Baisden Children

June 3, 2021

Cleta Mae, Paul Arnold, and Jonnie Baisden
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Note to self: please label your pictures while you can still remember who is in them.

No caption. No idea. (Edited to add: this might be grandma Baisden’s best friend Della Hall and her family.)
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…and a reminder: please label your pictures while you can still remember who is in them.

These pictures were in a folder with other pictures my grandmother gave my father years ago, but they are unlabeled, so I don’t know who they are.

No caption. This might be my great-aunt Viola Perkins Haney. (The black corners are on the original; they are not from my scanner.)
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No caption on photo. Nola Baisden with Melvin?, March 1965

My grandmother, Nola Perkins, was born in 1911 and died in 1972. She married my grandfather Pete Sto(y)noff in 1927. Later, she married Jim Baisden. This is the way I remember her. My father took the picture on a visit back to West Virginia.

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