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John Gainey and Dora Sloan lived in this house with their family of eight children. The house, built in 1935, was located along the Carolina-Van Buren Road in the Peaceful Valley community. Within hollering distance were the homes of some of Gainey's siblings: Luther, Dee (my great-grandmother), Zadie, and Cliff. Gainey's house burned in 1952, a couple of years after he died. Today, there remains a couple of Sloan descendants within hollering distance of the old homeplace: Zadie Sloan Blake's grandson, Bobby Joe Blake, and Ethel Dee Pennington's granddaughter, Brenda Pennington Gilmore.
If you click on the photo, you can see a woman standing in the bottom left-hand corner, probably Aunt Dora, and there are a couple of children sitting on the front steps.
Gainey's granddaughter, Acel, shared the photo with me. I found the following newspaper item which indicated a fine Sunday dinner at the John Gainey Sloan home in 1946.
Itawamba County Times
March 21, 1946
New Bethel News
Sunday dinner guests in the J. G. Sloan home were: Mr. and Mrs. Woodford Grace and son, Tomasette of Memphis, Mr. and Mrs. Coy Bean and sons, Joel and Charles and Mrs. Nancy Bean of Cardsville. Others visiting were: Miss Clara Nell Pennington, Mr. and Mrs. Luther Sloan, daughters, Ruth and Maecile, Mr. and Mrs. William Newton and children, Mrs. Boyd Allen and son of Aberdeen, Mrs. Elva Burdine, Miss Audie Neal, Mr. J. E. Newton, Mrs. Lawrence Cox, Miss Jessie Ellen Sloan, Mrs. Shellie Lindsey, Mrs. Ogal Sloan and Mr. Aqulis Sloan.
If you click on the photo, you can see a woman standing in the bottom left-hand corner, probably Aunt Dora, and there are a couple of children sitting on the front steps.
Gainey's granddaughter, Acel, shared the photo with me. I found the following newspaper item which indicated a fine Sunday dinner at the John Gainey Sloan home in 1946.
Itawamba County Times
March 21, 1946
New Bethel News
Sunday dinner guests in the J. G. Sloan home were: Mr. and Mrs. Woodford Grace and son, Tomasette of Memphis, Mr. and Mrs. Coy Bean and sons, Joel and Charles and Mrs. Nancy Bean of Cardsville. Others visiting were: Miss Clara Nell Pennington, Mr. and Mrs. Luther Sloan, daughters, Ruth and Maecile, Mr. and Mrs. William Newton and children, Mrs. Boyd Allen and son of Aberdeen, Mrs. Elva Burdine, Miss Audie Neal, Mr. J. E. Newton, Mrs. Lawrence Cox, Miss Jessie Ellen Sloan, Mrs. Shellie Lindsey, Mrs. Ogal Sloan and Mr. Aqulis Sloan.
4 comments:
Mona, my maternal grandmother, Ila Estelle Sullivan Dyer of Friendship Road in SW Marion County would boast she cooked dinner for her "chilern and their chilern" and say, "I'm tellin' you it was a sight for sore eyes". These big Sunday dinners put me in one of the last groups to get to the table to eat when some of the dishes of food were long gone - we didn't care - we younger grandchildren had a pleasure that some of todays children never get to have - having a whole Sunday of playing hide and seek, pop the whip, kick the can (oh, and that huge front yard of pure sand was heavenly to play in bare foot), with nothing but cousins! The covered well house was near by and we could draw a fresh drink when we got thirsty - no, no ice needed for that fresh out of the ground water!
I hope your cousins continue to share photos of family long gone to share with your blogging friends with older brains/minds that need shaking sometimes!
Mona, it wore me out just recalling all the many places to go hide when we played "tag" or hide and seek - whew! I need a nap. . . bettye
Mona, my maternal grandmother, Ila Estelle Sullivan Dyer of Friendship Road in SW Marion County would boast she cooked dinner for her "chilern and their chilern" and say, "I'm tellin' you it was a sight for sore eyes". These big Sunday dinners put me in one of the last groups to get to the table to eat when some of the dishes of food were long gone - we didn't care - we younger grandchildren had a pleasure that some of todays children never get to have - having a whole Sunday of playing hide and seek, pop the whip, kick the can (oh, and that huge front yard of pure sand was heavenly to play in bare foot), with nothing but cousins! The covered well house was near by and we could draw a fresh drink when we got thirsty - no, no ice needed for that fresh out of the ground water!
I hope your cousins continue to share photos of family long gone to share with your blogging friends with older brains/minds that need shaking sometimes!
Mona, it wore me out just recalling all the many places to go hide when we played "tag" or hide and seek - whew! I need a nap. . . bettye
Ohh, how I remember this house , and the loved ones who lived there, my mom's parents Gainey and Dora Sloan.
That's where we all met to play outside with our cousins and friends. The ladies would cook and visit and serve tables of the best food !!! A real treat was sweet iced tea 'cause we didn't have electric power when we lived near , so iced tea was special.
Their home was a meeting place for our families and they frequently had other visitors too.
The generations that have followed still do about the same things, tho, we meet, have reunions, get-togethers and enjoy being together.May it always be so.
Mona,
Just got back from Tootsie's. Momma, Charles, and I enjoyed visiting with JoAnn, Betty Gene, and Tootsie. My, but we are all getting "old". I am making a copy of William Sloan as I type this. I want to send you a copy of a pciture of Ebnezzer Clifton Sloan, my grandfather, for your records. Will try first emailing it. Enjoyed hearing all the news about Chip, Penn, Rebecca, and Allison. Keep up the very entertaining "Itawamba Connections."
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