William Roswell Osborne and Lula Jackson Osborne Family Page
by Tom Osborne ([email protected])
William Roswell Osborne and Lula Jackson Osborne Family Pageby Tom Osborne ([email protected])
| This is Grandaddy and me in 1935, probably taken on a Sunday afternoon after church. Grandaddy would be 49 years old. This is also the way he dressed to go to work at the lumber company. You can't see it here, but he usually had the stub of a cigar in the left side of his mouth or between his middle finger and index finger of his left hand. I marveled that he had it there so often, he had a notch in his fingers. This is looking at the front of the garage, which was to the left of the house in the previous picture and only about 50 feet from the railroad. |  |
There's that cigar! This is Grandaddy and his youngest sister, Lillian Jane Steimer, "Aunt Lilly", who lived in Rhode Island, in the front yard in the summer of 1939. Those are the wooden lawn chairs that the grown-ups alway sat in; there were several doubles and a few singles (this was before they invented plastic).
Most of Mama and Grandaddy's family in the summer of 1939. Grandaddy would be 53 and Mama would be 51. The adults are, L to R: Homer Smith and his wife, Ellen (Smoot) Smith (Ellen is the daughter of Maude Ann Osborne Smoot, Grandaddy's sister; either Fairy Smoot, Ellens sister or Ann Osborne; Mary L., Carl's wife; Aunt Lilly; Dorothy, Elizabeth, and Sue; Mama Osborne; Carlos Boggess, Elizabeth's husband; Bill and Louise, with Louise holding William R. III, who was born in April, 1939; and finally Grandaddy, with cigar.. see, I told you! The kids sitting in the chairs are Tom, Carol, and Bob. Carl took the picture.
This is Bob, Carol, and Tom on the same afternoon in the summer on 1939. Tom is sitting on the fender of Daddy's first new V8 ford, a 1939 model. In the distance is the highway going over the railroad bridge. The driveway to Grandaddy's house is just this side of the highway.
Mama and Grandaddy's four grandchildren at the time, with dog Mickey in the background.
| This is Mama Osborne with Jim sitting in her lap, Bob on the left and Tom with the cap pistol. Since Jim looks about 1 year old, the picture was probably taken in the summer of 1941. In the background is the bridge over the railroad. We often went up under the bridge on the very left, on the side of the embankment, searching for soapstone, which is good for carving. However, if a train came we had to get down quickly because the trains were steam engines and would fill the underpass with black smoke. |  |
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