This is a picture of Helen Georgia taken around 1900. My greatgrandparents (Harvey Walter Whitfield and Louisa Josephine
Whitley Whitfield) are standing on the left. My grandfather (Henry Lee Whitfield) is standing in front of them. The Whitfield's
lived in and around Jackson County their entire lives. My grandfather is buried in the Howington Cemetery in Nicholson, GA.

This is a photo of the old asbestos mine in Helen taken sometime around 1900. I am only able to identify 2 people
in the photograph. Second from the left is Zachary Logan. He moved to Madison, County Georgia, married Miss Evie
 Bird and lived there until his death in the 1970's. 4th from the right is my great grandfather Harvey Walter Whitfield.

 

Cleve and Callie Wilson were neighbor's of my grandparents in the
Newtown district of Jackson County in the 1920's.

 

 

This is one of the earliest Baird-Ford family reunions.
Our family is still having these reunions yearly in Jefferson.

The Baird family of Jackson County. Jabel Robert Baird was a preacher. He and his wife Hattie are buried at Thyatira Church in Jefferson, GA.

 

Back row: Hattie Ford Baird, Jabel Robert Baird, Marvin Daniel Baird, James Walter Baird (my father), Mattie Lee Baird, Darlene Baird, Robert Lester Baird

Front row: Betty Baird, Jabel Robert Baird Jr. (Bud), Curtistine Baird, Edna Baird, Esther Mae Baird

 

My great-grandparent Joseph Ervin (Joe) Baird and Ida Altoona Cannon Baird and their family around 1905.
Joe was a veterinarian and blacksmith in Jackson County. He died in Commerce, GA in 1935

Back row: Sanford, Henry, Cecil, Jabel (my grandfather)
Front row: Herbert (Hub), Joe E. Baird holding Ernest, Ida holding Haskell, Sarah Leona, Lola Jane
They had two more sons after this picture was taken Fred and John Terrell (J.T.)

 

This photo was taken sometime in the mid 1950's on the John B. Brook farm in Pendergrass, GA. My family rented one of the small houses on the farm and my father worked for Mr. Brooks who was a one time sheriff of Jackson County.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hwy  98  south  of Commerce.  Just  past  the old " Seabolt's Store ".   The
observers  are watching an air show at the old air field that used to be there.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

My parents James Walter Baird and Daisy Lee Whitfield Baird.

This is interesting to see - a wagon pulled by a bull instead of a horse. This is my grandfather
Henry Lee Whitfield as a young teen. He trained the bull to pull the wagon.

Reverend C.I. Whitley was my great-grandmother's (Louisa Josephine Whitley Whitfield's) brother. He
was a traveling preacher in NE Georgia. My mother described him as "the best man I have ever known".

Benton Elementary School 1936. I believe the 2nd from the
 right in the front row is my mother Daisy Lee Whitfield Baird.

The only person in this picture I can identify is my brother David Oliver Baird. Front row 3rd from left.

 

These three photos are of plane crash in Jackson County (Pendergrass area) in the mid 1950's. You can see by
all the people (children included) wandering around the crash site that plane crashes ain't what they used to be.

I would love to know  what these guys are riding.  This
was taken somewhere in Jackson Co. around 1922-25.