Sister Betty has been posting photos of our Mother's ancestors and speculating about who she looks like in the pictures. When we were growing up, we had a portrait of the parents in this photo hanging on our wall. It was always so amazing to us children, that the woman in the photo looked like an older version of our sister Betty.
This mother is Sarah Lou Coxsey Maples. Standing beside her is our grandmother Gertude Lee Maples Powell. The father is William Burl 'Bee' Maples. Aunt Oma Maples Moore is standing. Sarah is holding John Maples and Bee is holding Aunt Bertha.
My grandfather did not have a good opinion of his father-in-law and my father 'caught' that prejudice, but Daddy looked more like Bee Maples than any of his other ancestors that I have seen photos of. Uncle Turman looked a lot like his father and his Uncle Jesse, but Dad favored the Maples side.
We have a saying in our family about looking like a Powell baby, that is cubby and round with little or no hair. And when hair appears it it thin and blonde. Do the little ones in this photo not look like Powell babies? I think our round little blonde babies are in reality Maples babies.
2 comments:
I would rather look like Sarah Lou than Myrtle Mae.
I bet Daddy looked a lot like John
Maples who died young of 1918 flu.
John Maples cut his foot real bad chopping wood, went rabbit hunting before it healed, took blood poison and died. daddy always talked about john maples and what a great guy he was
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