LLOYD'S  PHOTO  ALBUM

This is a Photo Album of selected Pearson and Layton personalities, the family of Lloyd Pearson. The Photo Album of Ellen's family can be viewed at Ellen's Album.

All contents copyright (C) 1998. Lloyd Pearson. All rights reserved.  

This is my mother, Cora (Layton) Pearson and her children in 1948. Dad, Charles Harvey Sr., died in 1946. A sister, Cora Nathalia, died in 1940 from celiac disease. From top left: Charles Harvey Jr., Victor Graham, Floyd, Lloyd (twins) and Donald. From bottom left: Barbara Bee, Dixianna, mother Cora Ella, Magdalene Violet and Hazel Maureen (renamed Heather Maureen).

  My father and mother, Charles Harvey PEARSON Sr. and Cora Ella LAYTON, taken in 1918 shortly after their marriage in 1917. Dad is in the U. S. Army uniform while serving in France during World War I in the Forward Evacuation Hospital.  

  This is a photo of Lloyd's Father and Mother, Charles and Cora (LAYTON) PEARSON, taken soon after their marriage in 1917, in Locust Grove, OK. Charles worked on the KATY (Kansas, Atchison and Topeka) Railroad when first married, then went into farming near Tulsa in northeastern OK. Their marriage produced 10 fine children, 5-boys and 5-girls; and 28 grandchildren. The family sold the farm in 1942 and moved to Port Hueneme, CA where Charles worked at the local Navy base during W.W.II. Charley died at the young age of 57, leaving 6 school age children in his wife's care. Cora was a housewife and home maker until W.W.II, when she worked for the Navy until the war ended.

   The PEARSON men served their country in times of great need, from the Revolutionary War to the VietNam action. Here is a composite graphic of my father and his five sons who entered the military services of their country. The father of these boys, Charley, was in the Army during World War I in 1918, serving as a medical corpsman in France with Base Hospital No. 108, treating battle wounds and illness of the soldiers. A history of this unit's activity can be viewed at BH-108. His older sons, Harvey and Victor, served in the Army during World War II in 1942-45, both seeing extensive battle action against the Japanese troops in the south Pacific. Dad's three younger sons, Floyd, Lloyd and Donald, served in the Air Force during the Korean Police Action of 1950-54.

  This is a picture of grandfather and mother LAYTON (WRIGHT), taken at their wedding anniversary in 1936 held at their daughter's place in Tulsa, OK. They were in their 80's on that date.

This is a picture of me and my wife (Lloyd and Ellen) taken in 1967 just before our marriage. We both at that time worked for the Federal Aviation Agency for 7 years. This photograph was taken in Mays Landing, New Jersey, the home state of Ellen. We now live near Sacramento in bliss retirement. Both of us are involved in genealogy, Lloyd is doing the Irish research with Ellen Swiss. In addition, Lloyd is restoring 2 antique automobiles; a 1931 Model A Ford, and a 1970 Fiat Sport Spyder.

This is a picture of us with our children, Lynn and Charles. The photo was taken in 1985 when we lived in Temple, Tx. Lloyd worked at Fort Hood as a civilian engineer for 15 years. Lynn now lives in Florida with her husband and 2-children. Charles attends college in Sacramento.

  This is the farming homestead where I spent eight years of my pre-teen youth, a most enjoyable time of my life. The house had  2-bedrooms with a small living room and combined kitchen-dining room. The house accommodated 10 Pearson family members. The outhouse was near the small brown shed seen in the foreground. The place had no running water, and for cooking and bathing, water had to be drawn from the well seen in the lower right of the photo. Clothes washing was done outdoors summer and winter. Water was heated in a large cast-iron kettle using wood for the fire. Dad farmed a 400 acre farm using teams of horses until the last two years of our living there when he purchased a new John Deere tractor in 1939.

  This is a photo of my Dad and his beloved team of horses taken in about 1919 during haying season in Oklahoma. Dad truly loved his horses, treating them like a member of the family. He had at different times owned and cared for race horses used in the local holiday races, and a huge Belgium horse used as a 'stud' for the local farmers.

   This the John Deere tractor that Dad purchased in 1939. He lost two work horses to lightning strikes during the winter. He asked the Collinsville, OK bank for a loan to buy additional horses to work the farm preparing the land for planting the spring crops. The banker said, "NO", but that he would loan him money to buy a tractor. The banker proceeded to explain to my dad the advantages of owning a tractor to that of a team of horses.

  This Steam Engine Tractor with the complementary Grain Thresher was used on Dad's farm to thresh his grain crops; wheat, oats and barley.

This drawing depicts the gathering and threshing of the farmer's grain.

This is the 1936 Chevrolet truck which carried the eight Pearson family members to California in 1942, where Dad worked in the Naval Base.

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