This first picture is my dad about 16 years old. He's standing next to my great-grandmother, Mary Pinkney Patterson Warford. She lived in town, Higbee, where dad had to attend high school so he stayed with her during the week since his parents lived out a few miles from town on a farm.
This next picture is of his (Dad's) parents, Nancy and Leonard, and his brother and sister. This picture was taken about 10 years before my dad was born.
This is a choice picture of my great-grandfather, James Warford, husband of Mary Pinkney. I've only seen one picture of him where he's much older.
This next one is a family picture of James and Mary with some of their children and grandchildren. My grandmother, Nancy Susan, is standing right behind her mother. I've never seen a picture of my grandmother at a very young age like this before. 
This is a family picture of James and Mary with their 5 daughters and 3 sons. Nancy Susan is Dad's mother. I was named after her.
The next 2 are the most priceless of all these new photos. This is a picture taken around 1860 of my great-great grandmother, Nancy Catherine Maxfield. I had never seen ANY picture of her before.
Nancy Catherine was born in Kentucky. She married John Pinkney Patterson in 1864. He went off to fight with the Confederates in the Civil War that same year and never returned. 9 months later, my great-grandmother, Mary Pinkney, was born. I've had a picture of him, probably taken just before he went off to war so what a thrill to now have one of Nancy Catherine, too.
So glad you checked out the dusty box, Joy!
