3rd Sunday in May,Decoration Day,Memorial Day up in the country as I always heard it called is tomorrow .
At Bethel/Graham,Alabama.
The little country Baptist Church were Grandpa Smith and Uncle Bill both had been preachers at Bethel East.Grandpa at the old Church,Uncle Bill at the new one.Momma,her brothers and sisters rode to church in a horse drawn wagon.Story is Momma who when she was a little girl was given a sack of biscuits while she sat behind the pulpit when her Daddy preached to keep her quiet.
The white sand of the grave yard across from the Church will blind you on sunny days.Lots of my kin are buried there.Grand parents,aunts and uncles.On Decoration Day families bring fresh flowers for the graves of loved ones.
All day church and singing plus my favorite thing of food on the grounds take place.A smorgasbord of culinary delights. A fat boy like me idea of Heaven on Earth.
It has been years since I've been but precious memories stay with me.
These photos are from May 1963 of Grandma and her kids,Momma is the short one on the far right.
Click on photo for larger view.
Next photo is my aunts and uncles.
Last my 1st cousins.
At Bethel/Graham,Alabama.
The little country Baptist Church were Grandpa Smith and Uncle Bill both had been preachers at Bethel East.Grandpa at the old Church,Uncle Bill at the new one.Momma,her brothers and sisters rode to church in a horse drawn wagon.Story is Momma who when she was a little girl was given a sack of biscuits while she sat behind the pulpit when her Daddy preached to keep her quiet.
The white sand of the grave yard across from the Church will blind you on sunny days.Lots of my kin are buried there.Grand parents,aunts and uncles.On Decoration Day families bring fresh flowers for the graves of loved ones.
All day church and singing plus my favorite thing of food on the grounds take place.A smorgasbord of culinary delights. A fat boy like me idea of Heaven on Earth.
It has been years since I've been but precious memories stay with me.
These photos are from May 1963 of Grandma and her kids,Momma is the short one on the far right.
Click on photo for larger view.
Next photo is my aunts and uncles.
Last my 1st cousins.
