Envelope dated June 30, 1911 — July 1, 1911; snapshot of Buzzie; memoir of her death in Weldon
Book 2, Page 64 ·1910–1911
Transcription
A worn cream envelope mounted at the top, inscribed in blue ink:
June 30th, 1911. July 1st, 1911.
[The two dates bracket the death of the writer’s infant daughter Amy Perry “Buzzie” Walker — see body memoir below.]
A small sepia photograph at the left of mid-page: baby Buzzie in a white bonnet and dress, seated against (or in the lap of) a dark-clothed older woman whose face is partially obscured. The setting is indoors before a wicker chair-back.
Beside the photograph and continuing below, in blue ink:
“Buzzie” — as I always called her — was born in Chas. S. C. at Roper Hospital. Puck had been on construction work between Marion N. C. and Wadesboro. We boarded in Marion until X’mas. We went to the plantation for X’mas, and there I stayed there until March 6th, when I went to Chas. and boarded with the Joseph Warings. Cousin Eunice + Cousin Jo. When I left the hospital I went back to the Warings. Puck had then been sent on construction work at Weldon N. C., so we went there to live. Buzzie died there and I shall never forget the kindness of the people in Weldon.
AI Notes
Album page with three elements: a worn cream envelope at the top inscribed with two dates (June 30, 1911 / July 1, 1911 — bracketing the death of the infant Buzzie); a small sepia snapshot showing baby Buzzie in a white bonnet seated on the lap of a dark-clothed older woman (possibly her nurse) before a wicker chair-back; and a handwritten memoir passage in blue ink filling the right side and bottom of the page. Continues Amy FitzSimons’s narrative — Puck’s construction work between Marion N. C. and Wadesboro, the move to Weldon N. C., and Buzzie’s death there at fifteen months old in June 1911. The cousin named in the text is Cousin Eunice — i.e. Mrs. Joseph J. Waring, the Perry cousin who compiled the Perry foldout on p624. The photograph shows an adult figure with the baby, not the baby alone.