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Above and Below: Friendship Baptist Church Singing, circa 1898. Bottom far right: George and Molly
Roper.
Above and Below: Friendship Singing. Above left center: Arta Collett Roper Below:
A.E. (Ed) Bramblett and George Bramblett
Below: Second Row far left Dr. James A. Otwell, Sr.,
Second Row Third from Right Arta Collett (Roper), circa 1900.
Above: Mahulda Redd Family, circa 1915 Below: Mahulda Redd House on Roper Road, constructed circa 1848.
Above: Arboth Bramblett Family at the George Roper home, 1927 Below: George Bramblett Family at the George
Roper home, 1927
Above: Ed Bramblett Family, Bobby Tallant, Fletta Bramblett,
Almon Hill, Maude and John Stewart
Above: George Roper Family, 1927 Below: Royston Smity Family at George Roper home, 1927
Above: Mahulda Redd's 100th Birthday Celebration
with 22 of her grandchildern, September 1929. Below: Mahulda Redd's 100th Birthday party
with 300 of her closest relatives and friends at the George Roper home on Roper Road, September 1929.
Above: Closer view of some attendees: Charles E.
Roper at age 9, Almon Hill, Arboth Bramblett, and many others. Below: Mahulda
Redd, Della Martin, Marha Wallace, Paul Martin and Paul's small daughter, making five generations.
Above: Ben Roper House, courtesy of George Emory Pirkle Below: Ben Roper Store, courtesy of George Emory Pirkle
Above: George and Arta Roper on their 50th wedding
anniversary. Below: Charles F. and Rebecca Roper, parents of George.
Above and Below: Charles E. Roper, starting early on
his life with chickens and cows.
Above: Friendship Road Crew, neighborhood volunteers building
and reparing local roads, includes George and Raymond Roper, Hillard Rollins, Ed Bramblett Below: Friendship Baptist Church images from the past 175 years.
Above: Friendship School, circa 1900. Arta Collett (Roper) top
left.
Below: Several pictures of different Friendship school
classes dating from 1915 to 1935.
Above: Friendship School, circa 1915.
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Above: The Hillard and Sallie Rollins House before it fell,
courtesy of George Emory Pirkle
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Below: William Nelson McConnell
Below: Mark and Estelle Rollins Green
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Below: George and Arta with Linton and Bera Groover at the
Roper home.
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Above: The George Roper house, constructed in 1898, as
it appeared in 1975. Below: The George Roper house after two restorations,
the first in 1976 and the second in 2011.
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Below: Some very kind words from my friend George Emory
Pirkle.
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