Throwback
Thursday. The last Throwback Thursday I did we looked at William Elijah Joseph
Petty. Today is his wife Frances Viola
Ridley (1885-1968), a.k.a. "Grandma".
Viola was
born in Murray County, Georgia. The was
the 2nd of second of seven children born
to Thomas Jefferson and Maryetta Ludarden Pullen Ridley.
She married
William Elijah Joseph Petty 2 December 1904, in Murray County. They had twelve children, nine that lived.
Her husband
had lung problems and died before about half the children was grown. The grown ones helped her financially and one
daughter, Opal, stayed with her until near the end.
I remember
my uncle Roy telling that she at times overcame odds to vote. He said she even got on the side of the road
and hitch-hiked to the voting precinct one time.
Surrounded by some of her grandchilden
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