Sunday afternoon in Forest Home

Aunt Maggie used to tell me about this picture, and I wish I could remember all that she said.

I do know that this is (supposedly) Daddy Rich and Mama Sheba's first meeting. The Langford boys traveled out to Forest Home, a few miles to the west of Greenville. Arthur C. and Annie McNeil Sims are sitting top center. This is probably their house after church.


Daddy Rich is sitting on the right of the third row, and Mama Sheba is second from the right on the second row. I believe there are two more Langford brothers in the picture, and most of the remaining are the Sims family. They were married in 1908, so I have to guess this picture was taken around 1905-1907.

Jefferson and Nannie's three eldest

These photos look to be from the same photo shoot as this one. (Same clothing, same hat, and same wainscoting on the wall behind them.)


Here's Uncle CA,

Daddy Rich,

and Uncle PA.

Look at the eyes of that cute little boy. I wonder what color they were in real life.

50th Anniversary party pics

A pile of photos from the 50th Anniversary party.

Look. There's the guest book I just wrote about.

"One hundred guests called between the hours of three and five."

The title of this post comes from the last line of the newspaper article on Daddy Rich and Mama Sheba's 50th Anniversary party. This past December, Aunt Nan gave me a box of photos and things, and in it was the guest book used at the 50th Anniversary party.

Let's flip through the pages and see who we might know, shall we? Here's page 1.

I know Ms. Morgan was a good friend of Aunt Maggie's. There's three Sims, who must be Mama Sheba's siblings.


Page 2.

Page 3.

Another Sims. Bonnie Moorer, possibly Aunt Margaret's relative? Paul & Sheila Langford and "Mrs. Percy Langford", the former Ruth Whitehead..


Page 4.

Uncle Shug.


Page 5.

Carl Sims and Fred Sims.


Page 6.

Uncle Bud and Aunt Margaret. Uncle Aura and Aunt Bernice.


And inside the front cover of the book was this little gem.

Nannie Heaton's 93rd Birthday

Here's an article that Cousin Mona found in Aunt Nan's things.

The whole family at Daddy Rich's and Mama Sheba's 50th

The whole family in 1958. Eight children, four in-laws (is Uncle Joe taking the picture?), and nine grandchildren.

Abner F. Langford and Ann Jane Griffin Langford

This is a picture of Jefferson Milton Langford's parents.

Abner F. Langford was born in 1809 in Jones County, Georgia. It believed that he died around 1880 after moving out to Texas with his son, George Blair Langford. He was the sixth child of nine born to James Langford (1770-1854) and Winifred Brady (1775- ).


Ann Jane Griffin Langford was born in 1820 in Georgia. She died around 1870 in Ozark, Dale County, Alabama. She was the sixth child of eight born to John W. Griffin (1775-1845) and Jane Ryal (1785-1860).


Ann Jane married Abner on December 28, 1837 in Crawford County, Georgia.


TRIVIA: Ann Jane's older sister, Mary Polly Griffin (1815-1860) was married to Abner's older brother, Lewis B. Langford (1802-1854) on November 5, 1826 in Bibb County, Georgia.