William and Elva Scott

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This is so appropriate - the boy is barefoot and the girl is wearing shoes & socks. Young William Scott and Marion Elva (Scott) Peyton.

Sep 04, 2014 ·

Allis Davis

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William Scott and Elva Scott

Sep 03, 2014 ·

Daniel Pinna

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Any idea as to the date of this photo?

Sep 04, 2014 ·

Shannon Bennett Garrett

Beautiful

Sep 04, 2014 on

Charlene Feiner

Great photo

Sep 04, 2014 on

Grace Chamburs

I love them.

Sep 04, 2014 on

Marshall Nance

Lady training starts early.

Sep 04, 2014 on

Cheryl Pierce

Her mama didn't want her to have ugly wide feet - obviously! That's what my gramma told me every time I went bare foot!

Sep 04, 2014 on

Dottie Thompson

The original boy of bare foot boy with cheeks of tan....

Sep 04, 2014 on

Genevee Ferguson

Most children didn't have shoes as it was.. they were expensive so my gramma used to tell me shoes on a child in a picture often meant a sign of wealth or they were wearing their Sundays best or none at all

Sep 04, 2014 on

Bruce Batchelor

This is true. I suppose that shoes were bought with a view to handing down as well.

Sep 04, 2014 on

Madrene Snyder White

I ran around barefoot all the time when we lived in California.

Sep 04, 2014 on

Carol Walters

Yep and most times the kids would only get new shoes in the fall for school to restart that is if their parents could afford new ones.

Sep 06, 2014 on

Ann Smith Zachary

Look at the scratches on his little legs looks like mine growing up

Sep 04, 2014 on

Diana Covey Frymyer

Looks like burn scars to me.

Sep 05, 2014 on

Nancy W Thompson

i was looking to , i hope he was not whipped and made thoses sores.

Sep 05, 2014 on

Ann Smith Zachary

Well Nancy that's what I thought but he survived it all I guess

Sep 06, 2014 on

Ann Glover

Some of them looked like bug bites scratched by a kid, and others look like the normal scrapes and all of an active boy.

Sep 07, 2014 on

Ann Smith Zachary

We always had scratches and bruises growing up some of the kids now a days never get one lol

Sep 07, 2014 on

Lisa Abel

Love!

Sep 04, 2014 on

Tess Squint Lawrence

Awww......and you just know this is the very best they had, but look at that little boys beat up shins and feet.....bug bites......

Sep 04, 2014 on

Barefeet Belle

sorry, what is that appropriate? i go barefoot every day from april to october :)

Sep 04, 2014 on

Trudy Smith

I had a great uncle named William Scott

Sep 04, 2014 on

Jillanne Green Lenius

It could be that her shoes are hand me downs or that his Mom didn't want him jumping thru mud puddles,

Sep 04, 2014 on

Paula Spears

my grandma told a story that when she was a kid in arkansas her folks were expecting a preacher from texas was coming to visit for the day.

Sep 04, 2014 on

Paula Spears

The kids had no shoes so they were sent to the barn with sandwiches until they left. parents didn't want to be embarrased.

Sep 04, 2014 on

Joan Pasquarelli

her shoes could also be hand me down and to small for the foot to boot

Sep 04, 2014 on

Robert Jr Coward

que adorables

Sep 04, 2014 on

Stephanie Yarolin

The icons at my church are like that too I noticed

Sep 04, 2014 on

Ina Mae Jones

Adorable

Sep 04, 2014 on

Nancy Marshall

Looks like tom sawyer & becky thatcher! Lol!

Sep 04, 2014 on

Rawicz-Władyka Ewa

Tom Sawyer & Becky Thatcher ;)

Sep 04, 2014 on

Carol Christman

He not happy at all! Probably his feet hurt! Thanks for sharing!

Sep 04, 2014 on

Ina Mae Jones

I loved being barefoot and climbed trees. I skinned and bruised my knees daily. I had long skinny feet had trouble finding narrow shoes by now my feet are normal going barefoot made them strong a foot doctor told me. When I was 15 My dad once said how will you ever get married with all those scares, I said I won't. Lol, still single still barefoot and still climbing ( mountains).

Sep 04, 2014 on

Elizabeth Long

Those scratches on his legs look like mosquito bites.

Sep 04, 2014 on

Bonny Bridgewaters

barefoot is best

Sep 04, 2014 on

Kathy Brown

Love

Sep 04, 2014 on

Bobbie Culpepper

Big bows in her hair.

Sep 04, 2014 on

Rosanne Williamson-wilson

A couple of years ago, my cousin sent me an old photo from around 1920 or our fathers and their sister. They were all dressed up but had no shoes on. They lived in rural Arkansas and guess that was pretty common at that time.

Sep 04, 2014 on

Ann Glover

Yes, many of the rural school pics of the early 1900's in Arkansas had barefoot kids. Not all were barefoot. My grandmother was one of them when she was just a little thing. There were six kids at that time, and a sick and declining father. They made do, and counted their blessings. At times they dug up their meals, and not from the garden. They always had a home and they had a lot of love.

Sep 07, 2014 on

Joyce McCraw McLaurin

Girls have always had CLASS

Sep 04, 2014 on

Linda Beron

how cute!!

Sep 04, 2014 on

Dorothy White Rader

Oh how sad they both look though.

Sep 04, 2014 on

Ann Glover

The boy looks like he is pained to stand still, and the girl's look is hard to decipher. I don't see sadness, though.

Sep 07, 2014 on

Christina Heike

my dad, born in 1901, Pierz, Minnesota . . on a farm . . .said they were so poor he had to wear his sister's shoes to school . . .quit school very early, left the farm and rode the rails as a hobo probably about 1915 . . .

Sep 04, 2014 on

Barbara Rees

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Tom Sawyer and Becky Thacher!!!

Sep 04, 2014 on

Terry Collins

Such a great picture!

Sep 04, 2014 on

Norma Pierce Gilleland

What year. I'm guessing about 1915??

Sep 04, 2014 on

Guadalupe Cuenca Moreno

I do not understand why the baby girl weared shoes and not the boy , sorry .....

Sep 04, 2014 on

Nancy Kellond

Such a great pic!

Sep 04, 2014 on

Lin Calver

Poor wee souls....note how tight those shoes are....the child can scarcely stand straight :(

Sep 04, 2014 on

Sharon Martin

Love these old pictures and the stories.

Sep 04, 2014 on

Martha Prettyman

They were most likely his that he outgrew and passed down.

Sep 04, 2014 on

Lisa DeMarko

I love this picture!

Sep 04, 2014 on

Sharon Rose Mollet Yost

Back then my grandmother said I could not go out of the house without shoes or the neighbors would think we were poor. No matter if they were old, small or big or my brothers old shoes ... we HAD to wear them ... no bare feet EVER outside where people could see you.

Sep 04, 2014 on

Mack Nardus

Bare feet, that were looxury

Sep 04, 2014 on

Linda Lou Williams Jones

How cute!

Sep 04, 2014 on

Eunice McKibben

He looked more comfortable.!!

Sep 04, 2014 on

Carla Gilbert

Well I just love those big bows in her hair!!!

Sep 04, 2014 on

Tess Stamell

Both children look very uncomfortable as if they both have been forced to stand for the photograph. The boy gives the impression that he wants to run off, and even though his legs show his wounds his clothes are not dirty. His hat looks a tad small. Is there a story behind this picture ... there should be ...

Sep 04, 2014 on

Emma Kingree Kearns

Beautiful children!

Sep 04, 2014 on

Victoria Carter

Maybe the shoes were a hand-me-down from him. I got plenty of hand-me-downs growing up and I was glad to get them. Also in summer time we always went barefooted unless we were going to town or church.

Sep 04, 2014 on

Lynn Knockel

Love the photo they r soooo cute

Sep 04, 2014 on

Jay Rosenberg

Also, boys were trained to catch fish and craw daddies in the creak, girls were trained from an early age to catch the eye of boys. Shoes still are a challenge to demographics in our rich by divided country -- as growing up each year required new ones. However, not being the oldest meant, there would fortunately be hand me downs. while it is not a solution, why cant we in addition to teaching the world "3 part harmony", teach them how to make shoes from used tires, etc, as they do in some countries, or gallons of sustainable/ edible algae....

Sep 04, 2014 on

Leigh Ann Mitchell

I have a picture of my dad in a class photo. He's cotton topped, has a set of striped overalls on and is barefoot.

Sep 04, 2014 on

Bülent Yılmazcan

Erkan senin küçüklüğünmü

Sep 04, 2014 on

Diana Covey Frymyer

Take a look at this shins, his ankles, the tops of his feet. That might be one reason he doesn't have on shoes & socks. I know, he's a boy, boy's will be boys, but there could be a reason why he has nothing on his feet.

Sep 05, 2014 on

Ann Glover

He has a lot of insect bites which have been scratched!

Sep 07, 2014 on

Diana Covey Frymyer

When I was a kid, all I had to do was walk barefoot in the dewy grass & it was like I'd been eaten up with something or that I was allergic to something. They itched, oh boy did they itch. I'd scratch & the harder I scratched the better it felt until I broke the skin. Then it was like I was skinned alive. This would go all the way to my knees, all summer long. They couldn't afford shoes for us to wear out in the summer so I was doomed to go this route for years.

Sep 07, 2014 on

Vittoria Saladino

Ma che carini !!!!!!!!

Sep 05, 2014 on

Marylee Gonzales

Beautiful simply beautiful

Sep 05, 2014 on

Pauline Niejadlik

Love the old Picts.So cute

Sep 05, 2014 on

Daniel Saylor

I guess someone gave the girl shoes and socks, brother was not so lucky.

Sep 05, 2014 on

Carol Leigh

They look sad, uncomfortable, not wanting their picture taken. Love his hat, her bows. That is how this story goes, yet so long ago!

Sep 05, 2014 on

Carine Munro

id say the landowners daughter and child of one of his farmers

Sep 05, 2014 on

Mirl Williamson

Love it!!!

Sep 05, 2014 on

John Young

Is that you Earline?

Sep 05, 2014 on

Steve Bigelow

Great!

Sep 05, 2014 on

Marlene Goins-Long

Love this picture!

Sep 05, 2014 on

Denise Marxsen

I still like to wear no shoes.....the feeling of earth below my feet wears well on my memory even now. Dx

Sep 05, 2014 on

Tom Dingess

Shoes for winter and not summer. barefoot was the word kk

Sep 05, 2014 on

Ana Maria Couto

They were very cute

Sep 05, 2014 on

Ana Maria Couto

Sep 05, 2014 on

Sandra Bynum

I agree with one of the other coments . The girl belongs I n. The
big house . The boy is a workers son and a play mate at times with the girl.

Sep 06, 2014 on

Ann Glover

Except they had the same last name.

Sep 07, 2014 on

Ann Glover

I like your version better, Sandra.

Sep 07, 2014 on

Sandra Bynum

Ann Glover it makes for a beliveable story . She looks pristene , neither looks happy though.

Sep 07, 2014 on

Terri Zarra

His little legs look pretty chewed up

Sep 08, 2014 on

Maria Ofélia Pereira Henriques

Such a beautiful photograph!!!

Sep 08, 2014 on

Tommy Vaughn

awesome! Love it.

Oct 29, 2014 on

Allis Davis

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I truly enjoy reading every comment on this photo of my Great Aunt Eva & William Scott. I was blessed to have grown up knowing my sweet Aunt Elva she was a very religious woman who taught me a lot about the Love of Jesus. I am blessed to be a part of her legacy.

Oct 30, 2014 on

Esi Grünhagen

This reminds me so much of a picture I took of my Kids 2 years ago. Amazing

Sep 01, 2015 on

Leah Roediger Torrez

Love the clothing!

Mar 19, 2016 on

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