Sarah Searches her Roots: photos

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30 January 2023

Favorite Photo 2/52

The second prompt for the 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks challenge is "Favorite Photo". Below is one of my favorite photos. It is of my younger sister, Amanda Jolene Curran, my great-grandmother Troy Waller Bussey, and myself. I love how we are all smiling.

I love that I had the chance to be with my great-grandmother when I was a child, I know that everyone is not afforded that opportunity. I remember spending the night with her and her taking me on the bus in Atlanta. I remember the smell of bacon and eggs cooking and biscuits baking in the morning when I stayed with her. I remember her telling me stories about people in our family. I remember her hugging me and letting me sit in the chair with her. I'm so blessed to have these wonderful memories.

19 November 2014

Wordless Wednesday...Jackson Monroe Laycox and Bonnie Swafford

Jackson Monroe Laycox (1877-1942) and Bonnie Fevel Swafford (1893-1972)
Married 27 May 1909, Monterey, Tennessee
They had 7 children.
These are my husband's Great Grandparents, the grandparents of his mother.

12 November 2014

Wordless Wednesday...with a few words. Troy Waller Bussey

Troy Waller Bussey (1909-1991)
My Maw-maw (Great Grandmother)

This is one of those photo booth photos. My grandmother has the original and I took a scan of it during one of my visits back to Georgia. This is my great grandmother Troy Eugene Waller Bussey. She told me once that she she was named after the doctor that delivered her. She was the second of the nine children born to Charlie Henry Waller and Ina Myrtle Brown and the oldest of the girls. I remember her very well. She lived in Southwest Fulton County near the Lakewood Fairgrounds. She took me on my first ever bus ride. We took the bus to Candler Drug store where she could show me off as her great grand daughter and to buy me a milkshake. She told me lots of stories about her childhood, that I wish I could fully remember. I miss her all the time. She passed away when I was 14; she had Alzheimer's disease.

11 November 2014

Veteran's Day...Remembering the Veterans in our Family Tree.

I'm proud of the long history of military service that my family contains. I'm listing below the direct line members of my combined tree that I have discovered that served in the military. There are likely many more that I am not aware of as well as uncles and cousins. As I learn more I will add their names here.

I'm starting first with recent service since I have photos of these. Then starting with the Revolutionary War and working forward. Thank you for all your hard work and sacrifice!