Francis Marion and Laura Ann Arp Gaddis
Francis Marion and Laura Ann Arp Gaddis
Group 18

Photo Credit: Jim McDonald
The date of this photo was around 1970-1971.
The place would have been Gastonia, Gaston County, NC.

Francis Marion Gaddis and Laura Ann Arp, who belong in group 18. Marion Gaddis was the son of James William Harshaw Gaddis. Marion was born in Dahlonega, Lumpkin County, Georgia and moved with his family to Cherokee County, NC as a child in 1891, just before the death of his mother, Anna Bruce Gaddis.  His father, James William Harshaw Gaddis, was the son of William Isham Marshall Gaddis  Laura Ann Arp was the daughter of William Alfred Lucius Arp and Mary Ann Kimsey.