This was how my beautiful Mother looked at the age of twenty. The picture was taken in Montgomery, Alabama before she was married. She is the daughter of John Lee Andress and Linnie Elmetta Lester and wife of Lloyd Benjamin Kendrick, Jr.
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at Nell Andress in Montgomery, Alabama USA
Portrait photographs and paintings of our loved ones and ancestors.
Before photos we had paintings of family members - most usually these were reserved for the well off. The era of modern photography began with the daguerreotype, in 1839. Since the advent of photogr...
The 1930's were a decade of severe stress: the Great Depression, the Dust Bowl, the rise of Nazism. But it was also the end of Prohibition, the beginning of the change of land management (poor farm ...
Alabama also known as the “Heart of Dixie" joined the union as the 22nd state in 1819.
The region that became Alabama was occupied by aboriginals as early as some 10,000 years ago. Europeans reached the area in the 16th century.
During the first half of the 19th century, cotton and sl...
I live in Florida and am researching the following Surnames: Andress, Arkes, Aubuchon, Barteau, Day, East, Janeau or Johno or Jano, Kendrick, Keeven, Lester, Layton, Maddocks, and Martin, Rhame or Remy as the main ones.