Sawyer Farm  - Bethany Alabama - Outside of New Brockton

Mary and Mace Sawyer

EACH NUMBER BELOW IS AN AUDIO - Click on each number to hear them:

 1     2     3

4     5     6

James -Mace- Ray- Mary -The Sawyers

         

(Things Mentioned in the Interviews)

Daddy and his parents

7     8     9

    

10    11    12

         

     

13     14    15

    

Granny and James

16     17    18

Edwin Gannon, Jimmy Sawyer and my daddy Ray

Ray and cousin Jimmy Sawyer at the New Brockton speed limit sign

These are solo audio extras: 

Ray:  1     2     3

  

Uncle James and his wife Aunt Forrest serving WW2 in England

James:  1     2     3    4     5     6

My Granny's Family was The Gannons. Her with her brother...

 Mary Gannon, Clifford Gannon, Laura Brown

GANNON FAMILY

Back Row: Sons: Clifford - J.C. - Hugh

Son: Julian - Daughters: Foy - Mary (later married Mace Sawyer, Ray's parents)

Front Row: Grandma and Grandpa Gannon - Daughter: Jenny

Mary Gannon Sawyer 1969 (My Grandmother)

Gannon Reunion 1980s?

Top Row: Oren Bowden (2nd from left), Ray Sawyer(4th from left)

Bottom Row: Lynn Bowden, Claire and Herbert Gannon

Click on Small Photo To Enlarge And See Names and Numbers

22 is my Granny Mary Gannon Sawyer. 23 is my Granddaddy Mace Sawyer, who I never knew. 34 is my Granny's brother Clifford Gannon, who later lived in Cordele, Georgia. 27 is my Granny's sister, Foy Gannon who later lived with her after Granddaddy's death.

    

Original

Around 1948: My parents are the first two in the front row on the left. Behind them are James and his wife

My granny Mary and my mother Maxine

My parents 1948

Gloria Gannon and my mother

Daddy and cousin Lois Sawyer

Daddy's first cousin Glen Sawyer's service station ad

Me and my Daddy

Sawyer Reunion 2010

Top Row: 6,7,8,9, 10th from right: children of Ray Sawyer: Susan, Mark, Scott (recorded interviews), and his two sons Philip and Andrew

Bottom Row: blondes Judy Sawyer Curenton, and her daughter Ashley Curenton Turner (organized the reunion),

James' son Jim Sawyer (5th from right), Amelia Herring Day (4th from right) (wrote book on New Brockton)

 

 New Brockton Downtown Camera 1990s

(A bypass was built around the town, and it is practically abandoned downtown now)