days-of-demonstrations/2011-12-14T18:02:00+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/12/18/sara-criss-civil-rights-memoirs-14-young-man-on-the-rise/2011-12-14T18:00:21+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/12/17/sara-criss-civil-rights-memoirs-12-foot-in-mouth/2011-12-14T17:53:15+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/12/15/sara-criss-civil-rights-memoir-11-on-the-map/2011-12-12T14:54:42+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/12/14/sara-criss-civil-rights-memoir-10-trouble-on-our-doorstep/2011-12-14T17:46:16+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/12/09/sara-criss-civil-rights-memoir-5/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/img232.jpgimg2322011-12-09T11:53:57+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/12/13/sara-criss-civil-rights-memoir-9/2011-12-08T01:12:28+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/12/12/sara-criss-civil-rights-memoir-8-nelson-benton-and-cbs-news/2011-12-07T19:44:00+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/12/11/sara-criss-civil-rights-memoir-6-commodities-controversy/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/img231.jpgimg231Dick Gregory heading for Leflore County Court House, 1963, photograph by Sara Criss2011-12-07T19:25:13+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/12/08/sara-criss-civil-rights-memoir-4/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/c1.jpgc1Citizens' Council newspaperhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/images.jpegimagesByron De La Beckwith2011-12-07T14:06:21+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/12/07/sara-criss-civil-rights-memoir-3/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/white_citizens_council.jpgWhite_Citizens_Council2011-12-07T03:01:45+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/12/05/sara-criss-civil-rights-memoirs-1/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/p_defendant1.jpgp_defendant1Bryant Store, Money, late 1950shttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/greenwood039.jpgGreenwood039Leflore County Court House, Greenwood, mid-1950s2011-12-06T23:37:27+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/12/06/sara-criss-civil-rights-memoir-2/2011-12-06T23:36:35+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/12/10/sara-criss-civil-rights-memoir-6/2011-12-06T23:34:15+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/12/04/sara-criss-civil-rights-memoirs/2015-03-01T12:38:39+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/12/01/trying-times/2011-12-01T16:04:39+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/11/30/epilogue/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/img229.jpgimg229https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/img228.jpgimg2282011-12-01T22:56:39+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/11/29/30/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/img015.jpgimg0152011-11-30T17:54:24+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/11/28/sugar-and-santa/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/img202.jpgimg202https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/img226.jpgimg226https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/img225.jpgimg2252011-11-28T17:31:03+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/11/26/the-best-night-of-the-year/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/img2131.jpgimg213Susan, Tricia and Uncle Royhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/img203.jpgimg203Howard, Russell and Son, armed with cameras on Christmas Evehttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/img222.jpgimg222Sara, Tiny, Son, Mamie and Triciahttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/img221.jpgimg221All of our generation, plus one: Susan, Pam, Trey, me, David, Cathy, Beth, Melanie and Bill, Christmas Eve 1970https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/img220.jpgimg220Sara, Melanie, Rena Roach, Mamie, Christmas Eve circa 1967https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/img219.jpgimg219Mamie, B.J. and Tiny, Christmas Eve at Sara's househttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/img2181.jpgimg218Jessie and Cathy, Christmas Eve circa 1966https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/img2171.jpgimg217Georgia and me, in our usual corner, circa 1964https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/img2161.jpgimg216Melanie and Susan, Christmas Eve circa 19632014-11-13T15:13:14+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/11/25/turkey-trot/2011-11-25T20:15:06+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/11/22/sara-christmas/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/img223.jpgimg223An early version of Sara's famous living room Santahttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/img218.jpgimg218https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/img217.jpgimg217https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/img216.jpgimg216https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/img214.jpgimg214Christmas Eve presents waiting to be unwrappedhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/img213.jpgimg213https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/img212.jpgimg212409 East Adams, a rare Christmas snow, with Sara's handmade door decoration2014-02-19T18:51:01+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/11/21/turkey-sabbatical/2014-02-19T22:45:53+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/11/20/papa-pickles-part-ii/2011-11-28T17:37:27+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/11/19/papa-pickles/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/img209.jpgimg209Man of the househttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/img208.jpgimg208Russell and Tricia with the girls, probably 1956https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/img207.jpgimg207Russell being the good sport for some Heinz promotion.2011-11-20T03:55:12+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/11/18/mamie-and-howard/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/img2041.jpgimg204Mamie and Jessie, yet another Christmas Evehttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/img205.jpgimg205Howard, Gray and B.J. https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/img206.jpgimg206Melanie, Cathy and Mamie, Christmas circa 19672011-11-18T11:26:31+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/11/17/2263/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/evans-140_0002.jpgEvans 140_0002Jessie and Sara, about 1923https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/img2012.jpgimg201Mamie and Tricia look on as Jessie has a word with Santa Claus, Christmas Eve.https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/img200.jpgimg200Jessie at one of Sara's Christmas Eve parties2011-11-17T19:16:43+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/11/16/2260/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/img705.jpgimg705Big and Uncle Roy, young and happy. https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/img199.jpgimg199Roy Stott's retirement party, late 1950s. Big and Uncle Roy are at the far right; Sara is in the foreground, back to camera (for once).https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/img198.jpgimg198Roy and Olive West Stott ("Big and Uncle Roy"), 50th Wedding Anniversary2012-02-13T02:10:08+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/11/15/wishes-and-weddings/2011-11-15T03:38:07+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/11/14/2247/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/img197.jpgimg1972011-11-14T00:02:23+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/11/12/dolls-by-the-dozens/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/img189.jpgimg1892011-11-13T17:39:19+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/11/13/2233/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/img194.jpgimg194The Teamhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/img1951.jpgimg195https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/img196.jpgimg1962011-11-13T17:46:28+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/11/10/2188/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/img1881.jpgimg188https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/img187.jpgimg187https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/img186.jpgimg186Sara in middle row, second from left.2011-11-11T04:58:51+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/11/11/hello-dolly/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/img622.jpgimg622Sara and Liz Williams at that first Carrollton crafts show, 1975https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/img1911.jpgimg191https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/img192.jpgimg192One of Sara's original dolls2011-11-09T16:12:45+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/11/08/lets-have-a-parade/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/img518.jpgimg518https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/img526.jpgimg526https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/img528.jpgimg5282012-12-02T17:17:13+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/11/09/2187/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/img185.jpgimg185Davis School fire, December 1980https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/img513.jpgimg5131971 fire that destroyed several buildings at Market and Howard2011-11-07T23:53:41+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/11/07/high-water-and-low-bridges/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/img236.jpgimg236https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/img259.jpgimg259https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/img248.jpgimg248https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/img238.jpgimg2382011-11-07T16:41:09+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/11/06/blown-away/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/img2011.jpgimg201Letter of thanks to Sara from Senator James Eastlandhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/img204.jpgimg204Teletype copy for a tornado-related storyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/img201.jpgimg201https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/img195.jpgimg195https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/img190.jpgimg190https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/img191.jpgimg1912011-11-07T12:53:22+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/11/05/front-page/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/img188.jpgimg188One of Sara's earliest murder trialshttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/img136.jpgimg1362011-11-02T14:30:16+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/11/04/who-needs-espn/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/img184.jpgimg1841971 Greenwood Bulldogshttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/img183.jpgimg183https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/img181.jpgimg181A Commercial Appeal high school press pass, circa 19652011-11-01T22:40:14+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/11/03/sorority-sisters/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/unknown.jpegUnknownhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/chi_omega_crest.jpgChi_omega_cresthttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/7862476.jpg78624762014-10-31T20:45:24+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/11/02/high-society/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/220px-carterjr101.jpg220px-Carterjr101Hodding Carter, editor of the Delta Democrat Timeshttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/img501.jpgimg501https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/img500.jpgimg5002011-11-01T21:02:29+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/11/01/ink-in-our-veins/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/img037.jpgimg037Byron De La Beckwith at a Klan rally near Greenwood. This is one of Sara's photos.2011-11-01T20:52:30+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/10/31/teletypes-and-tyrants/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/img274.jpgimg274A typical teletype pagehttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/img100.jpgimg100Cathy and an early kitchen teletypehttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/img284.jpgimg284The Commercial Appeal gang. Once again, Sara is smack in the middle.2011-10-31T01:44:43+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/10/30/2077/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/img1112.jpgimg111One of Sara's "Our Home Town" photoshttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/img149.jpgimg149Unidentified congressmen with Elizabeth Saunders, Kat Williams and J.B. Williams at Cotesworth2011-10-30T00:51:44+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/10/28/hooray-for-hollywood/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/img456.jpgimg456One of several articles which Sara wrote on "The Reivers"https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/220px-homefromthehillpost.jpg220px-Homefromthehillposthttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/220px-reiversposter.jpg220px-Reiversposterhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/img167.jpgimg167George Hamilton in Greenwoodhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/img165.jpgimg165Robert Mitchum in "Home from the Hill"2011-10-29T01:01:45+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/10/29/quint-quandry/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/images2.jpegimagesThese are the Dionne Quintuplets. They were not born in Memphis.2011-10-28T15:52:03+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/10/27/2043/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/img163.jpgimg163Commercial Appeal Tri-State correspondents, late 1950s. How did Sara always wind up in the middle?2011-10-27T17:33:10+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/10/26/learning-the-ropes/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/838t.jpg838tGovernor J.P.Colemanhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/img160.jpgimg160Sara in her early newspaper dayshttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/img_7748.jpgIMG_7748Leflore County Court House. Photo courtesy of Mary Rose Carter2011-10-26T16:15:15+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/10/25/2006/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/img060.jpgimg060Susan and Russell, no doubt up to no goodhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/img155.jpgimg155Bunny Hopping through 2nd grade, Miss Eubanks' class.https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/img156.jpgimg156https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/img1421.jpgimg142Melanie, me, Cathy, in Ohio, 1957https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/img146.jpgimg146Gray, Tricia and David, November 1969https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/img145.jpgimg145Russell and Claude, Christmas Eve, probably 1957https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/img1441.jpgimg144The Broadwater Beach train, Biloxihttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/img139.jpgimg139Jessie and Treyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/img140.jpgimg140Jessie and Susanhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/img143.jpgimg143Howard Bartling and Russell, 1957, in Columbus, Ohio2011-10-30T01:55:00+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/10/24/1995/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/img147.jpgimg147Who needs cats?https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/img0711.jpgimg071A noble dog.https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/img127.jpgimg127Cathy and me with Brownie, the "Brown Bebe"https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/img126.jpgimg126Brownie2011-10-24T12:36:51+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/10/23/give-my-regards-to-east-adams/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/img122.jpgimg122Our star, Montine Younghttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/img121.jpgimg121Show Stopper Jeanne Younghttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/img118.jpgimg118Patricia Murphy, AKA The Yellow Rose of Texashttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/img124.jpgimg124Cathy and Melaniehttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/img125.jpgimg125Standing Room Only. Brownie McLean is in the foreground.https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/img117.jpgimg117Planning for the big back yard show2011-10-26T02:19:25+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/10/22/lifes-a-party/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/img114.jpgimg114One of Sara's bunny cakeshttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/img115.jpgimg115The infamous American Legion Birthday party, 1960.https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/img084.jpgimg084Making money on East Adamshttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/img102.jpgimg102A back porch Halloween party, probably 1960 2011-10-23T02:41:19+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/10/21/big-back-yard/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/img003.jpgimg003Tricia Evans Ellington, everyone's favorite aunt.https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/img113.jpgimg113Russell receiving some sort of treasure, Cathy in the sandboxhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/img1111.jpgimg111Our first playhousehttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/img1122.jpgimg112https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/img1121.jpgimg112https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/img112.jpgimg112https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/images1.jpegimageshttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/img111.jpgimg1112011-10-19T16:45:24+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/10/19/1916/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/img086.jpgimg086No one was safe when Sara was loose with her camera.https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/img071.jpgimg071When no one else would pose, there was always Browniehttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/img069.jpgimg069One of my more cooperative dayshttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/img070.jpgimg070One of thousands of portraits. How in the world did Sara get us to hold hands?https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/140.jpg140A Kodak Duraflex camerahttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/img072.jpgimg072Sara's darkroom enlarger instructions2011-10-19T12:37:03+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/10/20/1941/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/img097.jpgimg097Russell and Cathy with the first TV on the right.https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/250px-mimeograph.png250px-Mimeographhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/220px-pinkyleeladyofburlesque.jpg220px-PinkyLeeLadyofBurlesquePinkie Leehttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/200px-buffalo_bob_smith_and_howdy_doody.jpg200px-Buffalo_Bob_Smith_and_Howdy_DoodyBuffalo Bob Smith and Howdy Doodyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/images.jpegimagesMiss Frances and the Ding Dong School2015-06-11T14:19:46+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/10/18/sara-criss-cub-reporter/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/img068.jpgimg068Me and Kelly Blackhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/img067.jpgimg067Commercial Appeal Tri-State Correspondents on the roof of the Peabody Hotel, late 1950s. Sara is in the middle, light dress.2011-10-18T22:30:43+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/10/17/sinner-man/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/img059.jpgimg059Cathy blesses Brownie following the burial of young Peter. https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/img061.jpgimg061Cathy serving as a pall bearer for Peter the Turtlehttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/img064.jpgimg064Will Henry, our favorite sinner2011-10-17T22:42:14+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/10/12/newspaperwoman/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/img066.jpgimg066An unmailed letter found in Sara's things after she diedhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/img015.jpgimg015Sara in her early days on East Adamshttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/img013.jpgimg013Sara's first newspaper article in the Jackson Daily News.2011-10-15T20:53:51+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/10/16/georgia-and-james/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/img058.jpgimg058Georgiahttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/img027.jpgimg027Georgia and her family, 19712011-10-15T03:29:26+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/10/15/porge/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/img063.jpgimg063Georgia in the Criss kitchenhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/img026.jpgimg026Georgia and me, 1969https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/img025.jpgimg025Christmas Eve, probably 1962https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/img023.jpgimg023Georgia and me, probably 19582011-10-17T13:32:29+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/10/14/sibling-rivalry/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/img020.jpgimg020Better days.https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/img024.jpgimg024Cathy, Georgia and me, 1955https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/img022.jpgimg022Do we really have to keep her?https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/img021.jpgimg021Please don't leave me in here with my sister. 2011-10-15T03:19:29+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/10/13/1839/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/img018.jpgimg018Cathy and her playmatehttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/img016.jpgimg016Sara and me, Spring 19542011-10-13T12:22:48+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/10/11/living-life-on-her-own-terms/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/img014.jpgimg014Jessie on her way to the Red Cross officehttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/img012.jpgimg012Jessie before her marriage, about 1915https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/d7688ac7ff71a2b1201911e6ee06dbd5.jpegd7688ac7ff71a2b1201911e6ee06dbd5Britling's Cafeteria, downtown Memphis2011-10-10T18:03:43+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/10/10/diets-and-dolls/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/gerbersdeptstore-1.jpgGerber'sDeptStore-1Gerber's Department Store, Memphis, 1950shttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/img011.jpgimg011Cathy with Monicahttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/img010.jpgimg010Jessie in the 1950s. She really wasn't this serious. https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/img009.jpgimg009Sara hanging clothes behind the East Adams house. No shade in sight. https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/img008.jpgimg008Patricia Evans, Greenwood's Ambassador to the World, 19522011-10-10T16:20:59+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/10/09/1797/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/img_0025.jpgIMG_0025https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/img_0035.jpgIMG_00352011-10-08T15:59:24+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/10/08/baby-boomer/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/img007.jpgimg007https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/img_0029.jpgIMG_0029Cathy Olivia Criss2011-10-07T16:58:05+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/05/21/sonny-boy-sissies-and-sweet-tooths/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/evans-album-50_0002.jpgEvans Album 50_0002Jessie in her Memphis days at Macon and Andrews Business College, circa 1913https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/evans-105_0017.jpgEvans 105_0017Uncle Roy and Buddyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/img_0352.jpgIMG_0352Buddy with Rawa, Tiny, Mamie and Sarahttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/evans-120_0018.jpgEvans 120_0018Mary and Sara on the swingshttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/unknown-2.jpegUnknown-2https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/il_570xn.jpgil_570xNhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/victortalkinglogo.jpgVictorTalkingLogo2011-10-07T16:35:52+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/10/07/115-east-washington-empties/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/img006.jpgimg006Tricia and Son, mid-1940s. https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/img005.jpgimg005The Stott House at Washington and Walthall2011-10-07T01:56:41+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/10/06/becoming-a-family/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/img_7514.jpgIMG_7514Greenwood Leflore Library, where Sara's brief career as a librarian ran its course in 1950.The east wing of the building would not have been there then. https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/img_7907.jpgIMG_7907Dr. John Lucas' office, where Sara and Russell got some life-changing good news. Photo courtesy of Mary Rose Carter.https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/img002.jpgimg002"I'm going to be a WHAT?"2011-10-05T13:15:15+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/10/04/1749/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/img998.jpgimg998Russell on the back porch2014-02-07T18:56:46+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/10/05/granny/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/img999.jpgimg999Tiny and Jessie at Sara's house, likely on a Christmas Eve in the 1960s. https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/img997.jpgimg997Jessie West Evans2011-10-04T19:26:58+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/10/03/home/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/img985.jpgimg985Russell and Sara in their kitchen, 409 East Adams.https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/img989.jpgimg989409 East Adams, 19512011-10-11T02:12:57+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/10/02/dreamin/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/img984.jpgimg984Wedding presents in the little Walthall living room.https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/img983.jpgimg983208 Walthall Street, with the Stott house in the background.2011-10-02T10:22:47+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/09/30/1711/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/img982.jpgimg982Tricia and Son (Howard Evans Jr.)https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/img979.jpgimg979Botts Blackstone and Sara in the Chamber of Commerce office.https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/img980.jpgimg980Sara and her assistant, Tricia, on the front steps of City Hall. Sara would pay her 50 cents to help put out newsletters. 2011-10-03T20:20:01+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/10/01/beating-the-bond-drum-with-botts/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/img528.jpgimg528One of many articles Sara wrote for the Commercial Appeal. She made sure there was an article and at least one photograph from each year's Delta Band Festival. https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/greenwood117.jpgGreenwood117Greenwood Leflore Hospital, a 1952 success for Botts and Sara.https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/img981.jpgimg981Billy Blackstone and Douglas Lore helping Sara with the Bestform promotion campaign, 1948.2011-09-28T16:45:48+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/09/29/on-the-road-again/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/img971.jpgimg971Mamie (Mary Olive Evans Bartling), late 1940s.https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/img973.jpgimg973Dr. Harold Crosbyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/img975.jpgimg975Captain Crosby and Russellhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/img974.jpgimg974Joe Labello and Russell, 45th Division, somewhere in Italy.https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/img9161.jpgimg916Joe Labello and Russell, 45th Division buddies. 2011-09-28T14:03:08+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/09/28/chicago/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/512vbi5m8il.jpg512Vbi5m8ILhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/aragon02.jpgaragon02The Aragon ballroom dance floorhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/0521.jpg0521Ad for the second Palmer Househttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/img972.jpgimg972G.D., Birch and Helen Criss, 1943. 2011-09-27T18:37:22+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/09/27/the-joy-of-cooking-walthall-style/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/img966.jpgimg966Sara in the Walthall Street apartment.https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/img970.jpgimg970Russell with one of his Heinz displays.2011-10-03T20:19:26+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/09/26/truly/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/img968.jpgimg968Peabody Roof, January 24, 1947.https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/img965.jpgimg965Wedding presents displayed in Walthall Street apartment.https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/img9671.jpgimg967https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/img967.jpgimg967https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/img964.jpgimg964Sara and Russell's first apartment, 208 Walthall Street. 2011-09-26T02:50:05+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/09/25/the-best-years-of-our-lives/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/mv5bnzmyodm1mje2m15bml5banbnxkftztywodm2nzm5-_v1.jpgMV5BNzMyODM1MjE2M15BMl5BanBnXkFtZTYwODM2NzM5._V1https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/images.jpegimagesA big part of life in the Criss familyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/img962.jpgimg962https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/img963.jpgimg963Sara and Russell, probably on the day he returned to Greenwood from the army.2011-09-24T01:53:54+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/09/22/radio-days/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/nmah2004-01539_225px.jpgNMAH2004-01539_225pxhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/00-27439.jpg00-27439https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/img955.jpgimg955John and Roy Stott, 1944. Uncle Roy is seated in his legendary "big chair" in the Stott's living room. https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/img957.jpgimg957Buddy (Roy Stott, Jr.) and Rawa (Rena Stott Roach), 19442011-09-21T20:56:57+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/09/24/tomorrow-when-the-world-is-free/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/ve460_1631804c.jpgve460_1631804chttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/img961.jpgimg961Sara on Easter, 1944https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/img960.jpgimg9602011-09-21T19:11:26+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/09/23/fdr/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/img9561.jpgimg956"Big" (Olive West Stott), in front of the old Greenwood Leflore Hospital, 1940s.https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/img958.jpgimg958https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/fdrdeath31.jpgfdrdeath3Graham Jackson, the blind accordion player in Warm Springs, Georgiahttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/fdrdeath3.jpgfdrdeath3https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/frde_fdrmain.jpgFRDE_fdrmainRoosevelt Memorial, Washington D.C.https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/img956.jpgimg956"Big" (Olive West Stott) in front of the old hospital on River Road, 1940s.2011-09-21T16:07:12+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/09/21/holding-down-the-home-front/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/img954.jpgimg954Sara makes the front page of "GI Jabber"2011-09-27T12:33:43+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/09/20/war-and-prosperity/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/soe_photo_wjohnson.jpgsoe_photo_wjohnsonWallace Johnson, co-founder of Holiday Inns, and builder of sixty Greenwood homes. https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/img952.jpgimg952Leflore Theatre, southeast corner of Fulton and Washington.https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/img951.jpgimg951Greenwood citizens employed at the Air Base. https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/img950.jpgimg950USO on Howard Street2011-09-19T16:03:54+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/09/19/daring-young-men-in-their-flying-machines/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/img943.jpgimg943Special Services Officer Charles J. "Chuck" Everett, Minneapolis MNhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/img944.jpgimg944Cadet Jim Lowe, Seffner, Floridahttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/img945.jpgimg945Cadet Roy Kocera, Minneapolis MNhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/img947.jpgimg947Bob Bainhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/img9481.jpgimg948https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/img948.jpgimg948Cadet Bob Bain, Pittsburg PAhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/img949.jpgimg949Cadet Henry Moore, Youngstown Ohio2011-09-19T01:43:16+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/09/18/a-home-away-from-home/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/img942.jpgimg942Jessie and Tricia, during Jessie's bartending days. She was mother to a lot of young men in those days. https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/greenwood046.jpgGreenwood046Confederate Memorial Building, home to the Cadet Clubhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/greenwood169.jpgGreenwood169Matchbook cover from Greenwood Army Air Field, courtesy of Donny Whitehead, aboutgreenwoodms.com.2011-09-17T23:03:55+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/09/17/everyday-patriotism/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/220px-wpa_blackout_poster.jpg220px-WPA_Blackout_posterhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/220px-fdr_in_1933.jpg220px-FDR_in_19332011-09-15T12:19:42+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/09/16/ration-book-blues/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/img940.jpgimg940Roy Stott's WWII ration book.https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/nylons.jpgnylonshttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/img939.jpgimg939Corner of Howard Street and Church Street during WWIIhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/img938.jpgimg938Bank of Greenwood staff; Mary Olive Evans (Mamie) is on front row, far right. 2011-09-15T12:10:32+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/09/15/we-regret-to-inform-you/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/img934.jpgimg934Billy Hendrix, a Greenville friend.https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/img935.jpgimg935Carlton Notgrass, one of Sara's Jackson friends.https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/img933.jpgimg933Henry Moore, Greenwood Airbase Cadet from Youngstown, Ohio.https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/img936.jpgimg936A secretary in great demand, early 1940s.2011-09-14T13:51:22+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/09/14/welcome-to-our-world/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/img925.jpgimg925https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/img929.jpgimg929Mamie, Jessie, Bill Roberson and Sara, 1942.2011-09-13T12:43:55+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/09/13/cheerleader-for-greenwood/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/img923.jpgimg923Sara, Mrs. Boland and Mary Hayes Crow, City Hall in the snowhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/img922.jpgimg922Botts Blackstone, Greenwood's long-time Chamber of Commerce Directorhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/img9241.jpgimg924Sara in front of Greenwood City Hall, 1942https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/img924.jpgimg9242011-09-13T02:45:32+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/09/11/never-forget/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/img921.jpgimg921Sara Evans Criss, April 1, 1921-September 11, 2009.2011-09-11T21:35:17+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/09/12/the-circle-unbroken/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/img920.jpgimg920Bama with her first great-grandchild, Bill Roberson, 1941.https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/img_0006.jpgIMG_0006Theodorene Sproles West, 1868-1942.https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/evans-80_0003.jpgEvans 80_0003Bigma, Bama, Jessie and Sara, circa 1921.2011-09-09T12:26:19+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/09/10/1496/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/img919.jpgimg919Russell on maneuvers, probably in Texashttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/img914.jpgimg914Mamie, Tricia and Sara, 1942. The old Attlesey house is visible in the background.2011-09-08T18:01:18+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/09/09/gone-for-a-soldier/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/img918.jpgimg918Joe Labello, Russell Criss and Carlton Stoudemayerhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/img916.jpgimg916Joe Labello and Russell, 1942.https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/img917.jpgimg917Russell on Christmas Day, 1942, at Pine Camp, NY.https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/200px-45th_infantry_insignia_thunderbird.png200px-45th_Infantry_insignia_(thunderbird)45th Infantry Thunderbird.https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/img904.jpgimg904Russell with Tricia and Sara, just before being sent overseashttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/img905.jpgimg9052014-02-04T11:53:16+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/09/06/the-one/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/img899.jpgimg899Leroy (?last name), one of the male boarders at Miss Annie's. https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/img898.jpgimg898Eulalie Johnson and a Greenville policemanhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/img897.jpgimg897Butch Nabors, Russell's roommate, on Main Street, Greenville.https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/img8941.jpgimg894https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/img896.jpgimg896Russell Criss and Frankie Hitt in Findlay's Drug Store, 1941. 2011-09-06T09:56:42+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/09/08/infamy/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/200px-fdr_delivers_speech.jpg200px-Fdr_delivers_speechhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/images-9.jpegimages-92011-09-06T01:17:09+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/09/07/ramon-and-russell/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/img901.jpgimg901Russell at Camp Barkley, Texas. Sara's notation says this was his "first tailor made suit and last time in civilian clothes," so it must have been late 1941.https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/img900.jpgimg900Ramon Harris, Sara's boss and sometimes date.2011-09-05T23:41:21+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/09/05/city-lights/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/img895.jpgimg895Miss Annie Moore and Eulalie Johnson, 1941.https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/img894.jpgimg894Miss Annie and Eulalie, clowning around in the clothesline laundry.https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/img893.jpgimg893Miss Annie Moore's boarding house, 113 North Shelby, Greenville, 1941. Sara lived here from December, 1940 until April, 1941. That's Eulalie Johnson on the left and maybe Russell Criss on the right. https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/250px-nya_poster_illinois_1937.jpg250px-NYA_Poster_Illinois_1937NYA poster from 19372011-09-07T20:28:27+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/09/04/a-nation-on-the-brink/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/img892.jpgimg892Sara in 1940https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/img891.jpgimg891Congressman Will Whittington2011-09-03T15:13:24+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/09/03/working-girl/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/greenwood012.jpgGreenwood012This photo of Howard Street was taken many years before Sara's days at Weiler's Jewelry, but the store is the one with a large awning, just behind the buggy. https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/images-8.jpegimages-8https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/img890.jpgimg890Christine Dorsey, Sara's best friend and co-conspirator in dropping out. https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/img888.jpgimg888Ward Hall girls in the Great Snowstorm of 1940.https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/img889.jpgimg889George Woolfork, S.R.Stephens and Hilda Pritchard, cutting up at DSU in the 1940 snow.2011-09-01T20:50:11+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/09/02/1414/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/img883.jpgimg883January, 1940 snowball fight on Ward Hall roofhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/img882.jpgimg882Freshman Orientationhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/img881.jpgimg881DSU coeds, 1939-40; Sara is fourth from left; her roommate, Martha Frances Harris is far right.https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/img8751.jpgimg875Carlton Notgrass, Sara and Jack Locke, in front of Leota Taylor's Belhaven home, 1939.https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/img886.jpgimg886https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/img885.jpgimg885Sara's GHS diploma, 1939https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/img884.jpgimg884T.D.Wood, Sara's friend from 18 to 80. 2011-09-01T11:14:24+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/09/01/dancing-on-the-roof/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/yourhitparade.jpgyourhitparadehttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/images-7.jpegimages-7https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/img879.jpgimg879Sara and Russell on the Heidelberg Roof, late 1940s2011-08-31T12:58:56+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/08/31/1378/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/img880.jpgimg880Tattletale Buddy Stott with Rena Stott ("Rawa"). https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/img875.jpgimg875Sara with two Jackson friends, Carlton Notgrass and Jack Lockehttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/img874.jpgimg874Page from 1939 Deltonian. Wonder why the newspaper staff didn't get their picture in here? https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/img873.jpgimg873Miss Leigh, who probably had to teach Sara shorthand and typing. I'm sure they didn't pay her nearly enough. https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/img872.jpgimg872Mary Olive Evans ("Mamie"). Senior portrait, perhaps? Tiny definitely wasn't the only beauty in the family. 2011-08-30T17:58:19+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/04/29/a-cloud-of-witnesses/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/evans-album-50_0001.jpgEvans Album 50_0001Howard Evans on the right, probably at the Buckeyehttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/img878.jpgimg878Buckeye Oil Mill, undated.https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/img876.jpgimg876Jessie Mae West, probably about 19152011-08-30T11:49:40+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/08/30/ghs-class-of-39/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/img868.jpgimg868Sara's Commonwealth article about the 1983 GHS reunion for the classes of '37, '38 and '39.https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/img869.jpgimg869Coach Gene Chadwickhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/img866.jpgimg866Miss Mary McCainhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/img867.jpgimg867Sara's Geometry report card, signed by Coach Chadwick. If he hadn't been so cute, she might have made 100s. 2014-01-28T13:13:09+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/08/29/star-dust-and-strikeouts/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/img870.jpgimg870Jessie Evans ("Tiny"), about 1936https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/400px-kyserband.jpg400px-KyserBandKay Kyser and his bandhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/star-dust-sheet-music.jpgStar Dust sheet musichttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/img865.jpgimg865George Patton and Sara, 1938https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/img864.jpgimg864George Patton and Woody Combs, 1939. https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/img815.jpgimg815Eddie Amelung, Woody Combs and George Patton on Mississippi River ferry.2011-08-29T16:40:35+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/08/28/the-dating-game/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/img861.jpgimg861Olive Stott ("Big") in front of the old River Road hospitalhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/img860.jpgimg860Would you risk coming in late to face this mother?https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/img859.jpgimg859Sara in front of the Stott house, which may have been a safer place to meet dates than inside.https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/img858.jpgimg858D.T. Francis, who received an unexpected gift at the Stott house2011-08-29T13:59:17+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/08/26/nicotine-fits/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/32camel1.jpg32Camel1https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/img840.jpgimg840Mack Standifer, Sara and Lucille's partner in the ditch. https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/img839.jpgimg839Lucille McAlexander, the motoring terror of Bell Avenue.https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/img844.jpgimg844GHS boys, 1938. No drinkers in this bunch, obviously.2014-08-23T22:12:31+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/08/25/jake-joins-the-pep-squad/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/img8371.jpgimg837Pep Squad members in New York City. The infamous Alice May McBee is fourth from the right.https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/img8381.jpgimg838The 1937-38 Pep Squad. https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/img838.jpgimg838https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/img837.jpgimg837https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/img836.jpgimg836GHS Band Director Roy Martinhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/img835.jpgimg835Greenwood High School band, 19392011-08-25T12:03:10+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/08/27/jessie-and-the-wpa/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/220px-wpasign.jpg220px-WPAsignhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/img857.jpgimg857Jessie, dressed for work in front of the Stott househttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/img852.jpgimg852Jessie and Tricia2011-08-24T20:21:29+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/08/24/three-musketeers/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/img830.jpgimg830Mack and Sara at the McAlexander house, southeast corner of Poplar and Bell Avenue. https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/img828.jpgimg828Marion "Mack" Standiferhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/img826.jpgimg826Sara loses it. https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/img822.jpgimg822Lucille McAlexander, Sara and Mack Standifer, all age 17, 1938.2014-08-23T22:08:53+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/08/23/play-ball/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/img814.jpgimg814Bill Tench, pitcher for the Dodgershttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/img813.jpgimg813Marion ("Mack") Standifer with Woody Combshttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/img812.jpgimg812Clark Esser, Sara, Bob Salveson, Lucille Pillowhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/img8091.jpgimg809https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/img811.jpgimg811George Patton, catcher, who seems to have been Sara's favorite. I'm not sure she even knew what exactly it was that a catcher caught.https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/img810.jpgimg810George Patton and Woody Combs, Greenwood Dodgers; Sara in the background.https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/img804.jpgimg8041938 Greenwood Bulldogs2011-09-09T20:48:23+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/08/22/back-to-jackson/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/img807.jpgimg807Sara, Alice and J.M.https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/img809.jpgimg809The party for Sara at Leota's house, 1936. https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/img805.jpgimg805Sara, Harry Holton, Alice Taylor, Bill Taylor, Leota Taylorhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/img808.jpgimg808Leota Taylor, J.M.Weaver and Sara, 1936.https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/img806.jpgimg806Sara as the Statue of Liberty, Leota Taylor's front yard, Belhaven, 19362011-08-22T02:05:07+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/08/20/cruger-crushes/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/img800.jpgimg800Junior Griffin at the State Fair, 1935. https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/img799.jpgimg799Sara at the State Fair, 1935. 2011-09-03T15:11:37+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/08/19/tiny/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/img793.jpgimg793Tricia, Mamie, Sara, Jessie and Tiny, late 1940s. https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/evans-album-8_0001.jpgEvans Album 8_0001Tiny and Howard, circa 1919https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/evans-album-11_0002.jpgEvans Album 11_0002Tiny as a tot.2011-08-19T10:32:48+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/08/18/the-light-fantastic/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/butler-profile.gifbutler-profileJohn Butler, who "didn't do much" for Sara as a dance partner. https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/img791.jpgimg791Whitford Price dance recital program. Lots of familiar names in small print. https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/img792.jpgimg792Tricia in her Whitford Price practice outfit.2011-08-16T02:30:32+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/08/17/dangerous-doctors/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/dr-ruth-dean.jpgdr-ruth-deanDr. Ruth Deanhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/dr-john-preston-kennedy.jpgdr-john-preston-kennedyDr. Preston Kennedy. https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/img_7907.jpgIMG_7907Physicians and Surgeons Building, West Washington Street. Photo courtesy of Mary Rose Carter.https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/greenwood0791.jpgGreenwood0792011-08-15T20:25:02+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/08/16/perms-and-penmanship/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/250px-palmer_classroom.png250px-Palmer_classroomA Palmer Penmanship classroomhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/images-3.jpegimages-3https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/permanent_wave.jpgpermanent_waveA beauty-parlor permanent wave machine from the 1930s.https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/img790.jpgimg790Sara at age 15, unpermed. 2011-08-29T03:39:20+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/08/15/kind-cousin/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/img783.jpgimg783Ernest Stewart, front row right, with his fishing buddieshttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/img782.jpgimg782Cudn Ern2011-08-15T15:31:13+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/08/13/close-call/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/images-2.jpegimages-22011-08-10T15:01:51+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/08/12/one-big-happy-family/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/img780.jpgimg780John, Tricia and Son, all dressed up for some reason. https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/img779.jpgimg779Buddy, John, Roy and Rena (Rawa) Stott, around 1930.https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/img781.jpgimg781Sara, Mamie and Rawa, late 1930s. 2011-08-10T14:53:04+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/08/11/hell-hath-no-fury/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/140.jpg140Cosmopolitan cover from the 1930s. A current Cosmo cover would be too X-rated for this PG blog. https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/fountains.jpgfountainsFountain's Big Busy Store, victim of Greenwood's kleptomaniac. Postcard courtesy of Donny Whitehead, aboutgreenwoodms.com2011-08-10T14:52:28+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/08/10/shucks-and-shotguns/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/img778.jpgimg778Sara on her 18th birthday. Notice the First Baptist Church dome in the background. https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/oh_intro.jpgoh_introhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/greenwood029.jpgGreenwood029Downtown Greenwood from the Greenwood Utilities water tower; Miss Daisy's house is the large one in the foreground. Notice how many homes there are in the downtown area, circa 1930. https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/greenwood048.jpgGreenwood048Artesian well gushing on the Davis School grounds.2011-08-10T10:15:04+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/08/09/wicked-ways-on-washington/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/img774.jpgimg774Tricia and Jessie, about 1940https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/images-11.jpegimages-1Mrs. Kravitz, watching Samanthahttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/destry.jpgJames Stewart - destry rides again - & Marlene DietrichMarlene Dietrich did not live on East Washington, but she could have played some of the characters who did. 2011-08-09T12:40:10+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/08/07/aunt-aggie-mrs-butter-ball-and-hambone/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/img_0007.jpgIMG_0007One of the black women who worked for the Evans family; regrettably, Sara did not identify her in this photo.https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/images2.jpegimagesThis is Butterfly, not Laura. https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/images1.jpegimagesThis is Butterfly, not Laura.https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/lf.jpeglfSeveral of J.P.Alley's "Hambone Meditations"2011-08-08T17:18:06+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/08/07/sabbatical/2011-08-07T16:20:21+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/08/06/baptists-on-broomsticks/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/greenwood079.jpgGreenwood079First Baptist Church, home of the Stitch and Chatterers. https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/evans-140_0008.jpgEvans 140_0008Bama and Sara at 1212 Strong Avenue, probably 1923 or 1924.https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/534px-broomsforsale.jpg534px-BroomsforSalehttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/img_7531.jpgIMG_7531Miss Daisy Wright's home on Fulton Street. Photo courtesy of Mary Rose Carter.https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/img773.jpgimg773Bama with Tricia, 1933. She was 65 years old. 2011-08-06T10:39:12+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/08/05/shalom-yall/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/greenwood112.jpgGreenwood112Interior of Weiler's Jewelers, "The Musical Forest," now Port Eliothttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/greenwood109.jpgGreenwood109Kantor's, "Outfitters to Mankind," now Russell's Antiqueshttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/greenwood097.jpgGreenwood097The Irving Hotel, now the Alluvianhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/ahavathrayim6-1.jpgAhavathRayim6-1Ahavath Rayim Synagogue2023-08-20T02:09:02+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/08/04/stage-sister/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/images-1.jpegimages-1Shirley at her peak. She can't hold a candle to Tricia. https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/img772.jpgimg772Tricia in one of many dance recital costumes. Hollywood paid no attention. https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/images.jpegimageshttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/img771.jpgimg771https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/img770.jpgimg770Mamie and Tricia, probably on their way to the Synagogue.2011-08-04T10:11:30+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/08/03/dodgers-and-desperadoes/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/img766.jpgimg766In the center of it all, 115 East Washington: Mamie, Jessie, Rena(Rawa), Son, Sara, Big, John and Uncle Roy, with Tricia and The Cat seated on the floor, 1944.https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/mv5bmti3mtewmtazmf5bml5banbnxkftztywmtmxnti5-_v1.jpgMV5BMTI3MTEwMTAzMF5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTYwMTMxNTI5._V1https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/img7692.jpgimg769https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/img7681.jpgimg768George Patton, catcher for the Dodgers, with Sara, 1938.https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/img7672.jpgimg767The 1938 Greenwood Dodgershttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/img7691.jpgimg769Sara's lifelong friend, Jerome Bennetthttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/img7651.jpgimg765208 Walthall Street, once the home of the Meneese family, later Sara and Russell's first home. https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/img7671.jpgimg767https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/img769.jpgimg769Sara's lifelong friend, Jerome Bennetthttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/img768.jpgimg768George Patton, a catcher for the Dodgers, and Sara, 1938.2013-12-06T19:15:42+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/08/02/cruisin/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/img762.jpgimg762That cute soda jerk from Greenville, with his future sister-in-law, Mamie.https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/img761.jpgimg761No clue who this is blowing bubbles in the 1938 Deltonian, but it's a safe bet that Sara didn't care much for her. Next to Sara is her friend Mack Standifer.https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/img760.jpgimg760The Oliver twins and three friends, cruising Greenwood in 1938 Deltonian.https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/img759.jpgimg759This ad is actually for Charles Wright's Ice Cream Factory, I believe, but I suspect they also supplied the Double Dip. https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/img758.jpgimg758Sara and Tricia, around 1937 or 19382011-08-02T11:23:13+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/08/01/custard-cussing-and-convicts/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/img619.jpgimg619Tricia, Spot Pettey, and Sara, with Mrs. Avent' s boarding house visible in the background, probably around 1939. https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/img752.jpgimg752Snapshot from 1939 Deltonian, captioned "Hen Party." I'm almost sure that's Sara on the right side of the scrum. https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/polar_bear.jpgPolar_BearThis custard stand was in Wichita, not downtown Greenwood, but you get the idea. https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/img751.jpgimg751Big's friend Hogjaw Mullen2011-08-01T16:31:58+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/07/31/the-dark-side/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/p1020138.jpgP1020138This is NOT the Yerger House, but it demonstrates the sort of clutter we found there in the '60s. And, yes, that is a peacock. https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/img749.jpgimg749https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/img748.jpgimg748The Yerger House, George Street, Greenwood, shortly before it was torn down.2011-07-31T11:02:19+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/07/30/washington-and-walthall-part-ii/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/img750.jpgimg750Tricia in a little Adirondack chair made for her by John Howard Freeman, Jr. https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/img747.jpgimg747Greenwood cotton in the early-to-mid 1900s, some of which was likely ginned at Freeman's Electric Gin on Carrollton Avenue.https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/yazoo-river-1896_0005.jpgYazoo River 1896_0005Steamboats on the Yazoo River, 1896; perhaps one of Cap'n Johnson's boats?https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/img_7694.jpgIMG_7694Greyhound Bus Station, corner of Church and Main. Photo courtesy of Mary Rose Carter. 2011-07-30T17:02:42+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/07/29/just-south-of-washington-and-walthall/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/x160en_11.jpgx160en_1Chicago Worlds' Fair, 1934https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/x160en_1.jpgx160en_1https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/img746.jpgimg746Botts Blackstone, Sara and Mayor Allan Saffold, posing for "G.I. Jabber" in 1945https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/img7431.jpgimg743Standing: Mamie, Nell Upshur's cousin, Mary Torrey Saffold. Seated: Nell Upshur, Tricia, Sara. Probably 1936 or 1937.2011-07-29T10:19:41+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/07/28/washington-and-walthall/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/lawrence_oldphoto_big.jpglawrence_oldphoto_bigLawrence Printing Company, when it was located on Market Street. Could that be the mischievious Tulliah Carter?https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/img743.jpgimg743https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/img742.jpgimg742Mamie and Sara on their corner, 1943. https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/503514-image.jpg503514-imageThe Telfair House, now Bella Flora.2011-07-28T11:35:57+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/07/27/funerals-as-a-spectator-sport/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/tn2.jpegtnWilson Funeral Home, southeast corner of Walthall and Washington streetshttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/tn1.jpegtnhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/tn.jpegtnhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/1934-packard.jpg1934 Packardhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/img740.jpgimg740Tootie and Tricia in the Stott yard, circa 19392011-07-27T10:06:40+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/07/26/gliding-through-the-depression/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/297.jpeg297Nelly Don herselfhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/img741.jpgimg741John Stott on the famous front porch, with the phantom glider and rocking chairs, 1944https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/img739.jpgimg739Uncle Roy and Big in front of their home, 115 East Washington. The much-loved porch is on the right side of the house. 2011-07-26T11:21:33+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/07/25/movies-and-measles/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/220px-flash_gordon_serial.jpg220px-Flash_Gordon_(serial)https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/200px-buckrogersserial.jpg200px-Buckrogersserialhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/img738.jpgimg738Paramount Theater, East Washington Street.2011-07-25T12:26:36+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/07/24/growing-up/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/img727.jpgimg727https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/img732.jpgimg732The amorous Billy Mallettehttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/img734.jpgimg734Sara in 19352014-01-06T02:06:35+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/07/23/camp-capers-and-dead-ducks/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/23304_394146783108_956_n.jpg23304_394146783108_956_nhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/heading3.jpgheading3https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/img725.jpgimg725Article from July 23, 1934 Commonwealth. Think it was hot that day?https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/img726.jpgimg726Greenwood Municipal Swimming Poolhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/img724.jpgimg724Betty Sue Neves and Sara at camp, 1934https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/img723.jpgimg723The 1934 Camp Ki-Y picture. Sara is second row, second from left, then Mary Charlotte Clarke, Lena White Miller and Mary Hayes Crow. Rawa is in center on the back row. If Tiny is in this photo, I can't find her. 2019-02-12T00:04:36+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/07/22/simpler-times/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/img_7726.jpgIMG_7726Old Greenwood High School. The flagpole has been moved closer to the building, but the little brick circle can still be seen on the sidewalk, left side of picture. Courtesy of Mary Rose Carter.https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/img722.jpgimg722https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/img720.jpgimg720The old Keesler-Hamrick-Gillespie Stadium, now a parking lot behind the Viking Demonstration Center.https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/img721.jpgimg721The recreated 1834 Greenwood, on the site east side of Walthall by the river. https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/img7141.jpgimg714Spot Pettey, good citizenhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/img719.jpgimg719https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/img718.jpgimg718https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/mv5bmje1mtk0mte5nf5bml5banbnxkftztywmtuxnzg4-_v1.jpgMV5BMjE1MTk0MTE5NF5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTYwMTUxNzg4._V1Frankly, my dear, I don't give a darn. https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/3590266336_441b166eb5_m1.jpg3590266336_441b166eb5_m2011-07-22T11:18:35+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/07/21/sara-meet-marjorie/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/encycbrit1913.jpgEncycBrit1913"M" is for Menopausehttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/3590266336_441b166eb5_m.jpg3590266336_441b166eb5_mRequired reading for nice little girls2011-07-21T10:20:50+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/07/20/life-with-lena/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/images-1.jpegimages-1https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/img7163.jpgimg716Sara and Lena Whitehttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/img7162.jpgimg716https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/img7161.jpgimg7162011-07-20T10:23:54+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/07/19/uptown-girl/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/img716.jpgimg716Lena White Millerhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/img717.jpgimg717Howard Street in the 1930s. Sara would have likely been found in Woolworth's, on the right between Kantor's and Penney's. 2011-07-19T11:34:28+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/07/18/life-goes-on/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/img713.jpgimg713Sara in 1934, age 13https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/img714.jpgimg714Spot Petteyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/img710.jpgimg710Sara, Mary Hayes Crow, Mary Charlotte Clarke, Billy Woodell, Harold Hemmer, James Millard Pierce, Elizabeth Ann Colvard, Lena White Miller, Elizabeth Hale. Spot must have been the photographer.https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/img715.jpgimg715Sara's "Gang" : Front row, Elizabeth Hale, Harold Hemmer, Mary Hayes Crow, Spot Pettey, Lena White Miller; Back Row: James Millard Pierce, Sara, Billy Woodell2022-02-18T05:53:46+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/07/17/never-the-same-again/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/img709.jpgimg709Joseph Daniel Garrickhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/pa1a15_divinity_lg.jpgpa1a15_divinity_lgPaula Deen's Divinity, which probably doesn't compare to Mrs. Ashcraft's. https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/img576.jpgimg576Davis Schoolhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/img623.jpgimg623Old Greenwood Junior High School2011-07-17T10:25:57+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/07/15/big-and-uncle-roy/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/img708.jpgimg708https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/img707.jpgimg707Big and Uncle Roy in front yard of 115 East Washington, 1944.https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/evans-105_0017.jpgEvans 105_0017Roy Stott and Roy Stott, Jr. (Buddy), circa 1921https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/img706.jpgimg706https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/img704.jpgimg704Big in her nurses' training uniform, circa 1911, taken on front steps of old Kings Daughters Hospital https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/img705.jpgimg705Big and Uncle Roy in their younger days2011-07-16T13:43:12+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/07/15/the-saints-of-east-washington/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/img703.jpgimg703The Stotts: Roy, Jr., Uncle Roy and Rena standing; Big and John seated. https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/img702.jpgimg702The Stott House at 115 East Washington Street (now the Calhoun Law Office)2011-07-15T12:15:11+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/07/14/so-sweet-and-kind-and-good/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/img_03701.jpgIMG_0370https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/img701.jpgimg701https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/img_0370.jpgIMG_03702011-07-15T02:06:43+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/07/13/summer-of-32/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/il_570xn.jpgil_570xNA Sunbonnet Sue design from the 1930shttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/img700.jpgimg700Fairgoers flock to see Sara and Mamie's quilts2011-07-13T11:45:00+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/07/12/and-baby-makes-five/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/img699.jpgimg699Old Baptist Hospital, North State Street, early 1930s. https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/img698.jpgimg698Sara's baby sister, Patricia Ann Evans2011-07-12T09:46:29+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/07/11/tour-de-jackson/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/img6971.jpgimg697Sara and a later bike, 1941.https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/img697.jpgimg697https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/hawthornebicyclescvr1920_lg.jpgHawthorneBicyclesCvr1920_lghttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/img696.jpgimg696A circus parade (definitely not Sara's parade) down Capitol Street; Governor's Mansion would be on the right, and old First National Bank and Deposit Guaranty buildings are seen in the distance.https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/img680.jpgimg680Old Jackson City Auditorium2011-07-11T18:28:53+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/07/07/christmas-memories/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/img695.jpgimg695Sara and Russell, mid-1980s, in the midst of Sara's favorite season.https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/8740ahc_27.jpeg8740ahc_27A toy electric stove from the early 1930s; most were sold for scrap during WW II.https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/img694.jpgimg694Christmas on Capitol Street, Jackson, 1930s2011-09-30T10:23:17+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/07/06/toys-treats-and-teenagers/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/history_mainimg.jpghistory_mainImghttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/img693.jpgimg693Lamar Life Building, Capitol Street. https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/yoyo.jpgyoyoA 1930 Duncan YoYo2011-07-06T12:25:27+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/07/05/white-lies-and-white-knuckles/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/img692.jpgimg692View of the Tower Building taken from the roof of the Robert E. Lee Hotel in 1930. https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/img691.jpgimg691Jackson's skyline around 1930, with the Tower Building (later Standard Life) the white building on the left side.2011-07-05T11:13:34+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/07/04/vicksburg-on-the-4th/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/img690.jpgimg690Dedication of the Mississippi Monument, Vicksburg Military Park, Nov.13 1909. 2011-07-04T13:55:25+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/07/04/marathon-mania/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/dancemarathon01.jpgDanceMarathon01Not the Livingston Park marathon, but you get the idea.2011-07-04T11:29:33+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/07/03/high-water-and-hijinks/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/113204-m.jpg113204-MOld Woodrow Wilson Bridge (1925), which led from downtown Jackson to the Gold Coasthttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/img688.jpgimg688River Road and Leflore County Courthouse during 1932 flood.https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/greenwood172.jpgGreenwood172Grand Boulevard, looking north from Keesler Bridge, during 1932 flood. The house on the right stood where Dr. Bill Jones' office is now.https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/294t.jpg294tGovernor Mike Connerhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/images.jpegimagesTheodore G. Bilbo, in his usual form2011-07-03T21:15:59+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/07/02/just-as-i-am/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/evans-60.jpgEvans 60Mamie, before she got saved. https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/img687.jpgimg687https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/img686.jpgimg686Calvary Baptist Church, West Capitol Street, Jackson. This must have been a newspaper illustration which Sara cut out and saved.2011-07-02T11:02:36+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/07/01/moon-over-the-mountain/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/kate4.jpgkate4Kate Smith in her prime. https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/3-12.jpg3-1https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/220px-rooster_portrait2.jpg220px-Rooster_portrait2This was never meant to be a pet. https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/img6421.jpgimg642Sara and Son, probably 1930 https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/frontandback.jpgFrontandBack2011-08-31T01:26:41+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/06/30/amos-and-the-whippet/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/3-11.jpg3-1Jackson State College football team, probably 1930s. https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/3-1.jpg3-1Jackson State football team, 1930shttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/o_whippetad.jpgo_whippetad1927 Whippet, not Sara's style. 2011-06-30T10:22:46+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/06/29/babe-bad-guys-and-bootleggers/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/220px-john_dillinger_mug_shot.jpg220px-John_Dillinger_mug_shotJohn Dillingerhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/200px-babe_ruth2.jpg200px-Babe_Ruth22011-06-29T13:01:04+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/06/28/birthday-wishes/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/img685.jpgimg685Howard M. Evans, Sr., early 1930s. 2011-06-29T00:33:07+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/06/28/its-a-wonderful-town/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/img_77621.jpgIMG_7762Wilson Banking Company(foreground), Bank of Commerce 1904 facade (background), 2010. Infrared photo courtesy of Mary Rose Carter.https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/43782547.jpg43782547Depression-era Christmas adhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/1-2-11b3-25-explorepahistory-a0k7x1-a_349.jpg1-2-11B3-25-ExplorePAHistory-a0k7x1-a_349https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/img684.jpgimg684Original Bank of Commerce building, just behind the light pole, Market Street, 1906. Notice unfinished courthouse tower in the background, behind Henderson Baird building. https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/img_7762.jpgIMG_7762The old Wilson Banking Company in foreground, Bank of Commerce in background, 2010. Infrared photo courtesy of Mary Rose Carter2018-07-24T00:45:15+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/06/27/bats-in-the-belfry/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/img683.jpgimg683Mississippi State Insane Asylum, 1855-1935, now the site of University Medical Center.2011-06-27T11:40:09+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/06/26/remembering-cecil/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/img679.jpgimg679Sara's 3rd grade report card, Whitfield School, 1929-30.https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/img680.jpgimg680Old Municipal Auditorium, downtown Jackson, where Sara never sang.https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/img658.jpgimg658The back of this photo reads (in Sara's handwriting): "Cecil Inman, Jackson, my childhood sweetheart."2011-06-26T10:35:24+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/06/25/more-whitfield-days/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/img6731.jpgimg673Leota Taylor [Williams]https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/img676.jpgimg676Jack Baliff, standing in the rear, age 9. His face just doesn't want to come into focus. https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/img6751.jpgimg675Same photo of 1930 Whitifield 4th grade, but I found Sara's ID notes. "Alfalfa" is Malcolm Lowe; Marjorie Wilson is front row, second from right; Jack Baliff is on the far left, 4th row. Leota Taylor is first row, fourth from right. https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/img675.jpgimg675https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/img673.jpgimg673Leota Taylor [Williams], who remained a lifelong friend of Sara's.https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/img674.jpgimg674Leota Taylor, someone identified as "J.M." and Sara, clowning around ten years or so after their Whitfield days.https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/img6621.jpgimg662Sara (center) with Whitfield School friends, 1930. Which one is Marjorie? Leota? Ella Dee? Ethel? 2011-06-25T12:11:32+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/06/24/whitfield-days/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/img6752.jpgimg675Poor "frail" Florence Patrick, who learned not to stand next to Sara.https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/il_570xn.jpgil_570xNhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/img669.jpgimg669Whitfield School tower, the only portion of the building saved when it was demolished. https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/img665.jpgimg665Whitifield School, front entrance, 1980shttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/img659.jpgimg659Whitfield School's entry in a Jackson parade, year unknownhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/img663.jpgimg663Whitifield Elementary School in the 1980s, not long before it was demolished.https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/img662.jpgimg662Whitfield School 4th grade, 1930-1931. Sara is on the second row, fourth from right. Notice the "Alfalfa" lookalike on the front row, third from left, and the patterned knee socks and knickers the boys wore.2011-06-24T14:09:31+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/06/22/capitol-capers/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/img657.jpgimg657The Majestic Theatre with Sara's favorite store, Woolworth's.https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/img655.jpgimg655The Hunter and McGee Drug Store, just across Capitol Street from the Century Theatre. Maybe where Sara got orange juice?https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/img651.jpgimg651Livingston Park lake and bathhouse, right by the Jackson Zoohttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/img6561.jpgimg656Century Theatre, Capitol Street (the larger, darker building)https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/img656.jpgimg656Century Theatre (middle building), Capitol Street, Jacksonhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/img654.jpgimg654Capitol Street, Jackson. Kennington's is in the distance on the left, Kress' Dime Store a bit closer on the left, and the Century Theatre near the Baptist Church on the right.2011-06-23T11:22:05+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/06/22/mummies-and-midways/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/img672.jpgimg672Crowds at the State Fair in the late '20s or early '30s. Sara may be on the loose in this crowd with her taffy. https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/img660.jpgimg660Entrance gates at the State Fairgroundshttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/nsv_wht_mummy_head.jpgnsv_wht_mummy_headThe New Capitol Mummyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/img661.jpgimg661Mississippi's New Capitol, home of the mummy and other scary things, like the Senate.2011-06-23T02:37:51+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/06/21/october-losses/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/img653.jpgimg653Margaret Alexander (Bigma), Olive West Stott (Big), Thedorene Chavis West (Bama) with baby Rena Stott (Rawa)https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/evans-album-43_0002_21.jpgEvans Album 43_0002_2Margaret Anne Sproles Chavis Alexander, "Bigma," Sara's great-grandmotherhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/evans-album-43_0002_2.jpgEvans Album 43_0002_22011-06-21T09:51:18+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/06/20/look-out-jackson/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/img_00061.jpgIMG_0006Bama (Thedorene Chavis West), Confederate widow and Sara's grandmotherhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/img652.jpgimg652Old Capitol, Jackson MS, 1920s postcard2011-06-20T12:17:39+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/06/19/last-but-not-least/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/img650.jpgimg650Son, Sara, John Stott, Tricia and Roy Stott on the front steps of the Stott house, 1933.https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/img648.jpgimg648Patricia Evans on the Stott house front walk, 19332011-06-20T02:29:41+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/06/18/moving-on/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/img_00141.jpgIMG_0014Sara, Mamie and Tiny, probably their last winter in the Strong Avenue househttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/img_00031.jpgIMG_00032011-06-18T12:18:39+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/06/16/the-end-of-the-beginning/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/img_75671.jpgIMG_75671212 Strong Avenue, Summer 2010. Infrared photo courtesy of Mary Rose Carterhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/img_7567.jpgIMG_7567https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/img_0009.jpgIMG_00091212 Strong Avenue, with Mamie, Tiny and Sara on the bungalow steps.2011-06-17T02:44:24+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/06/15/tiptoeing-through-the-tombstones/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/img_0353.jpgIMG_0353Howard with Tiny, Sara and Mary at the Strong Avenue househttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/img647.jpgimg647Capitol Street, Jackson, circa 1930. The Walthall Hotel was about halfway down the street on the left. https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/img646.jpgimg646Buckeye Cotton Oil Mill, Greenwood, date unknownhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/img645.jpgimg645Old Greenwood Cemetery. Photo courtesy of Mary Rose Carter.2011-06-16T03:00:52+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/06/14/its-a-boy-finally/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/img644.jpgimg644Tricia, Sara, Son, Mamie and Tiny, some Christmas Eve in the early '60s.https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/42-23728368.jpgPaper doll boy with sailor suit shortshttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/img643.jpgimg643Howard Street in the late 1920s; Stein's Jewelers is by the third car on the left ( the one that's not parked very efficiently). https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/evans-72_0003.jpgEvans 72_0003Jessie with Mamie and Tinyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/img639.jpgimg639Son and Tricia, 1933, in front of Stott House, 115 East Washington.https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/img642.jpgimg642Sara with Son, circa 1930https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/img638.jpgimg638Davis School, mid-1920s2011-09-28T21:10:32+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/06/13/building-bridges/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/greenwood007.jpgGreenwood007The original "iron bridge," circa 1899. Photo courtesy of Donny Whitehead, aboutgreenwoodms.com. The caption on this postcard is in error, as the bridge did not exist in 1895. https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/yazoo-river-1896_00051.jpgYazoo River 1896_0005Steamboats docked on Front Street, circa 1896. From the collection of Imogene Lewishttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/img_7549.jpgIMG_7549Keesler Bridge in 2010, infrared photo courtesy of Mary Rose Carterhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/yazoo-river-1896_0005.jpgYazoo River 1896_0005Steamboats, probably at foot of Main or Howard Street, circa 1896. Photo courtesy of Imogene Lewishttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/ghs-football-undated.jpgGHS football undatedRiverboats at Greenwood, circa 1896. Photo from the collection of Imogene Lewis2011-06-14T03:33:52+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/06/13/bookworms/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/p1000521.jpgP1000521Lallah Walker Lewis murals in old Greenwood Libraryhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/child_life-1928-21.jpgChild_Life-1928-2https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/evans-album-11_00031.jpgEvans Album 11_0003Jessie with Tiny on the steps of the Greenwood Leflore Library, circa 1919https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/evans-album-11_0003.jpgEvans Album 11_0003https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/child_life-1928-2.jpgChild_Life-1928-2https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/evans-140_0002.jpgEvans 140_0002Jessie with Sarahttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/evans-105_0020.jpgEvans 105_0020Tiny deep in a storyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/img_0018.jpgIMG_0018Sara with something interesting to readhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/6070397.jpg60703972015-04-16T18:20:19+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/06/12/miss-minnie/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/img634.jpgimg634Newspaper article about Miss Minnie Attlesey's birthday party (notice that it doesn't say how old she was) and photograph of Tricia with Attlesey house in background.https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/img633.jpgimg633Bigma, Buddy and Rena Stott, with Attlesy House in background. Circa 1927.https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/img632.jpgimg632Howard Evans, Jr. and Patricia Evans in front of Stott House, with Miss Minnie Attlesy's house in the background. Ca. 1939-1940.2011-06-12T16:12:49+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/06/10/the-big-house/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/evans-album-39_0003.jpgEvans Album 39_0003Big (Olive West Stott) with Tiny (her niece) and Buddy (her son)https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/evans-63_0003.jpgEvans 63_0003Sara in the Kiddie Koop before it was passed on to John Stotthttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/p1000417.jpgP1000417The Stott House, 115 East Washington, a rare survivor of the downtown housing massacrehttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/1930_monitor_top_2.jpg1930_monitor_top_2This is very similar, if not the same model, to Big's GE refrigerator. It stayed in her back hall, working just fine, until she went to the nursing home, sometime around 1970. 2011-06-10T12:50:05+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/06/09/not-even-past/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/p1020606.jpgP1020606Tombstone of Elijah Sproles, CSA, Saron Cemetery in Holmes County MS. https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/img631.jpgimg631Lyceum at Ole Miss, 1861. I've always wondered if Anderson West is one of the young men in this photograph. He was a freshman at the time, soon to leave for the war and never return to Oxford.https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/img630.jpgimg630Anderson West with his wife, mother-in-law and daughters, circa 18992011-06-09T22:14:50+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/06/08/both-sides-of-the-tracks/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/img_0007.jpgIMG_0007Or perhaps this is Aunt Brown. Both of these photos have no identification, so I guess we'll never know. https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/evans-album-30_0001.jpgEvans Album 30_0001This may be Aunt Brown, with Tiny2011-06-08T17:16:42+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/06/07/miss-lizzie/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/img_7517.jpgIMG_7517Greenwood Leflore Library, 1914, Photo courtesy of Mary Rose Carterhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/greenwood032.jpgGreenwood032Miss Lizzie's chimes were placed in the courthouse tower in the early 1930shttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/evans-album-1.jpgEvans Album 1Bama, holding Tiny, with Rena and Buddy. Look past Rena's unfortunate hat to the left, where the Henderson House is clearly visible. Sara always said it was massive and it was a tragedy to lose it to a grocery store parking lot. 2011-06-08T02:02:19+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/06/05/flappers-and-flyers/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/img628.jpgimg628Battery C marching to the depot down Carrollton Avenue, September 1917. Notice the old Fire Station #1 in the background.https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/hawkinsfield-060113-02-resize.jpgHawkinsField-060113-02-resizeDecaying terminal building at Hawkins Field, Jacksonhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/ap26wlaqp0qtqb.jpgap26wlaqp0qtqbhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/evans-84_0007.jpgEvans 84_0007A few of Howard's men at the Buckeyehttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/evans-album-49.jpgEvans Album 49Howard's photo of an unidentified WWI soldier. Wonder who he was?https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/img_0001.jpgIMG_0001Mamie and Tiny, little flappers2011-06-07T17:46:33+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/06/04/revivals-and-rabbits-feet/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/rabbit_foot_minstrels.jpgrabbit_foot_minstrelshttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/220px-gypsysmith1.jpg220px-Gypsysmith1Gypsy Smith, famous evangelist2011-06-04T11:58:56+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/06/03/nurses-and-nashes/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/evans-100_00161.jpgEvans 100_0016Howard and Tiny in the Model T; Jessie is almost hidden in the backgroundhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/evans-100_0016.jpgEvans 100_0016https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/evans-album-50_0001.jpgEvans Album 50_0001Howard Evans on the right; perhaps Floyd Kemp on the left. This looks like a man who would drive a roadster, doesn't he?https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/250px-nash_six_touring_1927.jpg250px-Nash_Six_Touring_19271927 Nash, probably a bit fancier than the Evans automobilehttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/img627.jpgimg627Old Greenwood Hospital, built 1918https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/img626.jpgimg626Lois Aron Nurses Home in its better days, photo by Sara Evans Crisshttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/img_0020.jpgIMG_0020Rena and Tiny, with Hupmobile and Nurses' Home in the background. 2013-10-31T17:21:21+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/06/02/putting-on-airs-and-casts/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/evans-album-16_0002.jpgEvans Album 16_0002Howard with his handkerchief-stealing oldest daughter, Tiny, circa 1919https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/evans-album-53_0001.jpgEvans Album 53_0001There are Mamas and there are Mothers. This is a Mama, with Mamie.https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/img624.jpgimg624Edna Earle Gardner's 1938 Deltonian photohttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/img_0015.jpgIMG_0015https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/img_0369.jpgIMG_0369Mable Petty, arms intacthttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/img_00051.jpgIMG_0005https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/img_0005.jpgIMG_0005Mable Petty, Mamie, Tiny and Sara, with no broken arms2011-06-02T11:37:13+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/06/01/young-love-and-old-schools/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/img_7725.jpgIMG_7725Greenwood High School, 1924. Photo courtesy of Mary Rose Carterhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/img623.jpgimg623https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/img622.jpgimg622Fifty years after Sara first met Joe George Saunders, she visits with his niece, Liz Williams of Cotesworth. https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/img621.jpgimg621One of Mr. Wright's Artesian wells, with Davis School in the background. These wells supplied the stone fountain which still stands on the old Davis School campus (but it doesn't work any more). https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/img6201.jpgimg620Daisy Wright's home on Fulton Street. Photo courtesy of Mary Rose Carterhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/img620.jpgimg620Daisy Wright's home on Fulton Streethttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/img619.jpgimg619Tricia and Sara visiting with Spot Pettey, maybe in his Packard. Boarding house across from the East Washington Stott House is visible in the background.https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/img609.jpgimg6091939 GHS Deltonian staff, with several of Sara's lifelong friends. Front row: Mary Charlotte Clarke (her best friend), Sara, Joyce Whittington. Back row, middle: Spot Pettey2011-06-01T15:18:06+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/05/31/the-castle-part-ii/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/img_00061.jpgIMG_0006Mamie, perplexed by her little sisterhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/img.jpgIMGSad Sara before her Davis School dayshttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/220px-thelittleredhen.jpg220px-TheLittleRedHenhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/img582.jpgimg582GHS Football game, 1928, Davis School in the backgroundhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/img579.jpgimg579Sadly, no pictures of Miss Joiner and the Davis faculty were in Sara's collection; these were some of the teachers at Greenwood High School during the same time periodhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/img575.jpgimg575Davis School, 1904, a few years before it burnedhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/img5761.jpgimg5762011-06-01T02:26:41+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/05/31/the-castle/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/img577.jpgimg577Davis Schoolhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/img_0358.jpgIMG_0358Tiny in First Grade, Davis Schoolhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/img576.jpgimg576Davis School, original 1904 building2011-05-31T11:40:12+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/05/27/black-sheep-and-cudns/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/img574.jpgimg574The only known photograph of Lillie Dear Evans with her husband, Reverend R.M. Evans and their children, circa 1895https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/619px-8th_air_force.png619px-8th_Air_ForceMight Cudn Bob have been in the Mighty 8th? https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/225px-jim_farley.gif225px-Jim_FarleyPostmaster General James Farleyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/img573.jpgimg573Dewitt Evans in World War I uniformhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/img572.jpgimg572Dewitt Evanshttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/img_0366.jpgIMG_03662011-05-27T19:45:59+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/05/27/reptiles-and-relatives/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/greenwood024.jpgGreenwood024Howard Street, with Irving Hotel on left and J.Kantor's on right. Courtesy of Donny Whiteheadhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/img_0006.jpgIMG_0006Bama, Snake Nemesishttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/img570.jpgimg570Reverend Robert Manson Evanshttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/img569.jpgimg569Howard, Willie, Bonnie and Dewitt Evans, circa 1898https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/evans-140_0005.jpgEvans 140_0005Mamie, Tiny and Sara (The Snake Patrol) with Bigma, Jessie and Bama on porch of Strong Avenue bungalow2011-05-27T11:44:56+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/05/26/spooks-and-spring-water/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/img568.jpgimg568Congressman Frank Smith, third from right, from Sara's photograph collectionhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/img566.jpgimg566Castalian Springs Hotel, southwest of Duranthttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/img565.jpgimg565Owens Wells Hotel, Holmes County Mississippi2018-11-30T18:29:19+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/05/25/beauty-is-in-the-eye-of-the-beholder/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/img_00171.jpgIMG_0017Unidentified church from Evans album, possibly Macedoniahttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/evans-71_0002.jpgEvans 71_0002Bigma with Sara, 1921https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/evans-album-43_0002_2.jpgEvans Album 43_0002_2"Bigma," Margaret Ann Sproles Chavis Alexanderhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/img564.jpgimg564Sissie, Bigma and Bama in rear; Big and Jessie in front; Anderson West cut out of photograph on right edge2013-03-28T21:32:38+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/05/24/holmes-sweet-holmes/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/150px-absolom_m.jpg150px-Absolom_M"Uncle Madden," General A.M.Westhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/img563.jpgimg563Holmes County Courthouse, Lexingtonhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/img_0016.jpgIMG_0016Tiny, Sara and Mamie, perhaps in Holmes County2011-05-24T12:48:30+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/05/03/bama-and-the-big-bang/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/img562.jpgimg562Tricia, Mamie, Sara, Jessie and Tinyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/evans-140_0008.jpgBama and Sara"Bama" and Sara on Strong Avenue2015-03-07T14:24:46+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/05/23/more-portraits-in-time/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/img561.jpgimg561Howard Evans and his girlshttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/img560.jpgimg560Bigma, Bama, Big and Rena, probably also at Spurrier studiohttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/img558.jpgimg558Tiny, Mamie, Sara at Spurrier studio2011-05-23T17:49:18+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/05/23/portraits-in-time/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/img5571.jpgimg557https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/img5561.jpgimg556https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/img557.jpgimg557https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/img556.jpgimg556https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/img555.jpgimg555The Spurrier portrait: Mamie, Tiny and Sarahttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/evans-120_0015.jpgEvans 120_0015Sara, looking even cuterhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/evans-87_0008.jpgEvans 87_0008Mamie and Tiny, looking cute2011-05-23T13:23:31+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/05/22/jesus-wants-you-for-a-sunbeam-but-only-if-youre-baptist/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/greenwood081.jpgGreenwood081First Baptist Church, Greenwoodhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/evans-album-172.jpgevans-album-172Jessie on right with ?Tiny and unidentified friendhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/evans-105_00171.jpgEvans 105_00172011-05-22T10:14:26+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/05/20/walkin-in-memphis/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/img554.jpgimg554January 24, 1947https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/charles-lindbergh-1.jpgcharles-lindbergh-1https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/img553.jpgimg553White House Hotel, Biloxihttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/img552.jpgimg552Railroad timetable, Greenwood to Memphis, 1928https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/img551.jpgimg551Peabody Hotel, circa 19252011-05-20T12:48:40+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/05/19/orange-crush-and-outhouses/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/evans-120_0016.jpgEvans 120_0016Aunt Bonnie, ? with one of her five girlshttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/img550.jpgimg550Yazoo River at Greenwood, 1939https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/175px-orange_crush_ad_1921.png175px-Orange_Crush_Ad_1921https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/img_0364.jpgIMG_0364Two of Aunt Bonnie's five daughters, Sledge MShttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/img_00052.jpgIMG_0005Tiny, Mamie and Sara, perhaps in Sledge. Sara's worried question: "What's a privy?"https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/img_00051.jpgIMG_00052011-05-19T21:44:53+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/05/18/fun-with-the-funny-papers/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/evans-105_0020.jpgEvans 105_0020Mamie's turn with the funny papershttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/evans-album-6_0004.jpgEvans Album 6_0004Tiny with the Sunday paperhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/420px-gasolinealley31233.jpg420px-Gasolinealley31233Skeesix and friendshttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/img_0350.jpgIMG_0350Mamie, Rawa, Tiny and Buddy read the funnies.2011-05-19T02:03:12+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/05/17/the-evans-girls-are-ready-for-their-closeup-mr-demille/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/1392.jpg139Adelaide Thurston. Was she in Greenwood in 1913? https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/1391.jpg139The lovely Adelaide Thurston, who appeared in person or on screen in Greenwood, 1913https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/139.jpg139https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/tom-mix-318559.jpgtom-mix-318559This is Tom. No photo available of Moro. https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/kid.jpgkidJackie Coogan when he was still cutehttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/jazz.gifJazzGreenwood's first talkiehttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/gene_autry_3.jpggene_autry_3https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/img549.jpgimg549Paramount Theatre2011-05-18T03:19:45+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/05/17/memories-in-marble/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/greenwood164.jpgGreenwood1641913 dedication of Confederate Monument; Jessie Evans somewhere in the crowd.https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/greenwood037.jpgGreenwood037Leflore County Court House, before 1927 and 1952 additionshttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/bvi_2007a.jpgBVI_2007Ahttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/evans-120_0014.jpgEvans 120_0014Sara with flowers, circa 19232011-12-20T23:51:39+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/05/16/local-on-the-8s/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/img072.jpgimg072https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/img071.jpgimg071One of Sara's photos from 1958https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/evans-album-1_0001.jpgEvans Album 1_0001There are no pictures of the infamous Evans cats. Here's Jessie with Tiny and an unidentified dog on West Washington Street, ca. 1919.https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/img_0001.jpgIMG_0001Bama with Sara and unidentified child at Greenwood Leflore Libraryhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/img_0019.jpgIMG_0019Sara, Mable Petty, Tiny and Mamie2013-07-28T02:19:02+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/05/16/crackerjacks-and-cotton-sacks/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/img482.jpgimg482One of Sara's parade photos for Commercial Appealhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/evans-84_0007.jpgEvans 84_0007Howard's men at the Buckeye Oil Millhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/greenwood127.jpgGreenwood127Greenwood Compresshttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/greenwood1771.jpgGreenwood177https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/greenwood177.jpgGreenwood177Slats Hardin at the 1936 Olympics, Berlinhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/sjlogo100.jpgSJlogo100https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/ringling-brothers-and-barnum-bailey-circus-train.jpgringling-brothers-and-barnum-bailey-circus-trainhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/img_0017.jpgIMG_0017Tiny, Sara, Mamie in front, Rena and Buddy Stott behind2011-05-16T12:48:30+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/05/13/big-busy-days/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/evans-62_0001.jpgEvans 62_0001Baby Sara in the "Kiddie Koop," not for adoption.https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/greenwood107.jpgGreenwood107Fountain's Big Busy Store2011-05-22T11:31:45+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/05/13/stone-angels-and-water-wings/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/img_0011.jpgIMG_0011Mamie, Tiny and Sara with flowers2011-05-13T11:00:38+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/05/12/in-our-merry-hupmobile/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/greenwood035.jpgGreenwood035Leflore County Confederate Monument; Sally Clements at lefthttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/delineator_cover_december_1926_4419601.jpgDelineator cover December 1926https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/img_0020.jpgIMG_0020Rena and Mamie with Hupmobile in the backgroundhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/img_00071.jpgIMG_0007https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/evans-140_0012.jpgEvans 140_0012Tiny and friend2011-05-17T06:18:44+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/05/11/doing-the-evans-trot/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/doll84.jpgdoll84Tootsietoy Dollhousehttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/dtt3.jpgDTT3https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/11calomel.jpg11calomelhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/caldwell-screw-cap1.jpgcaldwell screw caphttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/caldwell-screw-cap.jpgcaldwell screw caphttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/img_0021.jpgIMG_0021Sara, Tiny and Mamie, maybe waiting for the Syrup of Pepsin2011-05-11T20:13:16+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/05/11/polar-bears-and-miss-pearl/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/img548.jpgimg548Bry's Department Store, Memphishttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/img_0002.jpgIMG_0002Sara, Rena Stott, Buddy Stott, Mamie and Tiny, with Pearl McLellan's house in the background2014-04-03T23:17:38+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/05/10/best-dressed/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/evans-album-171.jpgEvans Album 17Jessie and unidentified friends on West Washington Street, ca. 1920https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/img_00034.jpgIMG_0003https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/img_00032.jpgIMG_0003https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/img_00031.jpgIMG_0003https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/evans-album-17.jpgEvans Album 17https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/img_0003.jpgSara, Tiny and Mamie, circa 1926Sara, Tiny and Mamie on Strong Avenue, circa 19262011-05-11T15:35:38+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/05/09/wild-indians/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/img_0014.jpgIMG_0014Sara, Buddy Stott and Mamie, Christmas ca. 1925https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/img_0015.jpgMamie, Jessie and TinyMamie and Tiny in their Christmas Indian outfits, with Jessie2011-05-09T13:25:45+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/05/08/fountains-of-fun/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/img_0007.jpgSara and MamieSara and Mamie with dolls2011-05-09T03:07:54+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/05/07/and-mable-makes-four/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/img_0005.jpgIMG_0005Mabel Petty, Mamie, Tiny and Sara, ca. 19282011-05-07T13:20:51+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/05/06/little-rascals-and-rabbit/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/img_0008.jpgFront porch, Strong AvenueJessie, Sara, Mamie, Rena, Buddy and Tiny, ca. 19262011-05-06T12:40:32+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/05/05/bungalow-babies/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/img_0009.jpgStrong Avenue BungalowSara, Tiny and Mamie on the steps of the Strong Avenue Bungalow2011-05-05T12:52:11+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/05/04/bye-bye-buckeye/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/evans-120_0004.jpgMamie and Tiny at Buckeye playhouseMamie and Tiny in the Buckeye playhouse, ca. 19222011-05-04T15:01:43+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/05/02/crisco-connection/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/evans-120_0002.jpgThe Buckeye Oil Mill, 1923Buckeye Oil Mill, ca. 1923https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/evans-120_0001.jpgMamie and Tiny at the Buckeye houseMamie and Tiny at the Buckeye house2011-05-03T10:40:41+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/04/30/threes-a-crowd/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/img_00142.jpgSara, Mamie and TinySara with cinnamon bread, Mamie and Tinyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/img_00141.jpgSara, Mamie and TinySara, sisters and the cinnamon bread2011-05-17T06:13:58+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/04/28/a-strong-start-for-an-april-fool/https://daughterofthedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/evans-140_0002.jpgJessie and SaraJessie and Sara, the April Fool2011-05-03T10:31:10+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/04/27/she-was-interesting-because-she-was-interested/2011-04-27T20:26:38+00:00monthlyhttps://daughterofthedelta.com/about/2023-05-14T05:48:12+00:00weekly0.6https://daughterofthedelta.comdaily1.02023-08-20T02:09:02+00:00