Bragg Family South

Well, we're not quite to her birthday, but in just a few days Beth will turn 11, so I figured I'd give y'all a "throw-back" picture of her birthday in 2007...You can see how 3-year-old Beth was giddy about her birthday cake! Yesterday, we participated in a really neat event--a "ghost walk" through history at Arkansas Post National Memorial.  We have taken many of you here when you visit us...Arkansas Post is about an hour from our home, and is the site of the first European settlement in Arkansas (an early version dated back to the late 1600s).  Most of you may be familiar with this location for other reasons--we usually take a spring picnic trip here, and this is where we photograph the alligators! To our pleasant surprise, the slough where we usually see the gators was chock-full of flowers...I'm not sure what species these are, but the yellow ones were everywhere, and there were also some very pretty purple ones, too!  In the picture ...

My recent spate of old family photograph scanning led me to the following tribute, penned by my father, Don L. Bragg, to his father-in-law, Elton Bayer, after his passing in 1982: GRANDFATHER ELTON BAYER He was... ...unpretentious, ...a hard worker, ...grateful for the smallest favor, ...faithful to his wife, Betty, who preceded him in death--by one year and one week. ...supportive of his family, ...defender of his children, ...loved his grandchildren dearly. ...counseled his children and their spouses when the need seemed apparent, ...yet was indulgent out of regard for their maturing years. ...loved to win games of horseshoes and cribbage with his family--and win he usually did. ...was generous with the little he had of this world's goods. ...he appreciated that the Lord's blessings be asked at his table. No labor was too mean for him to do his utmost to bring food to his table, to provide clothing for his family, and to keep warmth under his roof. No ...