Saturday, April 7, 2012

Nathan Harrell Moran holding a pinwheel



Here's another cute picture of Bub.  This was probably taken about 1922.  I'm pretty sure that's a pinwheel he's holding and doesn't he look adorable in that ruffled shirt?

Friday, April 6, 2012

Ida Morehead Timberlake in her wedding dress


Ida Morehead Moran, known as Teatot, married William Gilmer Timberlake on November 26, 1902, in Dresden Tennessee.  They made their home in Jackson Tennessee where Will was a successful Attorney.

Teatot and Will were blessed with a daughter, Dorothy Louise Timberlake, born in 1906 but she died at the age of four on July 15, 1910.

Of the three Moran girls Ida was the best musician.  She played piano at many functions and probably got her musical talent from her mother, Sophia Riley Gunn, who was Dresden's music teacher and first organist at the Methodist Church.

Ida died June 25, 1936, from lobar pneumonia.

Thursday, April 5, 2012

Carolyn Elizabeth Cobb, circa 1914

This little girl with the enormous bow in her hair is Carolyn Elizabeth Cobb, my husband's cousin once removed.

She was the daughter of Marion Moran of Dresden Tennessee and Charles Henry Cobb of Union City.

She married Joseph Linton Godown of Memphis in 1938.

I love her sideways glance, the absurdly oversized bow and the tassle hanging from her sock. Even though she's dressed so prim and proper her eyes scream imp!

Carolyn was born in 1907 and passed away in 1997.