Brother Sam and Dad pictures
Posted by Pete | Posted in News | Posted on 25-02-2010
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I ran across a picture of my brother Samuel E. Hester and my dad, Daniel W. Hester, given to me by a cousin last year. I wanted to share them with you….They are Pickens County Alabama born and raised….Born there….lived there….buried there….And I loved them both dearly…Sam’s family own several acres of the original homestead of Middleton Hester’s from about 1855….double click on the picture to increase its size…..
Pete,
Thanks for the view of this very early picture of Sambo and Uncle Web. I don’t believe that I have ever seen a picture of Uncle Web that is this old (when he was this young). I know I have never seen a picture of Sambo at such a young age. This picture must have been taken before he joined the Navy. I know absolutely nothing about Sam before he went into the Navy. He is mentioned several times in my Mother’s and Dad’s wartime letters; but, of course, there are no pictures. Growing up in Coal Fire, I don’t remember seeing any pictures either of Uncle Web or of Sam in Mother’s entire picture collection prior to the time that Sam joined the Navy. The earliest is a picture of Sam in his Navy uniform (probably about the time he was in Navy basic training).
Please clarify! Is the place where Joyce is now living near the state line just off the 82 highway a part of Middleton Hester’s original homestead? I’ve always wondered why Sam and Joyce bought property way over there after their house in Coal Fire burned. Thanks for sharing this picture.
Thanks, Errol. This was taken before Sam joined the military.
He owns property down the Coal Fire to Carrollton highway. He has a house trailer there and a couple of fish ponds. It is where the Hester homestead was located, about 2 miles south of Coal Fire. Sam bought the place over in Ethelsville after the fire and he (his family) still owns the land in Coal Fire just east of the church. Sandra gave me several pictures that her Mom had last summer and that picture of Sam & Dad was among those…..Pete
Pete,
I knew about the property on the Carrollton highway south of Coal Fire, but my Dad always referred to that property as the old Blanton Hester place. I always assumed that was Uncle Web’s Dad’s name. I had never heard of Middleton Hester. That is the bit of info that threw me. I knew that Sam and Joyce had acquired the Blanton Hester place sometime time after they returned to Coal Fire from their brief stay in Indiana, but I didn’t know that he had subsequently developed the place by building the fish ponds nor had placed a house trailer on it. Were they built as cat fish ponds with the intent of raising cat fish commercially, or were they just brim ponds for pleasure fishing?
I imagined the place as somewhat the way it looked when I was a kid with an old rundown homestead frame house on it and with the property rapidly returning to the way it was when the Choctaw roamed that part of the country several centuries ago. Now I dream of returning to our place in Coal Fire after it has returned to the way it was when the Choctaw roamed it, building a log cabin there and living the sunset of my life as in the dream; but, oc course, Marina was not privy to the dream, and is not that enthusiatic about it. I doubt if it will ever happen.
Who was Middleton Hester anyway? Was he your Dad’s grandfather and the original homesteader of the property back in the 19th century?
I mean your grandfather: your Dad’s father.
ok, I can understand the confusion. The lineage is, Middleton Hester, The orginal homestead, next John Middleton Hester, then Jesse Blanton Hester, then Daniel W. Hester (who never owned that property) and Samuel E. Hester who owns 40 or 60 acres of the original homestead. I am not sure of how much he owned, but at least 40. Charles (Dutch) still has some of it and Aunt Idella (who lives in Tucson) still own some of it.Anyway, thanks for the comments. Pete
Remember the picture well, It’s a good picture of both of them.
Havn’t seen a copy of it in years. Thanks for posting it.
And thank you all for your prayers.
Nephew, good to hear from you…Glad you are out and about…You take care of your self and don’t be lifting those grand children for a few days….see you, Uncle
Hello, I accidently found this site and would love to correspond with any relatives of John Middleton Hester as I am a decendant. He was my gg grandfather – I decent down from John Middleton to William Reed Hester to William Jesse Hester to my mother Winnie Jean Hester. William Reed move to Texas between 1895 and 1899. Please email me at paularuder@msn.com