Today, my plans are to link my post to the Friday farm photos over at Fresh From The Farm. Click here and come on over for a visit.
A few days ago, I posted about an old drug-store ledger that I found which showed my granddaddy’s charge account. Today’s post is also about my granddaddy.
I wish I could have known my grandfather. He died two years before I was born. I understand he was quite a character.
Granddaddy was a farmer. He moved the family from farm to farm, sharecropping with different landowners. My mother once told me that he was such a successful farmer that he kept getting better offers, and that’s why the family moved so often. He and my grandma were parents to twelve children. They were typical of the families of that era: simple, hard-working and “honest as the day is long”.
I like the peanut shocks in the background of these photos. With modern-day farm equipment, you don’t see those anymore.
I don’t know who took these pictures, but I’m sure it was someone in our family. Granddaddy probably wondered why in the world they wanted pictures of him in the peanut field.
these days of mine 
Coming from a family of farmers, every spring I want to have my hands in the dirt…not possible living in an apartment. But still, I think it’s in the blood!! And most of Grandma and Grandaddy’s children had large gardens and/or large flower gardens…
Great photos! How fun to have and to look back. Not the same as being held in your Grandaddy’s arms but you’ve got a firm hold of him in your heart.
Great post! How hard they must have worked in those days to feed 12 kids. My dad was the youngest of 12 also. My mom, the youngest of 8. I’m the youngest of 8. I stopped that family tradition in its tracks with zero kids. 🙂
How neat to still have those old photos! Those simple moments are definitely the ones worth holding on to.
How wonderful to see these pictures from days gone by. I know they had to work very hard, but somehow I’d almost like to be living in those days. I’ve always said I was born fifty years too late for sometimes I don’t feel like I fit in with this rush-rush lifestyle. I’m looking forward to more stories.
Once again, the family photos are always great .. He just LOOKS like a hard worker. I’ve talked to people about shocking peanuts, and from what I understand, it ain’t easy… And even if he did wonder why in the world someone took his photo, I’m glad they did …..
I loved playing on peanut shocks when I was a kid!