| My grandfather, Edward Raymond Byrnes (06 Jun 1893 - 13 May 1966), in the yard of his home in Byrnesville about 1963. Grandad was one of the youngest of his ten siblings and one of seven sons of Thomas J. Byrne(s) and Sarah Anna Miller.
The houses on the hill behind him are on Philadelphia Avenue. The top of the hill is also the home to the Barnesboro Pool. A fire burned the woods on the hill the year or two before. Looking at the foliage, this picture was probably taken in March, the open gate is across James Street and leads to my grandad's garden. As kids we used to run and hide in the corn in that garden. He grew corn, tomatoes, green onions, rubarb, sweet pea flowers, and I can still smell the mint in the air when he would mow the grass along the paths in the garden. The garden leads down hill to Walnut Run, a wonderful creek where I spent quite a bit of time. My buddies and I built a dam out of rocks on the creek and had what seemed like us to be a lake for awhile. Pete and Tony Barzcak and I caught hundreds of crawfish or crawdads at the creek and nearby we flattened coins into ovals and nails into small swords by placing them on the tracks nearby. Of course we were told not to play near the creek or the railroad tracks. |
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Tuesday, June 3. 2008
Grandad in Byrnesville
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Awesome! I have to leave for work more later. Really very cool!
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James Thomas Byrnes
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2008-05-29 18:33
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In the 1910 US Census, Edward R. Byrnes is listed as having the occupation of a drayman. A dray, as listed in a wiki is 'a low horse-drawn cart, often without sides, and used especially for heavy loads'. From the census too we learn that his father Thomas
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Edward R. Byrnes was a wood worker and one of my earliest memories ever is tied to this fact. In the summer of 1950 while I was working on completing my first year of life I remember two huge black barns behind the my grandparents house, the house being o
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