ANCIENT DAYS IN AUGUSTA

Left to right-
Fred Patterson - Berry Benson
- Pauline - Lewis - Cousin
Mollie - Eunice Cates - Olive -
Mama - 318 Bay Street
[Loose Photographs Collection
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“Just above Aunt Charlotte
lived Aunt May who used to
tell Brier Rabbit stories to me
and my youngest sister, Lewis.”
(p.6)

“In about two short blocks we
come to the Patterson’s.
Charley, the druggist, Josh the
mail-carrier, Fred the secretary
of the Mayor, when his side
was “in”, and Jack”, (p.68)

The young lady standing on the right
is identified as Mary Whitehead. Will she
grow up to be Charles Benson’s teacher?
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“I do remember being presented to Miss
Whitehead, a smiling, elderly lady of meager
build; and of my mother’s telling me to be a
good boy; while Miss Whitehead led me to a
seat with Will Walton of lower Reynolds St.
This was the Sibley School…” (p.26)