Upper: Clipping from the Baldwyn Weekly News showing 13 year old Mickey Yarbrough after serving as a page in the state House of Representatives.
Center: Mary Katherine Lindley as a GA officer. Young girl is unidentified. Photo from Betty Massengill.
Lower is one of the better photos of our famous old GM&O railroad depot in an already deteriorating condition in July 1967. Discovered and submitted by Milton Copeland.
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Is the little girl with Mary Catherine a Stovall?
ReplyDeleteGod bless Tommy and the Carnes family. Sorry to hear about his death.
ReplyDeleteI think the little girl with Mary K. is Gina Prentiss.
ReplyDeleteI think it is Regina also.
ReplyDeleteIf common sense had prevailed and money appropriated, we could have had a neat little depot museum. Simon's collection might have been prominently on display there.
ReplyDeleteThe old depot was a busy place at one time and should have been kept in some manner.
Hmmmmmmm.??
Yep ya'll, it Gina Prentiss with Mary Catherine Lindley. Ain't she cute?
ReplyDeleteMickey was a great guy. I was sorry to hear of his passing recently.
ReplyDeleteIt was a big event for a train to stop and stay a while in Baldwyn. I remember quite q few per day with several passsengers.
ReplyDeleteEven when a train just roared through, we would stop what we were doing and count the number of cars and wait to see the caboose.
A military train with army stuff was always intriguing to see.
Mother tells me that when we lived on Latimer Street, she would stand me up in a cardboard box by the window to watch the trains go by. And when we lived down by the milk plant, I would wave to the soldiers on the troop trains. The depot was a magical place with people leaving to go on a short shopping trip to Tupelo or to strange places "up north" to begin a new life.
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