Month: <span>February 2020</span>

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Google Facial Recognition IDs young picture of Evelyn Theresa…

  • February 27, 2020February 28, 2020
  • by Jim Rungee

This was a picture in a Smith Scrapbook that has no name on it, and was on a random page with other first cousins. I always wondered why it was in the book, and who it might be. It wasn’t until I found some old High School annuals online with pictures of Evelyn that the Google software had enough faces of her to be able to ID the picture as a young Evelyn. I’m embarrassed that I never even considered it to be her, as she never crossed my mind. But as Granny Smith’s first grandchild, it all makes sense now why it was pasted into the scrapbook!

Evelyn Theresa Smith
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New Picture of a young Granny Smith!

  • February 27, 2020February 28, 2020
  • by Jim Rungee

I stumbled across this on Facebook of all places! This was posted by Sandra Ashby Bauer, the grand-daughter of Joe Waggoner, Sallie’s (Granny’s) brother. In the front left is Mary Polly Arnold -Walker. Seated to her left is her daughter Martha Elizabeth (Bettie) Walker-Waggoner, with her children Joe and Sallie standing behind them. This helps to confirm that the picture below that Google facial recognition identified as Sallie is indeed her.

This was all posted in the Facebook Group “Moore County TN Historical Society.” Anyone care to try and help me date it? Polly died in 1914, when Sallie would have been 25. She clearly looks younger than that in this picture.