I found this picture is Frances’ collection.  I think this was taken on their property near Cohutta, Ga.  The guy on the left is Thomas Jefferson  “Tom” Petty, the oldest male of my mother’s siblings.    The guy on the right is either the Leonard (the youngest brother) or Roy, the brother up one notch.

Tom married Mary Jo Johns from nearby Calhoun, Georgia.  They had no children.  Tom was a cabinet maker.  They mostly moved around near Dalton and Chattanooga.    Once they moved to Marietta and joined the Baptist Church, near us on Manget Street.  There we learned they were gospel singers.  They moved back in just a year or two.

This is interesting: when the family was young they moved to Gillette, Wyoming, to Homestead.  That is where my mother Ethel America “Janie” Petty was born.  Living a pioneer life was too hard  on the family.  They moved back East.  The mother (Viola) took the females and youngest males back on train.  Tom, his brother Wallace, and their father William Elijah and their belongings returned east in their horse drawn wagon.   That would have been Quality Time!