I have always loved looking through old photos. My Granny had a little shelf in the living room where she kept yearbooks from her high school WF Branch High. I have fond memories of sitting in front of that shelf flipping through the pages to find her and my parent’s photos for hours and hours…
Category: W. F. Branch High School
52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks: Week 10 – Bachelor Uncle
NOTE: I accepted the 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks challenge headed by fellow genealogy blogger Amy Johnson Crow in January 2019. The idea behind this challenge is that you will receive email prompts, a word or phrase, every week, and you find something about your research or family history to write about. I write in…
Education and My Family….Cotton Plant Academy
I have fond memories of my maternal grandmother, Ernestine Wright Hatchett. We called her Madear. My memories of us include being in the kitchen together, of her famous caramel cake, and of her letting me eat shrimp for the first time. I remember that she worked as a cook for the local country club and…
Education and My Family….W. F. Branch High School
Growing up in a small town I would hear some of the same stories over and over again, and the majority of those stories were in some form or fashion about W. F. Branch High School. My parents grew up in the Jim Crow segregated south. So during their youth, there were two schools in…
