William Hayne Waring. My paternal great-great-grandfather.
John Dawson Waring, Sr., with his daughter Laura Lu Waring Bruton and (unidentified). My paternal great-grandfather. Taken at Windy Hill Farm, probably late 1940s.
John Dawson Waring, Jr., in his AEF uniform. 1918. My grandfather.
My paternal grandparents with my great-aunts and uncles. Front: Laura Lu Waring Bruton, Helen Barritt Waring, William Hayne Waring, Tom F. Reese. Rear: John D. Waring Jr., Marion Waring Reese, Frances Carson Waring, David Dearden Bruton. Taken in the living room at Windy Hill Farm, spring 1954.
Windy Hill Farm, my paternal grandparents’ home outside Comanche, Texas. This is how it looked when we bought it, about 1932. Note board-and-batten construction and only one story.
Windy Hill Farm, about 1933. The house exterior has been covered with shingles, a half-story has been added and the large porch on the south has been constructed. My uncle and aunt are playing on the front patio area, my father is beside them holding a dog.
John Dawson Waring III, known as Dawson to the family. He was my uncle. Mid-1930s.
Flavia Martha Waring, known as Martha in the family. My aunt. Taken about 1947.
My father holding me, late 1957.
Four generations of the Waring family. Rear: Sam Waring, Joe Waring. Front: Frances Carson Waring, holding Nathalie Waring, her first great-grandchild and only great-granddaughter. Austin, Texas, spring 1987.
Robert Hood and Julianne Ashberry Tate. My maternal great-great-grandparents. Photo dated “1892” at foot.
J. F. Tate’s general store. 106 N. Austin St., Comanche. Taken before 1903. John F. Tate 8th from left, leaning against awning post, George F. Tate 4th from right, leaning on post.
Children of Robert H. and Julianne Tate, ca. 1948-49. My great-grandfather, with my great-great-aunts and uncle. L to R: John Franklin Tate, Jessie Cornelia (Aunt Babe) O’Dell, Frances (Aunt Fanny) Dunlap, Eveline (Aunt Ev) Stanton, James Henry (Uncle Henry) Tate.
Nima and George Preston Tate, 1938. My maternal grandparents. Taken in the back yard at home, 1212 E. Walcott St., Comanche.
Preston Tate in his Knights of Pythias robes. Probably 1920s.
Floss Tate (Mrs. J. V. Carter), probably 1930s. My maternal great-aunt.
John M. McArthur family, ca. 1897. My maternal great-great-grandparents. Standing: William Clements, Annie Virginia, Alfred James, Fannie Salinia. Seated: Ada Birdie, Kezia McWhirter, J. M.
Alfred and Tavia McArthur, ca. 1898. My maternal grandmother's parents.
Alfred J. McArthur, ca. 1897. On the reverse, in Tavia’s hand: “This is the way he looked when I fell in love with him.”
Tavia Haygood McArthur, ca. 1958. Probably taken in her living room, N. Page St. in Comanche, for her eightieth birthday. This is the only great-grandparent whom I remember.
Nima McArthur (Mrs. G. Preston) Tate, ca. 1920. My maternal grandmother.
Ava McArthur (Mrs. M. E.) Gore, late 1940s. My maternal great-aunt. Taken at home, 505 E. College St., Comanche.
Martha Campbell (Mrs. O. M. Carson). My paternal grandmother’s mother. Taken in Atlanta, possibly about the time of her wedding in 1899. Hand-tinting instructions in Frances Carson Waring’s hand on reverse.
Otis Mills Carson. Before 1900. My paternal grandmother’s father.
Frances E. Carson, about 1906. My paternal grandmother. Extensive hand-tinting instructions in Martha Carson’s hand on reverse.
John Hazard Carson, from an oil portrait. My great-great-great- great-great-grandfather.
Joseph McDowell Carson, from an oil portrait. My great-great- great-great-grandfather.
Maria Jonasdotter Åkeson and children. My wife's great-great-great-grandmother and family. Front: Mathilda, Lovisa, Maria, Anna. Rear: John, Anton, August. Taken in Visseltofta, Sweden, before their emigrations to America (in stages between 1880 and 1894).
Thilda Swenson Åkeson and children, about 1917. My wife’s great-great-grandmother and her family. Front: Ruth, Thilda. Rear: Judith, John Albert, Clara, Agnes. Probably taken at Woburn, Mass.
My wife’s maternal great-grandfather and his family. L to R: Selwyn Harrison Graham Sr., Warren Graham, Florence Graham Cronin, Maude Smith Graham, Melva Graham Higgins, Malcolm Harrison Graham, Selwyn H. Graham, Jr. Probably taken at Burlington, Mass., late 1930s.
