Photo submitted by Lyn Smith Simonton Infant, Dorothy Dix. On the matte (cropped from this image) is embossed, “Edgar O. Hurd, Forsyth GA”
Dorothy and Eleanor Dix,ages about 8 and 3 years (Probably at 12 Marshall St, in Montgomery) |
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Married Chiles Harris, August 24,1926 Died, August 21,1981 Buried in family cemetery at Thornfield Dorothy Dix Harris was the sixth child of Albert Sidney Dix and Isadora
Nicoles Dix. She was born on March 20, 1904, in Forsyth Georgia.
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Photo submitted by Lyn Smith Simonton Infant, Dorothy Dix. On the matte (cropped from this image) is embossed, “Edgar O. Hurd, Forsyth GA”
Dorothy and Eleanor Dix,ages about 8 and 3 years (Probably at 12 Marshall St, in Montgomery) |
Photo submitted by Lyn Smith Simonton Dorothy at 12 Marshall St., Montgomery AL |
Photo submitted by Lyn Smith Simonton Dorothy at 12 Marshall St., Montgomery AL
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Dorothy with WWI soldier. “James S. McGruer (?), Dorothy Dix, Nov. 1917”. Grandpa Nicoles on the porch. Granny Dix's shadow in lower left ? |
Photo submitted by Lyn Smith Simonton WWI soldier. “James S. McGruer (?) and
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“The Dix Girls, Aug. 1922” |
Photo submitted by Lyn Smith Simonton |
Photo submitted by Lyn Smith Simonton |
Photo submitted by Lyn Smith Simonton Dorothy and unknown friend.
Chiles Harris retired from from his forty-year career as an English teacher at Sidney Lanier High School, in Montgomery in 1959. |
Photo submitted by Alice Newman Shannon "Little Dorothy" Harris & Dad, Chiles Harris. The photo says "Dorothy Harris and her Daddy when she was about 8 months old". |
Photo submitted by Alice Newman Shannon Dorothy Harris at 8 months old. |
Little Dorothy Harris Spring 1943 Age 15years, 8 months Photo submitted by Frances Dix Chapman |
Mary Chiles Harris Summer 1942 Age 13.5 years Photo submitted by Frances Dix Chapman |
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| Mary Chiles, Betty, Aunt Dot, and Little Dorothy
Photo submitted by Russell Whigham |
Mary Chiles (13.5) and Betty (11.5)
Summer 1942 Photo submitted by Russell Whigham |
During the 1970's, Aunt Dot wrote three books pf poetry: Lift
the Wine Cup High, Plateau Pases (1970), and Born to Dance
(1971). Lyn Simonton has Lift the Wine Cup High, and Alice
Shannon has graciously shared the other two with me.
Dorothy Dix Harris' book of poetry "Born To Dance".
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Born To Dance Back Cover |
Born To Dance Dedication Page
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The only place I can imagine that this many of Aunt Dot's girls would be at one time is at her house, "Thornfield".
There are Christmas trees.
Eleanor died in 1956 (I think), and Ralph III wasn't born until September 1, 1956. Dixie was born on August 31, 1952 and it looks like this is probably her second Christmas (16 months) so I'm estimating the date of these pictures at December, 1953.
Please send any additions or corrections.
Rusty
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| Lila, Dixie, Laura, Lyn, Rusty, Eleanor, Dizzo, Martha, Ginny
Photo submitted by Shirley Brundage Jarrett |
Martha, Dixie, Ruth
Photo submitted by Shirley Brundage Jarrett |
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| Dixie, Ralph Sr. Rusty, Ralph Jr., Dix
Photo submitted by Shirley Brundage Jarrett |
Dixie, Lila, Ruth
Photo submitted by Shirley Brundage Jarrett |
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| Ruth, Nelle, Dorothy, Eleanor, Issalee
Photo submitted by Shirley Brundage Jarrett |
Mary Chiles, Ruth, Betty, Dorothy, and Mavis.
Photo submitted by Shirley Brundage Jarrett |
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| Ginny, Martha, Dizzo
Photo submitted by Shirley Brundage Jarrett |
| On March 11, 2002, I drove in search of the Chiles and Dorothy Harris home known as Thornfield, in the Robinson Springs community of Millbrook AL. I had read in an old newspaper clipping, that the ancestral home was built in 1818 by Chiles' great-grand- father, Archibald McKeithen, when he moved here from North Carolina. The article also mentioned that this was the highest point around. I found a "McKeithen Cemetery" on an Elmore County map and went there first. On the way, I drove by a "Thornfield Drive" Street marker, and a "Thornfield Subdivision" of new homes. I didn't notice the house that was hidden behind the mini-warehouse buildings when I first drove by. There was one Harris grave, but not the ones I was looking for. A grounds keeper told me that these was mostly a black peoples' graves, and suggested that I try the Robinson Springs Cemetery. It didn't take long to see that this was not the place either. I returned to the location of the Thornfield signs. This is when I spotted the house in the photo. I have only a vague recollection of this house from when I was about eight years old. |  |
| The Harris family cemetery plot is on the right side of the house as
it's pictured above.
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