Preston McKamie Faggart marries Jane Elizabeth White
Mom is 31, Dad is 30. They had known each other since school days. A lot of love and affection between them. When Dad died in 1991, they they could celebrate 56 years of marraige.
Isabel White Smallridge
The youngest White girl prepares to marry Horrace Hamilton Smalridge,
Jr.
Ellen Richmond White,
second from youngest of the White girls, will marry Lauren Barker Askew, in 1939.
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Willie
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Nana and Pa were married in 1902. Janie Elizabeth Richmond, the youngest Richmond girl, and Robert Chalmers Lindley White were a beautiful young couple that year. Chal, from the Rocky River Whites, as opposed to the Cold Water Creek Whites, was prominent young traveling salesman, with a clothing firm out of New York. In addition, the family farm on Rocky River kept him and his borther busy, and eventially well provided for in land sales.He built a house of two stories on broad lots along newly opened Georgia Avenue, about a mile up Depot Street from the Railroad Station. It was a funny, Dutch Barn shaped house, front and back porch. Four rooms down, two up. Upstairs, the roof line invaded the front bedroom space, with a high dormer, and two windows opening on the porch roof. A large closet, the length of the room and a hugh bed with a high bedboard, and a beautiful shapely bureau with a fabulous post card collection, when I was a boy was the only furniture. There was a fire place, never used in my memory. The house was small, becoming smaller as the family grew: Mama was born in 1904, Willie, Mary William, for our adoring aunt, in 1908, Jack, or Chalmers Lindley 2, in 1910. Bobu and Ibel, Ellen Richmond and Isabel Maury came along in 1913 and 1916. Chal enclosed part of the back porch for a kitchen, which sloped westward. Great counterspace and glass cabinets for storage. A sink that was too low for a normal sized person to handle comfortably, and little space on either side for drainboards. I think the kids did the dishes a lot, but Boo was not very tall, either. But that came along later.
Upstairs over the kitchen was the sleeping porch, with shuttered windows, but no glass, screens added later, on which the children slept. Getting away from the age old notion that night air was poison, Nana and Pa, ascribing to the latest medical advice, let the kids sleep out on that porch. Summer and winter. Mama said that in winter, you would wake up with snow on the cover sometimes. It would blow through the wooden shutters. Warm woolen nighties and thick quilts kept them snug, but climbing out before dawn for school was another thing. The town thought they were crazy, but Mom reports that they never had colds, and survived the terrible flu winters in good shape!.