Memories of Frances Roberts Miller from Malakoff, Texas
Frances Roberts Miller in her late teens..
Papa Pettigrew
Caption On Picture: Grandma & Grandpa Roberts Mother’s Comments: All I know is that’s Grandma & Grandpa Roberts, and I don’t know who that man is. The picture looks just like Grandpa. He always had a big old handlebar mustache. Grandma always had a grin. I don’t know how she put up with all she did. They had Aunt Johnnie & her kids most of the time as Uncle Jim worked out in the oil fields. Grandpa would bust out and say “I gray you’d better close that door.” I don’t know whether he ever said anything at all to me, but he never said anything like that to me because Mother saw to it. I never gave them any trouble at all. Mac: Mother ment the man and women on the left side were grandma and Grandpa. the man on the far right she didn't name.
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Caption on picture: Miss Dora & Papa
Caption on picture: Miss Dora & Papa Mother’s comments: That’s Papa and Miss Dora standing in the shade. I wonder whose car that was. Looks kind of like the one Buddy & I went on our honeymoon in. Mots wrote that on the picture.
Caption On Picture: Uncle John & Aunt Nora Locklar, Miss Dora, Papa Pettigrew
Caption On Picture: Uncle John & Aunt Nora Locklar, Miss Dora, Papa Pettigrew Mother’s comments: I guess that was probably when they brought her (Grandma Pettigrew) down to live with Papa and Miss Dora because Uncle John didn’t want to keep Grandma Pettigrew any longer. She was driving them crazy I guess. There was Papa, a widower, and they brought her down to live with him. She was something else. There’s a picture in here of her somewhere. The picture looks like it was made in front of Mother and Daddy’s house; there’s Mr. Chapman’s barn.
Mother, Francis Roberts Miller, in middle of photo; Mommy, Mildred Pettigrew Roberts, back on left side; Carol Miller Hudson and Bryan in foreground left side. Location is our family house o England street off hwy 175 East in Athens. Mac: Christmas of 1969 was the first year after I (Mac) had come home from Japan and the U.S. Air Force. I was so glad to be home and the family was glad to have me back. The Christmas was almost like I had never left home. The tree, the family, the presents, the love, were all alive and well just where I had left them when I went to Japan. I doubt anyone who has never been overseas can appreciate the feeling. Anyway, this group of photos was taken Christmas morning December 25, 1969.
This would be Bryan Hudson, Carol, my sister's son.
This is "Mamadaddy", Elmer Roberts, my grandfather. He loved Christmas almost as much as us kids. He and Mommy, Mildred Pettigrew Roberts, would get up early Christmas morning and drive over to our house in Athens from Malakoff so they could be there when we opened the presents.
Left to right is Jim Hudson, Carol Miller Hudson, Bryan Hudson, Buddy Miller, Francis Miller, Jim Miller, Mommy (Mildred Roberts), and Mammadaddy (Elmer Roberts). I took the photo.
Left to right, this is Mac K. (Buddy) Miller, Jr.. may dad together with Bryan Hudson and Jim Hudson his father.
The youngest child always gets the most attention at Christmas and our house was no exception. This is Bryan Hudson.
I'm sure I took this shot even on black and white film because of how much I miss the fireplace while I was in Japan. The fireplace was always a triditional part of our Christmas.
Caption On picture: Granny Peggy (Pettigrew), Elma Frances, Polly Maguire. The side of our house. Mother’s comments: All I know about this photograph is that’s Granny Peggy and Polly Maguire at the side of my house and that was a canvas we could let up or down; that was an open porch at the time. We looked like sweet little angels.
Caption On picture: Granny Peggy ,my grandmother..(Francis Roberts Miller)
Caption On picture: Granny Peggy ,my grandmother..(Francis Roberts Miller) Mother’s comments: That’s my grandmother. I don’t remember her real name. Before she married it was Bogan. Bless her heart, she died in her 40s; she had an enlarged thyroid tumor; a goiter? The other girls came down here and took her to Dallas and had her operated on; she didn’t even know she was going to have it; they said she lived for a year choking and finally choked to death. They said they did something they weren’t supposed to or did something wrong. I remember asking Mother one time—Mother, wasn’t there a casket in our parlor one time? She said, yes, Granny Peggy was here when she died. I was 4 years old when she died. One time when Granny Peggy was at our house, I did something I wasn’t supposed to do and Mother said come on, I’m going to take you to the bathroom. Granny Peggy spoke up and said—Oh please, don’t spank her!
Caption On picture: Daddy (Elmer Roberts), Aunt Hattie, Grandpa (Daddy’s Daddy), Grandma (Daddy’s Mother), Aunt Johnnie, Uncle Edgar, Aunt Grace. Mother’s comments: Aunt Johnnie, Grandma, Grandpa, Aunt Hattie (Grandpa’s sister), Daddy (Elmer), Uncle Edgar, unidentified girl, and Aunt Grace. I don’t know when it was taken, but Daddy was pretty young. I guess that was the part of the Roberts family that was there that day. I guess they’re all dead now.