Photograph of first living room at the farm in West Virginia; memoir of early married life, 1908–1910
Book 2, Page 61 ·1908–1910
Transcription
Above and around an empty mount at upper left:
This is a picture of Harry taken about that time.
We went to W. Va. and stayed on the farm — That was the year Mrs. Walker bought the house in Philippi.
Beneath the photograph of the living-room interior:
This is a picture of our first living room — On the farm in W. Va.
Continuing below, in pencil (with a small inserted date “1909” above “March”):
We stayed there until March 1909 when Puck was called back to the A. C. L. We stayed in Florence — at the hotel there — until summer, and in the fall we went to Marion N. C. — I was pregnant — and I stayed there until X mas.
then I went
In a slightly different hand along the bottom edge:
to the plantation + stayed until March 6th when I went to Char. + to the Roper Sani[torium]. They were [grand?] the people. [Bottom edge of page; partial line, ink fading toward the binding.]
AI Notes
Album page with one small sepia photograph at center showing a dim Victorian parlor interior with a draped table catching window light. A small ghost-mount rectangle remains at upper left where a photograph of Harry has been removed (or was never affixed). Pencilled memoir text in Amy’s hand wraps around the empty mount, runs around the inserted living-room photograph, and continues at the bottom of the page in a second pencil layer with the date ‘1909’ interlined. The very last lines run off the page edge in a small second hand. This is Amy’s memoir of the first months of her marriage (late 1908 — March 1910); the narrative culminates in her going to Roper Hospital in Charleston to give birth, which is reported on p063 as the birth of Amy Perry ‘Buzzie’ Walker on March 20th, 1910. The house in Philippi was bought by Mrs. Walker — Amy’s mother-in-law, Emma Dee Pickens Walker, who continued to live on the Fairfield farm but acquired a house in Philippi (consistent with JP Walker Sr.'s later burial there). The bottom-edge line reads ‘I went to Char. + to the Roper Sani[torium]’ (Roper Hospital appears elsewhere in the album, e.g. pp063, 078).
Memoir continues on subsequent pages; cf. p063 for the birth of Amy Perry “Buzzie” Walker at Roper Hospital, Charleston, March 20th, 1910.