Granddaddy's Transportation

These are Granddaddy's horses and his carriage (reportedly, there is also a picture somewhere of these horses pulling Granddaddy's hearse).

The other two are  from a book I have entitled Cars of the Fabulous '50s.  (Isn't anyone curious why I own a book about cars?)  Anyway, Grandmother and Granddaddy had matching Dodges with the pushbutton shifter. (See picture to the right)

Hers was pink and white, his solid black. I'm not at all certain that the year was 1959, but the black one stayed

around long enough for me to drive it.


I'm pretty sure Uncle Kenneth wound up with the black one in 1978.

They were very cool cars.  But were they any cooler than the white horses and the carriage?  Not so sure. I love them both.

Thanks to Sue for sharing her picture of the horses and carriage

Uncle Jakie

Today, I began sorting the pictures I scanned at Mama's week before last. This was one of the first I encountered - it's Uncle Jakie as a baby!!

You may remember that Granddaddy was married to Ruby Linwood Dodds and together, they had two children - James D. Dunn and Dorothy L. Dunn.

This picture is of JD Dunn (baby) on his maternal grandfather's lap, with his great grandfather, Frank McElroy seated to his left. That's Granddaddy standing.




Because this was a little hard for me to piece together, I've included a piece of the family tree below. If you click on the image, you can view it full-size.

The Little White House

Cindy had a great picture of her as a baby with Granddaddy. I checked with Mama and confirmed that this picture was taken in the sideyard of the little (and I do mean little) white house we lived in when both Cindy and Rose were babies. Because you were both so little when we moved to "New Eddyville", putting your picture in context of that little house may give you a new perspective. I remember this furniture. I have it associated with "Diana's Flowers". Mama speculates that is because the furniture and the sign for her business were in the same yard.


Uncle Kenneth and Aunt Katherine lived in the little white house before we did. They moved out and onto Granddaddy's farm. We moved in and lived there until the TVA made Barkley Lake, about 1963 (I was in third grade). It was when we moved to New Eddyville that we transferred our church membership from the Baptist Church in Old Kuttawa to Eddyville First Baptist.


Can you see the reflection in the glass on the coolers Mama had on the front porch for her flower business?


This picture is of the yard on the right side of the house. Don't know if you can see, but there is an electric fan on the picnic table. The door you see in the block foundation led into the basement. The house only had one bedroom, so when company came for an overnight visit, they slept in the basement. My recollection of that basement is that it was more of a cellar than anything else. (Rose, maybe that's where your "cave" impression comes from! LOL)

Since this post began with Cindy, it's only fitting that it end with a picture of her. Cindy and Uncle Hershel. This picture has our car in the background, and at the corner of our property, beside the car, was a sink hole. The sink hole had, what were in my 6-yr-old opinion, beautiful orange day lilies growing in it. I was afraid that if I ever fell into the sink hole that I would wind up somewhere close to China or die or something else that would be equally horrible.