Minger Family Photos

Lucy Minger Carroll; Grandma Braxton; Susie Minger Dukes; Caroline M Braxton Minger;
John Malcom Minger (in his arms is Walter Thomas Minger); Lee Minger (Ray Minger's grandfather);
George Washington Minger; Wallace Minger on the porch.

Allen Walker Minger and Mary Lee Hughes Minger

Around the turn of the century, one of the major sources of employment in Holmes County was in the logging industry. These men cut thousands of acres of timber using a hand drawn cross-cut saw and axes. Pictured is a rather typical sawing crew about the year 1910 that includes the following: front row, Henry Watson, Dave Minchew, Jim Minchew, Will

Padgett, Raymond Mauldin, Charles Miles, Charley Hill, Mark Purvis, John Warren, Henry Cook; back row, Charles Covington, Marion Watson, William Hudson, Wess Arrant, Columbus Hobbs, Jim Bowers, Tom Bowers, Riley Wilks, Charley White, Henry Hobbs, John Minger and Math Hobbs.

Contributed by Dr. Ray Minger RaysWord@aol.com
John Malcom Minger and Caroline M Braxton Minger were his great-grandparents. Allen Walker Minger and Mary Lee Hughes Minger were his parents. The others were his great-aunts and great-uncles.

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