Wordless Wednesday

Throwback Thursday

My Great-great Grandmother, Mary Graybeal Jones and my great-great grandfather John Jones.  He was her third husband and a captain in the Confederate Army

 

This is my grandmother, Mary Elizabeth Perkins Holdaway as a young woman at her home in Volney, Virginia.  Her father was a prosperous store owner.

My grandparents Mary Elizabeth Perkins and Roscoe Gordon Holdaway at their wedding in 1907

My grandparents in their mid-sixties.(Above)

My parents Bill Swain and Kathleen Marie Swain at their wedding June 29, 1945

Linda Swain Bethea First Grade School Picture 1956

 

 

 

 

 

 

Linda Swain Bethea 2015

Pictorial Family History

Bill and Kathleen Swain’s wedding photo, June 29, 1945.  Roscoe and Lizzie Holdaway early marriage.My maternal grandparents, Roscoe and Mary Elizabeth  Holdaway with their children, then elderly.  Pictured above, paternal grandparents Eddie and Mettie Swain and their young family.  Next several of their childre, then finally, Mettie, much later in life.