Photographs and inscription: Amy Perry Walker ('Buzzie'), born March 1910, died June 1911
Book 2, Page 63 ·1910-1911
Transcription
Two sepia infant portraits at the top of the page — a small round vignette at upper left and a larger oval at upper center.
Beneath, in blue ink:
Amy Perry Walker — Born in Roper Hospital Charleston S. C. March 20th, 1910. Died in Weldon N. C. June 30th, 1911. Buried in the Fitz Simons Lot in Magnolia Cemetery — Charleston, S. C.
Below, a horizontal row of three small snapshots:
- Left: the baby seated on a white blanket spread on grass.
- Center: a young woman seated outdoors holding the baby in her lap.
- Right: the baby seated atop a wicker basket or stool on a lawn, a dark-clad woman standing behind.
Captions beneath the snapshots, in blue ink:
“Buzzy” + Mim mie ⸺ Buzzy with me and little Maum Hinda.
AI Notes
Album page with five sepia photographs of the infant Amy Perry ‘Buzzie’ Walker (Amy and J.P. Walker’s first child) mounted in two clusters — two small oval baby portraits at upper left and upper center, and three rectangular snapshots in a horizontal row at lower left. Handwritten captions in blue ink record her birth in Roper Hospital on 20 Mar 1910, death in Weldon NC on 30 Jun 1911, and burial in the FitzSimons lot at Magnolia Cemetery, Charleston. The dark-clad attendant in the bottom-right snapshot is ‘Maum Hinda’ (a family nursemaid) — Amy uses the Lowcountry ‘Maum’ (mauma) honorific. The grandmother caption reads ‘Buzzy + Mim mie’ (Amy’s shorthand for her mother, ‘Mam’mie’ Mary Anne Perry FitzSimons).
The compiler’s spelling of “Mim mie” is her shorthand for “Mam’mie” — her mother, Mary Anne Perry FitzSimons. “Maum” (mauma) is the Lowcountry term for a Black family nursemaid; Hinda is the woman’s given name.