“Everybody has a legacy. Everybody was known to someone, loved by someone. These souls aren’t gone. We know right where they are. They’re here. No dust hides their glow in the road.” — Shelton Ponder View fullsize St. Luke’s African Methodist Episcopal Church (around 1938) View fullsize Mary Decoursey Slaughter with Laura Etta Slaughter View fullsize Byrd, Ponder, Slaughter Families (1954) View fullsize The First Baptist Mount Zion Church (about 1890) View fullsize Football Town Team, organized by Arthur Willis in 1915. Top row, left to right: Thomas Helmon, Snake Shepherd, Pete Stewart, Elza Boggess, Dave Jackson, Chester Dudley. Bottom row, left to right: Lewis Willis, Ralph Hine, Andrew “Babe” Dorsey, Arthur Willis (coach), Elisa Slaughter, Homer Porter, Jim Robinson, and (unknown first name) Washington View fullsize Rev. William Parker (age 30) View fullsize View fullsize Ellis Lee, Angeline Williams, Andy Jackson, and Della Smith (about 1922). View fullsize View fullsize Clara Bell Colley and Elizabeth Colley View fullsize Alice Sallee Ruff View fullsize William Ponder Jr, Shelton Ponder, Joyce Ponder, John Ponder View fullsize Shelton Ponder (1960) View fullsize Liberty Friends of Distinction: Vassie Willis, Sue Tag Irvin, Goldie Prince, Ella Mae Hinton, Francis Pearley McGill, Flora Hopes, Ruth Pearley Stevenston, Delcia Slaughter View fullsize Rollie Humphrey View fullsize Katie Brooks View fullsize Garrison School Class of 1913: Dr. Seymore Pearley, Earl Bryant, Richard Waller, Ralph Tyrees, Aletha Houston, Clara Gantt, Katie Brooks View fullsize Laura Etta Slaughter View fullsize Liberty Athletic Club Team: Arthur Willis (coach), Thomas Kidd, Russell Shepherd, Babe Dorsey, Sterling Singleton, Thomas Willis, Pascal Stewart, Snake Shepherd, Leo Jackson (manager). Sitting, left to right: Elmer McGinnis, Dave Willis, Edward Slaughter, John Duncan, Elza Boggess, Buddy Willis, Pete Stewart, Ewing Cassall. The team went undefeated for 10 years View fullsize Garrison School (about 1930) View fullsize John Ponder View fullsize Lucy Colley View fullsize St. Matthews Commandary Knights Templar of Liberty: Nelson Waller, Walter Monroe, George Goff, Fred Douglass, William Capps, Richard Waller, Thomas Davis, Perry Thompson, Mosses Ellett, Martin Earl, Henry Edwards, and George Johnson. This drill team is pictured at the rear of the Sandusky School in 1922 after winning the state first place award. View fullsize Ethel Gay View fullsize View fullsize Clarence Parker (at piano) and his ragtime band View fullsize Charlie Lee View fullsize James Brooks View fullsize Mary and Sam Houston View fullsize Katie Brooks at the ribbon cutting ceremony of Brooks' Landing View fullsize Miss Amy Monroe Baskett View fullsize Rev. William Parker (late 70s) View fullsize Garrison School (about 1880) View fullsize Garrison School (1905) View fullsize Lorena Ponder (1914) View fullsize Garrison School, about 1883 View fullsize William Ponder, Sr. View fullsize View fullsize Mary McShear, Pearl Gantt, Lillian Gantt, Martha Bailey View fullsize Nancy Ponder and James Ponder at The Wiggle Inn View fullsize View fullsize Prominent African American community leaders participate in a Martin Luther King Jr. Day parade View fullsize Clara Bell Colley with students at The Garrison School (1950s) View fullsize Professor James Arthur Gay View fullsize Hazel Monroe View fullsize Martin Luther King Jr celebration View fullsize Anna Lorena Houston View fullsize View fullsize Aileen Gans and Marion Pearley View fullsize Professor James A. Gay View fullsize Garrison School reunion and parade (1983) View fullsize Chris Weston and Rosa Patterson View fullsize Cathy Family reunion View fullsize Bill Lewis, "the official coon hunter of Clay County" View fullsize View fullsize Arbelia Dorsey View fullsize Slaughter Brothers: Charles, Robert, William, and Edgar View fullsize Columbus "Lum" Dorsey View fullsize Charles Houston and Flora Dorsey View fullsize Charles Houston and Ella Houston Murray View fullsize Elvira (Ella) Houston View fullsize James (Jim) and Mary Houston (man in bowtie unknown) View fullsize Otis Bird View fullsize Jim and Mary Houston View fullsize Kenneth Houston View fullsize The wedding of Sam Houston and Mary Helen Woods-Harris View fullsize Jesse E. Dodd, Sr. View fullsize Anna Moore View fullsize Garrison School Reunion View fullsize Marion Lee Pearley View fullsize Robert Slaughter View fullsize Viola Mae Kidd Mabery