When we finished up at the cemetery, we drove back to Mayview, which is rich with childhood memories for Dad. His uncle, grandparents and great grandparents lived there, and his family moved there when he was in fourth grade. He attended country school there and walked the very roads we traveled.
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| Site of the school house with little outbuilding still standing. Located at the corner of Wheatley Rd and Houx Rd. |
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| Wheatley Road to the school house. |
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They walked from way beyond where you see the road in the background. ( in every kind of weather - uphill both ways!!) ;o)
Actually, sometimes he and Marion rode horses or ponies that Uncle Doug let them use. Sometimes they would walk to the intersection of Hwy 40 and Houx Road, and meet the teacher who had a car and would drive them the rest of the way.
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| This MIGHT be Uncle Doug's old farm, south of Mayview, where we had a family reunion in 1956, but it was not a welcoming place, so we did a "drive by" photo shoot. |
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| SIBLINGS. Gilbert, Margaret, Doug and Robert |
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| Gilbert, Hal, and Bobby Lee 1956 |
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| The town of Mayview. |
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| Dad saw his first movie (a silent film) projected on the outside of this building when he was visiting Uncle Doug. |
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| The Lankford home is long gone, but I have a feeling the land remembers... as does my dad. |
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