When I was young, and until her death, my grandmother, Alice Montgomery Carrico, was the matriarch of our family. My grandfather, Joseph Reuben Carrico died when I was four years old, in March of 1961, at the age of 76. I have no memories of him, just what […]
This photograph was reprinted in The Springfield Sun December 26, 2001. The photograph was taken in 1936 – too early for my mother, Catherine Carrico, and her youngest sister, Mary Alice, to be in school – but four of their siblings, two of my aunts – Beulah and […]
Granddaddy and Grandmother sitting on the porch at their home in Springfield. Today is my maternal grandfather’s birthday – happy 134th, granddaddy! Joseph Rueben Carrico was born January 15, 1885, in Washington County, Kentucky. He was seventy-two years when I was born. Unfortunately, he died when I was […]
My grandmother, Mary Alice Montgomery, was born 119 years ago – December 8, 1893 – in Washington County, Kentucky. Alice was the daughter of Robert E. Lee Montgomery and Frances Barber Linton. She married Joseph Reuben Carrico. They had 7 children: Joseph Robert, Reuben, Mary Beulah, Paul Donovan, […]
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