Throwback
Thursday. These are all my grandfather William Elijah Joseph Petty's
siblings.
1st Row: Dawson Wesley
Petty (1879-1960), James "Jim" Petty (1882-1956), and Ervin Petty
(1882- ? ).
2nd Row: Nancy Jane
Petty (1877-1965) and Sarah Alice Petty (1874 - 1958).
Jim Petty married Lillie Henry. They had nine children. The
three I know of were known for their success and hard work. Their son Glen was a physician in Chattanooga
and lived on Lookout Mountain. He has a
daughter that graduated from West Point and before she took her commission she
and her brother biked from Alaska to Florida.
The Jim Petty family lived on Jim Petty Road, Crandall,
Murray County, Georgia. The last time I
rode by their house, after Jim had died and Lille was living with her son
Carlton and his famiy, the house was stuffed with straw and feed sacks.
Beside Jim's house was a rugged dirt road. The dirt road went into another farm and
another two storied farm house (like Jim's).
This is where his brother Wesley, Nancy, and Alice lived. I used to look forward to our visits, I enjoy
eating lunch with them but disliked the bitter milk (straight from the
cow). Wesley and his two sisters never
married. When they became elderly Alice
died and Nancy had a stroke, then spending her remaining years in a nursing
home. With Wesley living alone the house
burned down taking Wesley's life.
Ervin married a lady who owned a boarding house in Detroit
and spent his life there. As a young man, his parents and siblings had to hold him down while his uncle Dr. William Garrett amputated his frostbit toes. His son
Stanley Petty used to visit the Pettys in Marietta off and on. My uncle Roy Petty told me Ervin's daughter
Inez Petty ran away and joined a circus.
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