To the Wilbourne Clan and Relatives Thereof This is a work in progress....please offer any suggestions/advice. This blog will be available to all family members to add pictures, personal history, family tales, etc. The pictures added at this time can be downloaded by you at any time or sent to a commercial photo site such as "snapfish", Wal-Mart, etc. for printing. I will be scanning in all family pictures I have and hope all of you will as well. If you do not have a scanner or are unable to add them yourself, I can add them for you and return your original to you right away or if you are in the neighborhood you can bring any pictures here and we can scan them on the spot.
Take care all, Tanji Bradley Betsy Wilburn Bradley's daughter
Second row from left: Frank, Sr., Thelma, Annie Way, Lillian, Patrick, Eleanor, Frank, Jr.(aka Philip), LM; Front row from left: Craig, Richard, Betsy holding baby Jerry, and Fred; Douglas not born, yet; taken before Philip shipped out for WW II
This is a picture approximately taken in 1930 based on the assumption that little Thelma is around two years old and Pat is around 4 years old. The original is very small and at first I thought Pat had on glasses; however, after blowing the picture up and getting out a magnifying glass I realized Pat's face across his nose and under his eye is cut up and bruised. This may explain why Pat did not want to show his entire face for this picture.
This is a portrait of Annie Way made about the year 1980. Notice her "Wheeler" blue eyes as my mother, Betsy, used to say as opposed to the "Wilbourne" blue eyes which were a slightly darker shade of blue.
When asked where Jerry's name came from, Lillian said her mother, Annie Way Satterwhite Wilburn, liked the name of a famous actor, Joel McCrae, so she picked it for Jerry's name.