This photo from the late 1940s shows some members of the Pierce family visiting the Faunsdale, Alabama, cattle farm of Don and Hazel Vickers.
From left are Julia Moody Pierce (1886-1965), her son George Carl Pierce (1916-1989) always called Carl, Carl's daughter Carol Ann (b. 1943), her mother and Carl's wife Jeannette Elizabeth Hagen, Carl's father Napoleon Bonaparte "Bonie" Pierce (1880-1964), and Don Alva Vickers (1893-1965), husband of Julia and Bonie's daughter Hazel Lee Pierce (1905-1985).
The Pierce kin visited the Vickers about once a year to get a side of beef to put in the freezer back home in Mobile, Alabama.
Did you and your family visit kin down on the farm? What memories do you have of the visits?
Yes we visited our relatives on the farm. I have such fond memories of helping to move the cows, gathering eggs and attempting to help milk the cows (was never successful at that.) I remember being so afraid of the geese at Grandma's and with good reason. The visit to the farm was the highlight of our summers my entire growing up.
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