Forbes Photos

In a post last month I mentioned going to Bakersville, North Carolina, to meet Glora Belle Forbes Jamison and some of her family. Glora recently published a book on David Forbes, Sr., and some of his descendants. After a picnic lunch I posed with Sherwin, Melody (in front), Glora, and JoAnn. Sherwin is Glora's husband; Glora and JoAnn are sisters; and Melody is JoAnn's daughter. I'm a distant cousin!

After they returned home, Glora and Sherwin sent a CD to me with some of the pictures of our branch of the Forbes family which appear in her book. Above, Fanny Forbes is pictured with her son, Matney, and his family. Fanny is the sister of Simon Fannings Forbes, my great-grandfather.

This is Charlie Forbes, another son of Aunt Fanny Forbes, and a first cousin to my grandmother, Cynthia "Jennie" Forbes Penley.

And this is really why I'm doing this post....I just wanted everyone to see this wonderful picture of two of my Dad's second cousins. These girls are Pauline and Mae, the daughters of Charlie Forbes, and the granddaughters of Fanny Forbes. This one might have to be enlarged and framed. I love everything about it - their clothes, their expressions, their postures...it's just beautiful.

This is Gutridge or "Gutch" Forbes, the brother of Simon Fannings Forbes and of Fanny Forbes.

The photo above is very precious. When Tom and I visited this cemetery in 2007 the writing on Sallie's stone had all but vanished. I did a rubbing which came out pretty well, but I was astonished to see this picture of the stone when it was still in very good conditon. Sarah "Sallie" Garland married my great-great grandfather, Joseph Forbes, and they are the parents of Simon Fannings Forbes, Gutch and Fanny, all mentioned above, as well as several other children.

Sallie and Joseph are buried in a family cemetery outside of Buladean, North Carolina, along with my great-grandmother, Martisha Moffitt Forbes, and her father, Fields B. Moffitt.

I'm so grateful to Glora and Sherwin, not only for their hard work on the Forbes book, but for taking the time to send the CD to me.