Treasure Chest Thursday: Mom’s Baby Photos

The photos above are my Mom’s Baby Photos!  Seated are my grandparents, Sherman and Ruth Lawrence Treat.  He is holding my Aunt Johnnie and she is holding my mom, Carolyn.  Standing from left to right are Uncle Leon, Uncle Clyde, … Continue reading

Treasure Chest Thursday: Summons signed by Jesse James JP

  State of Arkansas County of Washington You are hereby commanded to summons Jake Martins to appear be me my office in White River Township on the 2nd Day of March 1882 at 10 o’clock A.M. then ?? to testify … Continue reading

Treasure Chest Thursday: Letter from GL Jarvis to James Stout – 1909

As I am going through my grandmother’s papers, I recently found a letter from 1909.  It is from a GL Jarvis of Oklahoma to my Great-Great-Grandfather James M Stout. March 2, 1909 Muldrow, Okla Mr. James Stout, Carter, Ark. Dear … Continue reading

Treasure Chest Thursday: School Photo of My Great-Aunt Mabel Stout Parsons

I think this photo is of my Great-Aunt Mabel and some of her students in front of a school house. I don’t know what the school was or where, except that if it is my Great-Aunt Mabel’s class then it … Continue reading

Treasure Chest Thursday: Photo of Jonothan Benjamin and Sarah Lydia Gabbard Stout

This is one of the very few photos that were in my Grandma Thompson’s boxes of photos and clippings that had anything written on it to identify the people or places in the photos. It is of my 2nd Great-Grandfather … Continue reading