Legacies

When I became nine years of age, my father concluded that it was best for me to break up this free and semi-nomadic life, and to send me from home to school. I had picked up the rudiments of education in a female school which had been established at home for the education of my two sisters, and which was taught by two Northern ladies, one a Miss Parsons, of Massachusetts, and the other a Miss Draper, of New York. Miss Draper was a sister of Dr.

Senior Class of 1942 Lebanon PA, High School

Melinda Adelaide Dunston, born Jan 18, 1839, Jackson Co., GA

Married Jeremiah Pearson, Feb. 11, 1857, Tallapoosa Co., AL

Married. William J Ponder, Feb 6, 1868, Chambers Co., AL

and again on Sept 14, 1925, Tallapoosa Co., AL

By Bettina P. H. Burns

By: Sandy Williams Driver

One rainy afternoon, I emptied a plastic bag of old pictures onto my kitchen counter. I was searching for a specific photo of an uncle and instead found a piece of history that shaped my mother into the woman she has been her entire life.