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    1. Unidentified School now Identified!
    2. Karen Rice
    3. Hi gang, We had an exciting thing happen this weekend. Remember the school photo Bobby Bayles submitted in which the school and year were unidentified, but the names of all the students were written on the photo? A lady in Phoenix, AZ, who descends from the Nolans was able to get her aunt to identify the school and the year! I enclose a copy of her e-mail to Bobby, which I've also appended to the original text file describing the photo. "Hello, B. Bayles, Your unidentified school is Antioch School, in or near the community I've heard referred to as "Nip and Tuck". My mother, Hettie (spelled "Heddie" in the photo) Jane Nolan Stradley, is in your photograph--the photo with Ira Aulds on the back row--of the unidentified Union Parish school. Mother is shown on the Front row, standing (although she's apparently seated on something) and is wearing a big white bow in her hair. Three of her siblings, all now deceased, are also pictured. (Nettie Mae Nolan, Dave Nolan and Bob "Bo" Nolan.) Mother and Bob started first grade the same year, 1918, when she was barely seven years old--in 1918. Their younger sister, Bessie Louise Nolan, started first grade the following year; however, she is not pictured, so the school year of 1918-1919 is established. I talked to Aunt Bess (married name Cartlidge), who now lives in Dumas, Texas, and she remembers the school very well. Thanks for submitting your photograph. It has given many family members a glimpse into the past that we'd never have known without your gesture. Chloe Stradley Webb Phoenix, Arizona" Karen Mabry Rice, USGenWeb Archives Coordinator Union Parish, Lousiana http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/la/union.htm

    08/12/2001 05:16:36