Picture hidden behind the "Unknown man and woman".
Mar 222011
pmiller
Mar 222011
Thomas Gregory Dabney was born in Raymond, Mississippi to Philip Augustine Lee Dabney and Elizabeth Osborne Smith. He is the brother of our great-grandmother Letitia Dabney Miller. His seven-page autobiography is available in three formats: HTML (best for on-line viewing, 53 Kbytes plus pictures), PDF (best for printing, 55 Kbytes), and Microsoft Word (66 Kbytes) .
The autobiography describes growing up in Raymond and covers only through age 15. Annotation to the autobiography describes his involvement in the Civil War (enlisted at age 16, traveled to Virginia with the 12th Mississippi, discharged for being underage, re-enlisted, captured, and paroled.)
The autobiography includes a 1901 letter from Thomas to the The Confederate Veteran magazine.
Mar 212011
Margaret Brown’s sons. Charles, "Little Bubba", is the sailor. EMM says that Homer, "Big Bubba", is right front, the one apparently holding hands with Charles. The back of the original picture says "Homer, Charley, and Dave [Blake], Chicago".
Mar 212011
1878 photo from Mary Ware’s book "Mexico to Russia", showing Letitia Dabney Miller (wife of Thomas Marshall Miller and daughter of Philip Augustine Lee Dabney) and child. The book describes the picture as the author’s sister with her second child. We now know the child to be Thomas Marshall Miller, Jr., born in 1877, lived only to the age of 25.
Mar 202011
Big Bubba came home from the war with TB and died from the disease in about 1926. EMM, about 13 at the time, remembers the scary experience of having the open casket sit in the living room of 2820 Throckmorton for a week, apparently the custom of the day. PALM remembers Margaret Brown telling about how horrible WWI was for her son, sleeping, eating, and fighting in the mud.
Mar 202011
Tom, Jr. has generated softcopy from the original type-written pages and added a section of footnotes. The document is available in three formats: HTML (best for on-line viewing, 134 Kbytes plus pictures), PDF (best for printing, 175 Kbytes), and Microsoft Word (160 Kbytes) .
Mar 192011
The first two pictures show both sides of a 1919 postcard that Sgt 1st Class Homer Brown (“Big Bubba”) wrote to his six-year-old niece EMM from France. He references “Little Bubba”, his brother Charles. Note that the card has been stamped “Passed As Censored”.
The third picture shows a 1926 card from Homer to EMM. Homer was a resident at the VA hospital in Legion, Texas, and died from TB that same year. He was exposed to mustard gas in WWI and such exposure often led to TB and pneumonia.
