Photos: Janie Martin

In my research I came across more photos of my maternal great-grandmother, Nancy Jane Jarman. Born in 1892 in Palmyra, Tennessee, “Janie” Jarmon moved to Arkansas in 1910, where she met her husband Jed Martin and had my grandmother, Hester.

I believe these pictures are probably from around that time.

Here is the new photo:

My great-grandparents Jed and Janie Martin, her brother Wingo and his wife Addie (nee Green).

And here is the one that I already had, clearly from the same day:

FRONT - Ethyl (Addie Green’s sister) Janie, a family friend, and Janie’s sister Sally

BACK

Another early photo of Janie with her siblings also emerged. Here her sister Sally is labeled as “Polly” but I think it is the same person. This must have been in the very early 1900s.

Janie, her sister Bessie, brother George and sister Sally (Polly?)

This goes along with another photo I have of the Jarman family. This one probably dates to just a bit earlier:

That’s my grandmother Janie on the far left with the white neck tie. This yold have been in Tennessee.

I it always exhilerating to find photos of great-grandparents that I haven’t seen before, because that is a generation that I still feel connected to. They’re not do far back in time as to feel imaginary or disconnected — these were my grandparent’s parents. There is something accessible in their experience as it touched on someone who was alive at the same time as myself. I think it is this generation that I find myself most fascinated by in my research.