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  • This collage of images was sewn together by my grandmother Henrietta. It is a collection of family members and neighbors including Will Burton (the cowboy), her stepfather who lived in Wharton and Fayette County, Texas. The thread lines were the inspiration for the threading treatment in the Frame of Reference exhibition and represents the interconnectedness of family over the generations.
    Grandmother's Collage
  • On December 10th 1893, my second great grandfather Emanuel Roberts made the first purchase of 40 acres for $100 cash in Wharton County, Texas. He went on to purchase 167 additional acres over the next ten years, solidifying assets for his heirs. Our family still owns and fellowships on this land, with family reunions along with a cemetery for our loved ones passed on.<br />
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I highlighted him in this collage to share some of the text found in the deed which described the outline of the land by the height of the Pecan tree at 24". Those trees are at least 65 feet tall 128 years later, and in my opinion demonstrates the strength and significance of his actions many years ago.
    Emanuel Roberts_Pecan Collage
  • Unidentified Kin portrait taken in Gonzales, Texas. Her features are similar to that of my sister. <br />
The full portrait of the woman on the right shows a full dress with cloak. Hints of her large crown of hair are visible under her grand hat.<br />
These two portraits correspond with photograph of Sarah Forbes Bennett of the Black Chronicles from Autograph ABP.
    Unidentified Kin
  • Mollie Hughes Burton (b. 1908), was my maternal great grandmother who lived in Muldoon, Texas. Thankful to have several images of her posing and showing her style. This collage includes text she wrote on the back of one of her photos, "Sour lemon today, o boy. Don't fool with me." those words gave me a sense of her personality and a clue to where my tenacity comes from. <br />
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Will Burton, Jr. was the only son of Mollie and the brother of my grandmother. He wrote these words in a letter to my grandmother during the summer of 1939, sharing his experience of the 4th grade. He died the following year after falling from a tree. These images show both his innocence and mischief.
    Mollie and Will Jr._Collage
  • On December 10th 1893, my second great grandfather Emanuel Roberts made the first purchase of 40 acres for $100 cash in Wharton County, Texas. He went on to purchase 167 additional acres over the next ten years, solidifying assets for his heirs. Our family still owns and fellowships on this land, with family reunions along with a cemetery for our loved ones passed on.<br />
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I highlighted him in this collage to share some of the text found in the deed which described the outline of the land by the height of the Pecan tree at 24". Those trees are at least 65 feet tall 128 years later, and in my opinion demonstrates the strength and significance of his actions many years ago.
    DEEDED_Emanuel Roberts Collage
  • Henry Cox was my 3rd Great Grandfather born in 1860. He raised my Grandmother Henrietta in Wharton, Texas. The collage highlights where his name and others of his family were listed in deeds, birth, marriage, and death records. The right corner is an excerpt from his parents’ marriage certificate, stating that Jacob Cox and Malissa Truesdale were freedman when they married in January 1866 in Fayette County, Texas. The portrait is of Henry and his wife Louisa, married in 1891.<br />
Henry is an example of how the family name is passed down with his to my grandmother. His daughter Malissa was named after his mother. That tradition continued with my grandmother Henrietta passing her middle name of Marie to my mother, my mother passing it down to my sister and she then shared the name with both of her daughters.
    Henry Cox_Collage
  • This pair of images were exchanged by my grandmother Henrietta and her husband C.W. Edwards during World War II while he was in France. Seventeen at the time, my grandmother presented herself as a woman well past her age with her sense of style. <br />
C.W. Edwards photographed his experience in the war, complete with images of his arrival by train, the European countryside, and the aftermath of destruction from bombings.
    Henrietta Cox Edwards_C W Edwards
  • My grandmother inscribed the statement, "Look like Johnnie Hardeson and Look Like Johnnie Hardeman" on the back of both these images. I don't believe the portraits are of the same person but there is a resemblance.<br />
These photographs also highlight the types of chairs used in sitting for a portraits.
    Johnnie Hardeman
  • Henry and Louisa Cox were married in 1891 in Wharton, Texas. Henry is my 3rd Great Grandfather born in 1860. He raised his great granddaughter, my grandmother Henrietta in Wharton. Family lore says she was spoiled by him due to the large gap in age. <br />
Dallas and Malissa Hughes married November 10, 1904 in Muldoon, Fayette County, Texas. Malissa was my 2nd Great Grandmother and daughter of Henry Cox. He passed his mother’s name on to her. She was adopted and raised by the Kelley family in Muldoon after her father was forced to leave the county. The search for my 3rd great grandmother is an elusive one, but one I’m endeared to continue. Dallas’ mother Amandy was a midwife in the small town, delivering almost sixty babies both black and white. <br />
These two portraits correspond with photograph of J.P.L. Davies and Sarah Forbes Bonnetta (Davies) photographed in London in 1862.
    Henry Cox_Dallas & Malissa Cox Hughes
  • Alice Cash is an ancestor from my father's side of the family in Wharton, Texas. According to family lore, she walked with a wooden stick and would knock it against the wooden floor when she walked through my grandmother's house. <br />
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V L Franklin is my great grandfather on my mother's side. He comes from a long line of barbers in La Grange, Texas dating back to the late 1800s. V L had a barber shop on Emancipation Avenue (formerly Dowling Street), in Houston's 3rd Ward.
    Alice Cash_V L Franklin
  • These two portraits are from a collection of cabinet cards from my grandmother's collection. <br />
These portraits were made from Orris Hunt RailRoad Photo Car, a traveling photographer who made photographs in a rail car. <br />
The serious pose and posture of the sitters exudes a stoic countenance upon these unidentified kinfolk.
    Unidentified Kin_Cabinet Cards
  • Fruits of a Family
  • Litany of Love
  • Unidentified Kin of Wharton
  • The Grand Mothers
  • Mrs. Miner
  • Mother and Child
  • Unidentified Kin_Estell and Bog
  • Girther Pendleton_George Taylor
  • The Frazier Family
  • Unidentified Kin
  • Willie Hughes
  • My Frame of Reference_MuldoonTX
  • My Frame of Reference_WhartonTX