We were raised hearing stories & songs from before the turn of 1900.
The basics of daily life-cooking, gardening,hunting,fishing.....as it has always been done>for survival.
The records for the Cherokee side-were destroyed as history moved generations from state to state. Georgia to N.
Carolina....Tennessee to Mississippi.
Misouri to Arkansas...then to settle in Texas along the gulf coast area.
Annies family is equally as mysterious...the Widgers entered from France to Canada to New York? Her dad left home
at 9-to join a circus? reports from his grandkids>he could still do flips & handstands as an "old" man
in his 40's.
His wife ran Boarding houses-cooked, took in wash wherever he landed a job.
Annie later did the same to keep her large family fed.
Sam was a laborer-in fields it was common to "hire" out children one could
not feed. Later he worked the sawmills which involved traveling to where the work was....which is where he met
Annie.
His first wife- stories say she & child/children-struck by lightening.
One story says a child born harelip?
Annie was his second wife.
The 1952 photos was of their 50th Anniversary.
