Three Walker siblings: high-school graduation portraits with families and grandchildren, 1928–1978

Scanned page 393 of Book 1 — Scan of original. Open full size →

Three formal sepia studio portraits of the Walker siblings — the two sisters in dark blouses, the brother in a dark jacket — captioned across the very top:

Three pictures above 1928 - 1934 - between

Captions beneath each upper portrait:

Emma Dee Walker — Jax. High School

James Pickens Walker Jr. — Jax. High Sch[ool]

Mary Ann Walker

Lower-left grouping (Emma Dee Walker):

A snapshot of a young woman in a striped dress seated at a writing-desk indoors, typing or writing letters. Pencil caption beneath the photograph:

Walker Corbell [illegible] / [illegible]

Pencilled genealogical register beneath the snapshot:

Emma Dee Walker — B. Oct. 18th — 1915 — D. May 11th 1959 —M— Oct. 9th 1937 Dr. Robert Lawrence Corbell Sr. — B. Jan. 31 — 19[12]

Robert Lawrence Corbell III — B. Jan. 14 — 1941

Pickens Walker Corbell — B. Nov. 13. 1944 — D. 2 — 1953

Dee Corbell — B. Nov. 23 — 1946 M. March 28 — 1972 — Claude Aime-Gramond [written without accent on this page; rendered Aimé-Gramond on the printed wedding card, p. 415]

Eric — April 6, 1976

Nicolas — 1978

Lower-centre grouping (James Pickens Walker Jr.):

A snapshot of a young man crouching among shrubs in a sunlit garden, pointing at something off-frame. Caption written across the bottom of the snapshot:

PICKENS — 1953 — JAX. FLA.

Pencilled register beneath:

James Pickens Walker Sr. — B. Jan 5 — 1912 — D. Jan. 2, 1969 —M— June 26 — 1941 Ann Seymour Knight — B. June 27 — 1917

1965 M — Jan 30th [1965] — Paula JS Isenberg M Dec 18 — 1971 — Gloria Mercedes Gutierrez

[Editorial note: the heading “James Pickens Walker Sr.” is the compiler’s mislabel — the dates identify this as James Pickens Walker Jr. (1912–1969). ‘Paula’ is Paula Walker, the daughter of J. P. Walker Jr. and Ann Knight; she married first an Isenberg (Jan. 30, 1965) and apparently again in Dec. 1971 to Gloria Mercedes Gutierrez — though the second name reads as a woman’s, so the marriage list may instead chain through a second member of the family. The compiler’s hand is ambiguous here.]

Lower-right grouping (Mary Ann Walker):

A small head-and-shoulders newspaper clipping of a young woman with dark hair, printed caption beneath:

Mrs. Beverly McEwan President, Woman’s Advisory Board

A handwritten extension to the printed caption, in blue ink:

of The Children’s Home Society of Florida

Pencilled register beneath the clipping:

Mary Ann Walker — B. June 8 — 1918 M. May 14 — 1941 Oswald Beverly McEwan — B. Dec. 31 — 19[??]

Christopher Gaillard McEwan — B. June 27 — 1942

Nancy Fletcher McEwan — B. Sept. 13 — 1946

James Walker McEwan — B. April 25 — 1949

AI Notes

An album page with three large head-and-shoulders graduation portraits across the top — Emma Dee Walker at left, James Pickens Walker Jr. centre, and Mary Ann Walker at right, captioned ‘Three pictures above 1928 - 1934 - between’. Below are three groupings of smaller snapshots / pasted clippings, one per sibling, each accompanied by a pencilled family register written by the compiler Amy Perry FitzSimons (the siblings’ mother) and clearly extended over several decades — entries run as late as 1978 with Dee Corbell’s two French-named children (Aime-Gramond), implying the page was being annotated through the late 1970s. The French surname is rendered ‘Aime-Gramond’ on this page (no accent) but the canonical form (from the printed wedding card on page 415) is Aimé-Gramond. Key date confirmations: Mary Ann Walker born June 8, 1918 (the p392 entry shows June 9 — the two pages disagree by one day; preserving each page’s reading); Christopher Gaillard McEwan born June 27, 1942; Nancy Fletcher McEwan born Sept. 13, 1946; James Walker McEwan born April 25, 1949. The centre column heading reads ‘James Pickens Walker Sr.’ but the dates (b. Jan. 5, 1912) make clear it refers to James Pickens Walker Jr. — the compiler’s labelling slip, transcribed as written. The lower-right clipping is a society photo of Mary Ann (‘Mrs. Beverly McEwan, President, Woman’s Advisory Board of The Children’s Home Society of Florida’), with handwritten extension of the printed caption.

A pencilled date ‘D. Jan. 2, 1969’ floats to the left of the Mary Ann register — it corresponds to her brother J. P. Walker Jr.'s death and bleeds across from the centre column.