“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
St. Luke’s African Methodist Episcopal Church (around 1938)
Mary Decoursey Slaughter with Laura Etta Slaughter
Byrd, Ponder, Slaughter Families (1954)
The First Baptist Mount Zion Church (about 1890)
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
Rev. William Parker (age 30)
Ellis Lee, Angeline Williams, Andy Jackson, and Della Smith (about 1922).
Clara Bell Colley and Elizabeth Colley
Alice Sallee Ruff
William Ponder Jr, Shelton Ponder, Joyce Ponder, John Ponder
Shelton Ponder (1960)
Liberty Friends of Distinction: Vassie Willis, Sue Tag Irvin, Goldie Prince, Ella Mae Hinton, Francis Pearley McGill, Flora Hopes, Ruth Pearley Stevenston, Delcia Slaughter
Rollie Humphrey
Katie Brooks
Garrison School Class of 1913: Dr. Seymore Pearley, Earl Bryant, Richard Waller, Ralph Tyrees, Aletha Houston, Clara Gantt, Katie Brooks
Laura Etta Slaughter
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
Garrison School (about 1930)
John Ponder
Lucy Colley
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.
Ethel Gay
Clarence Parker (at piano) and his ragtime band
Charlie Lee
James Brooks
Mary and Sam Houston
Katie Brooks at the ribbon cutting ceremony of Brooks' Landing
Miss Amy Monroe Baskett
Rev. William Parker (late 70s)
Garrison School (about 1880)
Garrison School (1905)
Lorena Ponder (1914)
Garrison School, about 1883
William Ponder, Sr.
Mary McShear, Pearl Gantt, Lillian Gantt, Martha Bailey
Nancy Ponder and James Ponder at The Wiggle Inn
Prominent African American community leaders participate in a Martin Luther King Jr. Day parade
Clara Bell Colley with students at The Garrison School (1950s)
Professor James Arthur Gay
Hazel Monroe
Martin Luther King Jr celebration
Anna Lorena Houston
Aileen Gans and Marion Pearley
Professor James A. Gay
Garrison School reunion and parade (1983)
Chris Weston and Rosa Patterson
Cathy Family reunion
Bill Lewis, "the official coon hunter of Clay County"
Arbelia Dorsey
Slaughter Brothers: Charles, Robert, William, and Edgar
Columbus "Lum" Dorsey
Charles Houston and Flora Dorsey
Charles Houston and Ella Houston Murray
Elvira (Ella) Houston
James (Jim) and Mary Houston (man in bowtie unknown)
Otis Bird
Jim and Mary Houston
Kenneth Houston
The wedding of Sam Houston and Mary Helen Woods-Harris
Jesse E. Dodd, Sr.
Anna Moore
Garrison School Reunion
Marion Lee Pearley
Robert Slaughter
Viola Mae Kidd Mabery