Photo: Glenver Cleo Franks; Winn Par., Louisiana
Submitter: Deborah Burns
Date: 14 Aug 2006
Source: Submitter
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I have attached a picture of my mother, Glenver Cleo
Franks, Shepard & my grandfather, William (Will) James
Franks, that was taken abt 1968, (grandpa died in 1969)
out in front of Houston & Carrie (Franks) Blackstock's
house, mom called them Auntie & Uncle Houston, so did us
kids! My grandfather had a small cabin that was next
door to Auntie & Uncle Houston that he built himself,
not the same side of the house as Woodrow & Vera Lee
Blackstock house was located on. Grandpa also was a
great fisherman. He taught me to fish at his fish camp
when I was just a young girl. He shared the fish camp
with one of his brothers, but I can't remember which
one, either Uncle Lige or Uncle Abe, again, mom's
uncles, we kids just called them what mom did.

I may have a picture of her stepfather, O. L. Long, the
picture wasn't taken when he was married to her mother,
Mae Vaughn Franks, it's a later picture of him. He was
who mom remembers as her daddy, because Odus (Otis)
raised mom until she was about 15 or so, not grandpa.
O.L. Long was married to Gussie Fay some time after my
grandmother's death, (in 1935, mom was not quite 12 yrs
old when her mom died), so we kids never got a chance to
know him.