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Circa 1885 George Montgomery Sarrett This photo is a tintype, an early photographic process which did not include the means to make copies. From the collection of Martha Crenshaw "Aunt Mattie" Sarrett. |
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1892 George Montgomery Sarrett
Portrait made by A.W. Judd, 815 Market St., Chattanooga, TN. From the collection of Martha Crenshaw "Aunt Mattie" Sarrett. |
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| 1892 Mattie Sarrett
Martha Crenshaw "Aunt Mattie" Sarrett was born Nov 28, 1891, never married, worked as a nurse and nanny all her life, and died May 22, 1978. She is buried with her mother and father in Cassville Cemetery in Cassville, GA. It's likely this photo and the one just above it were made during the same visit to Chattanooga since both are marked A.W. Judd. From the collection of Martha Crenshaw "Aunt Mattie" Sarrett.
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1895 Clifford Connor Sarrett
Cliff Sarrett was born Mar 30, 1895, married Lucile Carlisle in 1920, worked as a maintenance engineer in Alabama, Chicago, and Atlanta, and died Oct 10, 1949. From the collection of Martha Crenshaw "Aunt Mattie" Sarrett.
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| Circa 1905 Church Ladies - Our grandmother, Elizabeth "Bettie" Pittard Sarrett, far right, her daughter, "Aunt Mattie" Sarrett, far left, and Bettie's sister-in-law, Ollie Strozier (wife of James Dillard Pittard, Sr.), center. Others are unidentified. This photo and the one immediately following appear to have been made on the same day. From the collection of Martha Crenshaw "Aunt Mattie" Sarrett. |
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Cassville Methodist Church as it appeared in 2003. |
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| Circa 1905 Cassville Methodist Church, Bartow County GA - Seated on the steps of the church, Aunt Mattie Sarrett, center, has her hand to her face. Her first cousin, Paul Pittard, is the boy wearing shoes. On the back row with her head turned is Ollie Strozier (wife of James Dillard Pittard, Sr.). Others are unidentified. From the collection of Martha Crenshaw "Aunt Mattie" Sarrett. |
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Circa 1910 Martha Crenshaw "Aunt Mattie" Sarrett & Ollie Strozier
Ollie Strozier (seated) became Mattie's aunt when she married James Dillard "Uncle Jim" Pittard. From the collection of Martha Crenshaw "Aunt Mattie" Sarrett.
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Circa 1913
Clifford Connor Sarrett
Thought to be about 18 years old, this is the only known portrait of Cliff and was perhaps a gift to our grandmother, Martha Matilda Morris Sarrett [Underwood Boyd Goff].
Contributed by Shirley Underwood Davidson
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Circa 1915 George Montgomery Sarrett
From the collection of Martha Crenshaw "Aunt Mattie" Sarrett. |
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| Circa 1917 Soldiering with Sticks - Based on the dough boy in uniform at far right, this group is thought to be World War I trainees. Anticipating America's entry into the war, young men who registered for military service commonly drilled with sticks instead of rifles. Clifford C. Sarrett, identified near top left, registered for the World War I draft in June of 1917. From the collection of Martha Crenshaw "Aunt Mattie" Sarrett. |
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| Circa 1917 Auntie Get Your Gun - With the target pointed out (possibly by Ollie Strozier), Aunt Mattie Sarrett, pictured in the middle, takes aim. Others are unidentified. From the collection of Martha Crenshaw "Aunt Mattie" Sarrett. |
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| Gun Totin' Gal with Beaus - This one appears to have been made on the same day as the one above. "Aunt Mattie" Sarrett is on the left. From the collection of Martha Crenshaw "Aunt Mattie" Sarrett. |
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Circa 1920 Cliff & Mattie Sarrett
Brother and sister. From the collection of Martha Crenshaw "Aunt Mattie" Sarrett.
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| Circa 1920 Ten Gallon Hat - Cliff and Lucile Carlisle Sarrett, left, and an unknown couple. Is that a ten gallon hat? Contributed by Marlene Sarrett O'Brien |
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Circa 1920 Granny Sarrett
Our grandmother, Martha Matilda Morris Sarrett Underwood Boyd Goff with her son, David Monroe Underwood (and an unidentified woman, see inset). She married David's father after being widowed with a very young son, our grandfather George Montgomery Sarrett. After Barrington Underwood died during the Civil War, she married a Mr. Boyd, then Benjamin Franklin Goff.
In later years, she was known as Granny Goff and lived in Alabama City, AL, where this photo is believed to have been made on the steps of her home at 24 Kyle Ave.
The old home was located in the block between what is now the old General Forrest Junior High and Emma Sansom High School, which is now Meighan Blvd. and U.S. Hwy 278 and 431. Now an historical area, the Kyle Ave. home was about 100 yards from where Emma Sansom grew up. As a little girl, Emma showed General Nathan Bedford Forrest where to cross Black Creek to stop Sherman from burning everything between there and Georgia.
Granny Goff was born in Hamilton County Tennessee on Feb 6, 1839 and during her lifetime went by both Martha and Matilda. She died in Alabama City, AL on Sept 16, 1926 at age 87 and is buried in White Hall Cemetery, Dekalb County, AL.
From the collection of Martha Crenshaw "Aunt Mattie" Sarrett
Identifications and additional information supplied by Shirley Underwood Davidson.
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1923 Lucile Carlisle Sarrett and Carl
From the collection of Martha Crenshaw "Aunt Mattie" Sarrett. |
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| 1924 Cliff, Carl, & Lucile Sarrett. From the collection of Martha Crenshaw "Aunt Mattie" Sarrett. |
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1929 Chicago Home Backporch
Cliff, Lucile, Ed, George, & Carl Sarrett. From the collection of Martha Crenshaw "Aunt Mattie" Sarrett. |
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1930 Brothers George & Carl Sarrett
Portrait is thought to have been made at
P.C. Smith Studio, located in the neighborhood where our widowed grandmother, Bettie Pittard Sarrett, and Aunt Mattie were living at 405 1/2 Forrest Ave, Alabama City, AL.
From the collection of Martha Crenshaw "Aunt Mattie" Sarrett
Additional information contributed by Shirley Underwood Davidson |
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1931 Poses with Grandma
Carl (standing) & George Sarrett with Emma Thompson Carlisle. |
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1934 Sunny Cicero - Ed, Lucile, Carl, Bob & George Sarrett.
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"We lived on N La Cross Avenue in a duplex, the last place we lived before moving to Atlanta from Chicago. Mama, Marlene, Dianne and I went to Chicago in 1948. Mama was curious to see how things had changed. We went to La Cross and nothing looked the same as she remembered, the reason, our two story duplex along with every other one on the street had been jacked up and a third floor added where the basement area had been. |
From the collection of Martha Crenshaw "Aunt Mattie" Sarrett
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I don't know when the change was made since we had been gone 14 years. In Marlene's history of the family on page A-11 is a map of the area, and on the next few pages is the other places we lived in Chicago. When I was stationed at Chunute Field my buddy and I went to Chicago three times in 1945, one time we went to Cicero because we didn't have much money, the locals were real nice to service people, bought our meals and entertainment. Cicero was where the mob lived and did business in the 20s and 30s, Daddy worked in a garage for a time, that he said later, he worked on luxury cars that belonged to the Capone gang members. So the picture was made during the mob days in Cicero, that what's wrong with all of us." George W. Sarrett
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1940 Lost Sarretts
This snapshot, found among the effects of Mattie Sarrett, is marked "1940 Thomasville in Allie's yard. Jim - Olivia Sarrett - my mother & father." Contact with these cousins was lost many years ago. Update: Mystery solved. Visitors signing our guestbook indentify these Sarretts. Visitor Comments: #1 #2. From the collection of Martha Crenshaw "Aunt Mattie" Sarrett.
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| 1942 Marlene, Lucile, and Bob Sarrett. From the collection of Martha Crenshaw "Aunt Mattie" Sarrett. |
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| 1944 Easter Sunday - The following photos were made from negatives rediscovered in 1999. |
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Ed, Grandma Bettie Sarrett, Bob, Lucille, Marlene, George & Cliff Sarrett.
Contributed by George W. Sarrett
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Ed, Bob, Lucile, Marlene, George, & Cliff.
Contributed by George W. Sarrett
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Carl, stationed in England, missed the occasion. From the collection of Martha Crenshaw "Aunt Mattie" Sarrett.
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Bob and his motorcycle. Contributed by George W. Sarrett
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Christine, Cliff, & Lucile. Contributed by George W. Sarrett |
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| Marlene, Natalie Broome, Bob, and Gyp the dog. Contributed by George W. Sarrett |
Ed, Christine, & George. Contributed by George W. Sarrett
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| March 20, 1947 - Bob Sarrett, Jean Hammond Niebreggie, Ed Sarrett, Mary Hornbuckle, George Sarrett, and Carl Sarrett. From the collection of Martha Crenshaw "Aunt Mattie" Sarrett. |
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| 1947 Cousins At Crowe Springs, Bartow County GA
(L-R back row) Ed Sarrett, George Sarrett, Marlene Sarrett, Jane Pratt, Charlotte Pratt, Sarah Pratt, Dorothy Pratt, Ruth McCrary, Carl Sarrett. Second row: Anne Carlisle (Carlyle), Patricia Pratt. (L-R) First row: Sam Carlisle, Nancy Carlisle, Dianne Sarrett. Contributed by Ruth McCrary MacKay.
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1948 - Marlene, Mary, Dianne, "Nana" Lucile, Caryl, George & Ed Sarrett gather for photo op in Nana's back yard. |
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1952 Martha Crenshaw "Aunt Mattie" Sarrett |
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1954
Cousins Fran, Joel, and Kay Sarrett in Nana's (Lucile Carlisle Sarrett) backyard at 84 Rocky Ford Rd, Atlanta, GA.
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| 1955 New Year's Day - Kay models party favors courtesy of Uncle Bob's ringing-in celebration the night before. Mom, Caryl, confirms it looked better on Bob. |
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| 1958 Carl, David, Christine . . . |
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. . . and Joel.
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| Aug 13, 1966 Hootnanny
Cousins Joel and Kay Sarrett during a rehearsal for a hootnanny. The momentous one-show performance featured guitar playing, folk singing, and matching costumes crafted by our grandmother, Nana (Lucile Carlisle Sarrett). Invited guests, including many family members, crowded into George and Caryl's basement, transformed for the occasion into a coffee house setting of flickering candles atop red and white checked tablecloths. The event was complete with stage lighting, microphones, and the technical expertise to make it all work, compliments of Michael Ross.
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1969 Sarrett Cousins - (Back Row) Joel, Kay, Fran, Cliff, David holding Connie O'Brien, Matt, (Front Row) Doug, Margaret, Angie, and Neal O'Brien. Made at either Thanksgiving or Christmas in George & Caryl's back yard, this is the only known photo of all of us together (Allan and Michele Ross are yet to be born). |
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| 1977 First Cousins Christy Sarrett & Travis Carter |
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1979 Pretty Much The Whole Fam-damily
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| Oct 29, 1983 Brothers & Sisters - Dianne Ross, Carl Sarrett, Bob Sarrett, Marlene O'Brien, George Sarrett and Ed Sarrett |
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1986 Cousin Ta-daaaaaa!
Cousins of "legal age" in 1986 will remember this get-together at Kay & Tom's. (L-R) Neal O'Brien, Angie Sarrett, Margaret Sarrett, Doug Sarrett, Matt Sarrett, Cliff Sarrett, Fran Sarrett Carter, Kay Sarrett Borden, & Joel Sarrett.
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1994 Doug's 15 Minutes of Fame
When Hyatt Regency needed to demolish the old IRS building in downtown Atlanta to make way for hotel improvements, company officials seized the opportunity for publicity -- the weariest taxpayer they could find would get to do the honors. Guess who got to push the button? For a couple of days, Doug Sarrett was the most famous man in America. One of the many, many media interviews was this article in the Atlanta Journal Constitution.
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By the way, it's pronounced sa-RET, y'all. One reporter got it right.
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1998 Married 153 Years
Three brothers and their brides have beat the odds to each commemorate their Golden Anniversary. The couples gathered Sunday (Oct 25, 1998) with 75 friends and other family members to celebrate the half century mark for (L-R) George and Caryl Sarrett of Smyrna, GA who officially reach 50 years Oct 29, 1998. Christine and Carl Sarrett of Gainsville, FL celebrated 50 years Feb 3, 1996 and Ed and Mary Sarrett from Gainesville, GA recorded their golden anniversary Mar 30, 1997. Between them, the Sarrett brothers claim 153 years of matimonial bliss.
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| May 2001 Carl Sarrett
Carl shows off his baby photo and one in uniform during World War II. Contributed by Joel Sarrett.
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Oct 8, 2002 Next Generation
Wesley Williams, Connor Hyche, and John Martin Harbaugh.
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| 2004 Miss Emma Jane Scharre
Arrived Nov 24 at 3:30 p.m.weighing in at a pettit 7 lbs. 6 oz. Mom, Dad, Big Sis, Grandma, and Uncle all doing fine. Contributed by Connie O'Brien Scharre
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