Phoebe
Member since Nov 20, 2008
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Re: “The Craver Family's Unusual Birth Announcement”
I found a Horace A. Craver (single) who died in Texas in 1970. This link should work, though you'll have to search the page for the name...
http://files.usgwarchives.net/tx/tarrant/v…
Re: “The Craver Family's Unusual Birth Announcement”
Dang it. The link didn't work.
Re: “The Craver Family's Unusual Birth Announcement”
They got married in 1933 and her maiden name was Spierburg...
http://register.shelby.tn.us/imgView.php?i…
Re: “The Craver Family's Unusual Birth Announcement”
It looks like Horace A. Craver bought 1900 Mignon in 1933 ... and for some reason Dallas S. Craver was unmarried by 1938 according to this:
http://register.shelby.tn.us/imgView.php?i…
Re: “The Epping Way Mystery”
From the Commercial Appeal Streetscapes
EPPING WAY
By Ann Meeks
30 June 1994
The Commercial Appeal Memphis, TN
This street was named for Epping Forest Manor, the 284-acre estate of Mr. and Mrs. Berry Boswell Brooks.
Brooks was a world-famous big-game hunter and photographer, naturalist and cotton merchant. He was born in Senatobia, Miss., in 1902, and his father was sheriff of Tate County, Miss. The family moved to Memphis when Brooks was 12.
He attended Washington and Lee University and entered the cotton business in 1922 as a $25-a-month clerk. He retired as head of his own cotton company in 1972.
Brooks was the first American to be accepted into the International Hunting Hall of Fame, and his animal trophies in the Berry B. Brooks African Hall at the Memphis Pink Palace Museum were the favorite attractions for thousands of Memphians and Mid-Southerners for many years. He remarked about the sadness he sometimes felt in collecting animals but said he tried to make every animal he ever collected immortal by giving it to the museum.
In his later years, he preferred to capture the animals he hunted in photographs and he was a popular Goodwyn Institute lecturer, using his pictures as illustrations.
Brooks and his wife, Virginia, purchased the major portion of their estate - 202 acres - in 1948. Their home was named Epping Forest Manor in honor of Virginia Brooks's ancestor, Col. Joseph Ball, grandfather of George Washington. His Lancaster County seat was named for Epping Forest, the royal hunting preserve, owned by the English Crown. Brooks and his wife kept peacocks and raised cattle on the estate.
In 1972, they sold the major portion of the farm to Cook Investment Properties Inc. and Allen & O'Hara Inc. for development of a multipurpose project, to include single-family, townhouse, apartment and commercial properties, built with an old English theme.
The Brooks property was bounded on the north by James Road, on the west by Highland, and on the east by a north bend of the Wolf River. The new development was named Epping Forest and the north-south street running through the development was named Epping Way. It extends south from James Road and is east of Windermere Drive.
Re: “Should He Stay With Her or Go to France?”
Go to France. I once manipulated someone in a similar way and I regretted it - i cannot imagine how much he does. Things seem so black and white when you are as young as you two are...and that's not the way the world is. She is (hopefully) unaware of her controlling/manipulative behavior and sees it is an either/or choice. It isn't. Life is long and complicated and though she doesn't have that perspective right now, it seems as if you have an inkling. GO. Have fun. Even if you are on pins and needles the whole time worried about what you will return to, the trip clearly means a lot to your mother, and in the end she's far more important than a girl who only seeks to hold you back.
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Re: “The Great Snake Debate”
Ugh. I wish this would go away. It pains me to see animals in distress, as this one certainly is. This is an embarrassment to Memphis.