Family Birthdates

Dear Family: I am sure that many of you like me find it more difficult to keep important dates related to our nuclear family in clear distinction as father time takes back that which we were once blessed with– youth!!! Here is a small way to try to fill the void. Tom Barker (Verner Mae Scott’s …

A Beginning……..

  On September 12, 1903, Mr. Frank Scott, Sr and his spouse, Ms. Martha Collins-Scott observed the home birth of their sixteenth of seventeen pregnancies and named him Frank Jr.. Because of birthing complications, only eight of the total pregnancies survived. Early life in rural Hale County by all accounts was hard with many disappointments …