Great-grandfather William Holloway PETTEY, standing at top left, with other Confederate soldiers. Photograph is hanging at Old Stone Fort in Nacogdoches, Texas. Thank you to the person who advised the soldiers are identified in NACOGDOCHES COUNTY IN THE CIVIL WAR. According to her it has this identification of the gentlemen in the photo:
Seated, left to right: G. B. Crain, Tom Hill, Dick Johnson, R. D. Chapman, and June Harris.
Standing, left to right: Bill Petty, Doc Burrows, Mike Baugh, J. H. Thomas, Bob Moore, John Partin, (T. K?) Cureton.
Wedding photo of George W. BERRY and Cora Alma PETTEY, 1907, Wylma, TX
Berry House, hotel owned by George W. BERRY, located in Tenaha, TX. Photo probably from around 1915. L-R: George W. BERRY, daughters Omie and Sudie (Mary Sue) BERRY, wife Cora Alma PETTEY.
Melody Maids, a girls' band in the 1930's. Cora Alma PETTEY Berry is on the drums, rear left. Sudie (Mary Sue) BERRY is on the bass violin and Omie BERRY is band director, standing front and center.
Sudie (Mary Sue) BERRY on the left, and Omie BERRY
The PETTEY siblings, seated front row (l-r): Dewey PETTEY, Jesse PETTEY, Ollie PETTEY, Eugene PETTEY, Charlie PETTEY, Will PETTEY, Cora Alma PETTEY Berry, Ida Mae PETTEY Waldron. At a PETTEY reunion, Old North Church, Nacogdoches, Texas, ca 1965. Back row, standing, l-r: unknown woman, Harry Gordon PETTEY, brother of Jesse PETTEY, Jr., O.N. PETTEY, unknown man, wife of O.N. PETTEY, Doris MEDLIN (co-author of The Pettey's of East Texas). Remainder on back row unknown, until sixth from the right who is Mary Sue BERRY Balch (sister of Omie BERRY Brewster; they are daughters of Cora Alma PETTEY Berry. To Mary Sue's left (fifth from the right) is her son and only child F. Raymond BALCH, Jr.
The PETTEY siblings, at a Pettey reunion, Old North Church, Nacogdoches, Texas, 1972. Front row, left to right: Cora Alma PETTEY Berry, Ida Mae PETTEY Waldron, Will PETTEY, Charlie PETTEY, Eugene PETTEY. Back row, left to right: Ollie PETTEY, Jesse PETTEY, Dewey PETTEY.
