Thank you very much for the Farmerville Gazette web site. Mary Margaret your Down Memory Lane were my footsteps in the 30's. Did you know Stanley Fitzgerald and wife Thelma Grafton?? They were my GodParents.. They kept me in 1929 while my mother was at Ruston having surgery. I started 1st. grade that fall with Mrs. Clarice Thaxton as teacher. She was the best. Hazel Welch Craig..
Hazel---Yes, I very well remember Stanley and Thelma....Stanley was my first cousin (Martha Heard Firzgerald was his mother) and Thelma was a cousin further down the line....Her dad and my mother were first cousins.....Great Aunt Martha Grafton was a sister to my grandmother, Mary Webster Heard. I remember that they told of counting cousinship before they would approve of that two marrying..... Further news on our family. Cull Senn (Annie Heard Senn's baby child) who was ca 83 died the 3rd of February and was buried at Spearsville. Tuesday the 13th , his wife Esther died and is being buried beside him. She was brought to his funeral in a wheel chair and only lasted 10 more days. From Ephraim Q. and Mary Webster Heard there were 32 grandchildren and there are only 5 of we first cousins left. Victor A. LaFave of ElPaso, Tx (Brooksie Mae Heard LaFave) who is 80, Elaine Heard Elliott who will be ?? in March (Charles E. & Pinkie Weldon Heard); then Mary Margaret Selig-Trahan will be 78 in March(Emma/Maria Ophelia Heard Selig) ; Mary Alyce Heard Roberson(same parents as Elaine) who will be 78 in May and my brother Thomas Heard Selig(same parents as mine) who turned 70 last December. mary margaret ----- Original Message ----- From: HAZEL W. CRAIG <hwctodd@aeneas.net> To: <LAUNION-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2001 7:06 PM Subject: Farmerville Gazette url > Thank you very much for the Farmerville Gazette web site. > > Mary Margaret your Down Memory Lane were my footsteps in the 30's. > Did you know Stanley Fitzgerald and wife Thelma Grafton?? They were my > GodParents.. They kept me in 1929 while my mother was at Ruston having > surgery. > I started 1st. grade that fall with Mrs. Clarice Thaxton as teacher. She > was the best. > > Hazel Welch Craig.. >