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| Crossing part of the
California desert #0295 |
Crossing the Colorado River going into Arizona - #300 | Southeast of Phoenix, heading into the Globe mountains - #306 |
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| Entering New Mexico -#307 | Windmills are becoming fewer and fewer over the years - #308 | On the road I noticed a B John Deer like the one I used to drive on the farm - #311 |
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| Juanita Holcomb Bradford, mother of
Duanita Bradford Rich - #312 Roswell, New Mexico |
Juanita Holcomb Bradford, mother of
Duanita Bradford Rich - #315 Duanita is Jenk's aunt |
Kermit Stanley - Oct 2007
Jenk's uncle
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Robena McCoy Tooke
Kermit Stanley
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Kermit Stanley Jenk Stephenson #318 |
Robena McCoy Tooke, Charles Alton Watts, LouAnn Watts Whitworth, Robena Stephenson Watts - #319 |
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Lynette Stanley Smith
Kermit Stanley
Daughter and father - #320 |
Yes, there are snakes on the road to the Afton cemetery. It was not a rattlesnake. - #0368 | Maurice Stanley, Kermit Stanley, Ray Stanley - #0402 |
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Shirley and Jerry Stephenson
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Jenk's sister, Carolyn Stephenson
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Carolyn Stephenson
#0405
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| On my way to Dallas by way of Guthrie, I stopped by this ranch windmill - #0407 | I've always enjoyed since my riding days on the farm - #0408 | Windmills always provided water for the animals in the middle of no where - #0411 |
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Tessa and Brenna Stephenson
Allen, Texas #0412
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Tessa, David Stephenson, Brenna Father and daughters #0413 |
On our way to the Arkansas cemetery, David and I stopped for a visit to the Clinton Presidential Library in Hope, Arkansas - #0414 |
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| Clinton Home - #0415 |
Clinton Home - #0416 | A Clinton Home - #0417 |
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| Clinton Boyhood home - #0418 |
Clinton & Rather - #0419 |
Plaque - #0420 |
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| Clinton Boyhood Home - #0421 |
Presidential Limousine - #0422 |
Cabinet Room - #0423 |
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| Bridge outside the Library - #0424 | Table place setting - #0425 | Maybe a gift to White House - #0426 |
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| Presidential desk - #0427 | Oval Office furniture - #0428 | Oval Office - #0429 |
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| David Stephenson taking his Oval Office picture - #0430 | Oval Office - #0431 | Presidential grounds - #0432 |
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| Presidential circle - #0433 | Arkansas River in the background - #0434 | Presidential Limousine - #0435 |
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| Fundraising brick - #0436 | Surrounding names - #0437 The bricks have been discontinued and removed - replaced with a wall |
The 42nd President - #0438 |
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| Library Name - #0439 | The Presidential Library - #0440 | Presidential capsule - #0441 |
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| Clinton Museum Store - #0442 | Presidential street name - #0443 | Jenk Stephenson at the Clinton Presidential Library - #0444 |
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| David Stephenson at the Clinton Presidential Library - #0445 |
Jenk Stephenson standing in front
of the old Revel, Arkansas store
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The old Revel, Arkansas store that my grandparents shopped at - #0446 |
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My brothers, Tom and David, and I met at a motel in Bald Knob. They had never been to the cemetery and didn't know the location. We knew the bamboo had been removed, because I received a call while traveling that the National Refuge had removed it because it was non-native to the area. |  |
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Storage inside the Revel Store
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Click HERE to see how I found the cemetery in 2004 | The clearing used to be all
bamboo. Tombstones of the Stephenson Cemetery - #0452 |
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| Click HERE to learn more about the Stephenson Cemetery - #0453 | My brother, David Stephenson, at the motel - #0457 | My brothers, David Stephenson, and Tom Stephenson, that met me for the cemetery excursion - #0459 |
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| Tom Stephenson, my brother, we had lunch at a small restaurant - #0460 | Picture on the restaurant wall representing picking cotton in the 1930s. Our grandfather was a cotton farmer - #0462 | Jenk Stephenson, trying to take a picture of a 1915 map on the court house wall - #0467 |
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| Augusta Court House map on the wall - #0469 | The 1915 map showed property locations. It did not turn out well - #0470 | My grandfather's half brother, James Louis Garrett "Jim Garrett", was sheriff of Woodruff County, Arkansas. The picture hangs in the Sheriff's office in the Court House - #0472 |
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| Jenk Stephenson with the only two remaining tombstones. Brother Tom in the distant left - #0485 | Leaving the cemetery behind in October of 2007 - #0486 |
Tom, Gayne Schmidt, David
I discovered Gayne as a Yarbrough
relative in 2004 - #0487
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Gayne Schmidt, Jenk Stephenson
Without her help, I may have
never found the Stephenson cemetery in 2004. We met at her store
in McCroy, Arkansas - #0488
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One of my colleagues at work was the son of one of the famous Platter singers. I was surprised to see their picture on the wall of an Augusta, Arkansas restaurant - #0489 |
Jenk, David, Tom - three brothers
Our other brother Henry lives in
Wisconsin and was not able to be here. #0493
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| One the road to find the way to the cemetery. - #0549 | Follow the sign to the Stephenson Cemetery. - #0550 | The Stephenson Farm is now part of the National Wildlife Refuge - #0551. I have permission to visit the cemetery any time I want to. |
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| I call him Uncle Roland. My grandparents raised him from the age of 4 to adulthood. He lives in Atkins, Arkansas with his wife Jewel. We stopped by for a visit; - #0553 |
Roland & Jewel Waldrop
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Roland - Jewel - Jenk #0555 |
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| On the way back I visited my sister's family in Longview, Texas-a visit to her grave site - #0558 |
Craig Litton with grandchildren -
Shawn and Ashlyn Williamson
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Julie Litton Williamson - Jenk's
niece
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| Jason Litton, Julie Williamson, and Craig Litton (father) #0561 | Jason Craig Litton #0562 |
On the way back stopped at a ranch windmill - notice the worn wood on the sucker rod. #0563 |
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| Notice the method of connecting the sucker rods together as they go deep into the ground - don't drop it - #0565 | Providing water for the animals on the ranch - #0570 | Stopped in Lubbock, Texas to visit my sister, Carolyn Stephenson, before heading home. - #0575 |
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| Carolyn Stephenson - #0576 | Carolyn Stephenson - #0577 | Soon after getting to California we had a French family come visit us - Brieg and Michelle - #0582 |
| Working Windmill | ||
| Unfortunately, I can't rotate it |
