Photos In My Banner


As I sit here typing, a song from Sesame Street is running through my head:
Oh, who are the people in your neighborhood?
In your neighborhood?
In your neighborhood?
Say, who are the people in your neighborhood?
The people that you meet each day.


Only my song goes more like this:
Oh, who are the photos in your banner of
In your banner of?
In your banner of?
Say, who are the photos in your banner of?
The photos that you see each day.




The main color photo was shared with me by my cousin, Cynthia Wilkerson.  This landscape is in our ancestral homeland in Yancey County, NC.   It is one of the barns that belongs to our family and is still standing.  Folks often use it as a landmark when going to one of many Anglin cemeteries in the area. The building is the last old barn before you get to the spring, and turn right up that hill to the cemetery, I believe on Will Anglin Road.  The barn belonged to William Anglin, Jr and his family.  William Jr was my 3rd great grandfather.


On the left side of the banner, is a photo of two men and a young boy.  I do not know who the young boy is so if anyone has any thoughts about who it could be, please email me.  This photo came from my grandparents' collection.  The man in the overalls is "Uncle Charles" Lee Anglin (born 1910) and the man next to him is my grandfather, Clifford Anglin (1914).  Guessing they are possibly in their late teens to early twenties, I estimate this photo was taken in about 1930.  My grandfather left North Carolina around 1934 so I do believe it was taken prior to that time.  

My grandfather and Charles were raised more like brother than cousins in their grandmother Betsy Anglin's home - which is why we always called our cousin Charles, "Uncle Charles."  I will elaborate on this more as my blog progresses and add a link here to bring you to the story.  But know that Uncle Charles took my grandfather into his household when my grandfather was 16.

Additionally, Charles took Uncle Dan into his household when Betsy passed away.  Dan seemed to have been a simple kind of man.  (Oh... now the Lynard Skynard's song is playing in my head!)   I found a picture of him recently in my grandparents's collection.  It was such a sweet picture of a simpler time and place, with a very typical country life look to it.   I just liked it so I made it part of my banner too.

This is the full version of the photo of Uncle Dan (Anglin) rather than the cropped version I used in the banner.



The baby in the carriage... that's my dad, Bruce Anglin.  The notation on the back says "Bruce, 7 months,  Fenimore St, Brooklyn, NY"  where they lived at that time.




This next photo is Laura Anglin Metcalf.  She was my great grandmother, mother to my Grandpa Cliff.   Laura will be revisited in more depth at a later time in my blog.  This colorized version is what my grandparents had displayed on a credenza in the entry way of their apartment which is the photo I now have in my possession.  There are notations on the back about the colors chosen.  Laura had brown hair and blue eyes, as did my grandpa.  I do not know what color her dress actually was, but when color was added to this picture, my grandfather's favorite color, blue, was picked for her dress.  I created a grey-scale version of the picture to make it appear more true to the photography of that time.  Laura passed away in 1929 at the age of 41 so we know this picture was taken prior to 1929.


I have to be honest and tell you I do not recall where this photo of Sarah Catherine "Kate" Edney came from.  I apologize for this, but I do remember seeing it in a family tree in Ancestry.com.  Kate was my 3rd great grandmother and married to Raburn Anglin.   She passed away in 1910 at the age of 76.  I would say Kate does not look 76 in this photo, but I truly do know have any idea of the date of this picture.


Raburn and Kate are my 3rd great grandparents.  There are a number of ancestors that I have gotten to know as I have dug through documents and details.  Raburn is one of the people that I am drawn to.  I think that is because I have this gut feeling that he was similar in personality to my own father - honest, hard-working, and trustworthy.  Heck, we even find documentation that Raburn paid taxes on the moonshine he made!  We will talk much more about Rabe as we go along.

  



William Anglin, Jr - this is where Cynthia Wilkerson and I connect.  He was 3rd great grandfather to both of us... and he was also Raburn's brother.  Yes, you got that right...  my lineage includes a huge pedigree collapse, actually in more than one place.  Both William and Raburn were Confederate Soildiers.  Unfortunately, William was wounded in the Battle of Chickamaunga and died of those wounds about 10 days later.  Cynthia has a wealth of details about William on her blog, They Came to the Mountains.


This is Raburn's Civil War Oath - During the American Civil War, political prisoners and Confederate prisoners of war were often released upon taking an "oath of allegiance."




Isaac Anglin is our family's Patriot. Born about 1760, Isaac fought for three years in the Virginia Line of the Continental Army during the Revolution.  He was in the 2nd Virginia Battalion at the time of his discharge.  Assuming he was in the 3 Virginia Battalion for his entire tour of service, he would have fought at the battles of Brandywine and Germantown and possibly spent the famous terrible winter at Valley Forge with George Washington and Baron von Steuben.




Credits to Cynthia Wilkerson &  Andrew Anglin for the pictures of the headstones.  
Both graciously shared versions with me.

Credit to Karen Parker for Isaac Anglin's discharge document.

Credit to Fold3 for Raburn Anglin's loyalty oath document.


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