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Ovella and Bernice Lester 1940s
Ray and Callie Lester ... daughters Ovella and Bernice Lester were first cousins and best friends to my mother Ruby Jewell Berry Maynor."
Photo Submitted by Larry Maynor January 22, 2008 |
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Ray and Callie Lester ... daughters Ovella and Bernice Lester were first cousins and best friends to my mother Ruby Jewell Berry Maynor."
Photo Submitted by Larry Maynor January 22, 2008 |
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Picture of the
Lester House in Eccles, WV 1947
This is a picture of our house in Eccles (WV). My mom (Faye Lester) is looking out the window. Picture was taken about 1947."
Photo submitted by Dennis Lester January 26, 2008 |
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This is my mom Faye Lester. With her is Dennis Lester and Jimmy Lester taken in 1944."
Dennis Lester - Photo submitted Aug 2, 2007 |
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"This picture was taken in 1947. From Left To Right - Basil Lester, Bobby Lester, Denny Lester and Jimmy Lester."
Photo Submitted by Dennis Lester - May 30, 2007 |
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"This is a picture (c1940s) of four of my cousins, Pat, Reba, Sisters, Bobby & Benny Burleson, in front, Brothers."
Photo Submitted by Harold Fleming - November 18, 2006
Addition: "The picture was taken in 1949. Patricia Ann Burleson class of 62 and Reba Jean Burleson, class of 63. Their father was Winifred Garrison (Kenny) Burleson class of 35, Bobby and Benny Burleson, sons of Robert Paul Burleson a 39 graduate of Trap Hill High School." -
Submitted by Harold Fleming - November 24, 2006 |
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"This is a picture (c1940s) of my Grandfather W. G. (Jake) Burleson, I have no idea where it was taken at or where. He, my grandmother & family lived on Old Eccles, He fired the boilers at the mines. My mother was Bessie Burleson Fleming."
Photo Submitted by Harold Fleming - November 23, 2006
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"Dennis; From left to right, Harold Fleming (me), Donnie Barker, the pony, forgot his name, Sambo Barker (nickname), & John Velton Barker, my best friend. The picture was taken in # 3 Hollow in Eccles, to the left and up the hill is Allentown, & to the right & up the hill is school house hill. The picture was probably 1947 or 1948."
Photo Submitted by Harold Fleming - November 18, 2006 |
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This is Mauhee Nidiffer. She graduated from Trap Hill in 1942 and went to work at a Munitions factory in Maryland and was killed in an explosion at the plant. Photo circa 1940.
Photo Submitted by Boyd Ballard - April 9, 2003
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This is ...Drema Gaye Spencer, .... the young lady in the back is Mary Elizabeth Spencer. Their Niece Jenny L . Graves sent you a picture of her mother and their sister. If you would and have time she would be able to tell you the proper name. circa 1940's
Photo Submitted by Boyd Ballard - April 9, 2003
Update: "The answer to the question of which Spencer girl is in the photo w/ Mary Elizabeth Spencer, is Drema Gaye Spencer. She is my mother. ............My father, Charles A. Haley grew up in Eccles too. His father William H. Haley ran a store & a sawmill during the 30s-40s. That is also the time frame of the Spencer photo". Thank you, Bill Haley - June 14, 2003
Update: "FYI: The picture on your site is my aunt Dreama Gay and my mother Mary Elizabeth Spencer" Elizabeth Wilson - May 27, 2003
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This a pic of my Great Grand mothers brother (Robert Harold Light) and what he did as a small boy to help during WW2.
Submitted by Michelle Plumley August 30, 2003
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Picture taken at the Eccles Boy Scout building that was across the field from our house along route 3. The scoutmaster is John Cormack, the scout on the left is Allen Croft and I (Ivan A. Lowery) am the scout on the right. The time frame is in the mid 1940's. -
Submitted by Ivan A. Lowery, Captain - Bedford Life Saving Crew Bedford, VA August 31, 2003.
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