The Kirkpatrick family on the porch of their farmhouse, c.1910
From The Samuel Kirkpatrick Family by Addie Pettice and Josephine Wade
CHARLOTTE MECKLENBURG LIBRARY
"Our home was never a fine one from the sense of size or appointments, but it was a roomy, old-fashioned house with a big porch around it, and the home was filled with children and a good Mother's love."
Rose Leary Love
Zoel Sylvester Hargrave, c. 1921.
DEE DEE MURPHY.
Right: Hattie Ruddisell, 1938.
GERALDINE JOHNSON BLENMAN.
Alfred Dixon served as the first president of the choir at Seventh Street Presbyterian Church.
FIRST UNITED PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH ARCHIVES.
Right: Miss Poe of Charlotte, c. 1900.
FRANKLIN COLEY.
Constance Morrison Colston and her daughter, Rebecca, 1907.
THELMA M. COLSTON.
The Alexander Brothers, c. 1928. Left to right: Frederick Douglas, Louis Franklin, Zachariah; front: Kelly Miller.
MRS. KELLY M. ALEXANDER, SR.
The Haynes family at the piano, 1949. At the piano is Alice, with her parents Bernard and Mary Grace.
ALICE H. KIBLER.
Right: The Wallace children, 1946. Left to right: Virginia, Floyd, Evelyn.
VIRGINIA KEOGH.
Rosa Catherine "Cattie" Kennedy and Richard P. Bearden were the grandparents of artist Romare Bearden. As a child he spent summers at their home at 401 South Graham Street. These portraits were made before their marriage in the 1880s.
ROBERT JACKSON.
The Phillips family, 1939. Left to right, seated: Edgar, Annie, Mildred. Standing: Robert, Helen, Elbert.
MILDRED ALRIDGE.