Three snapshots of Pickens and the Waite children with Dad, on horseback and donkey at the farm
Book 2, Page 98 ·1915–1920
Transcription
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Three sepia snapshots stacked vertically, each captioned in pencil above the print.
Caption above the top print:
Dad - Patch and Peach helping
Top print — three small children seated together on a horse on a sunlit lawn, a man in a dark coat (Dad = Amy’s father, Samuel Gaillard FitzSimons Sr.) steadying them from the right; a figure in white stands beside a tree in the background.
Caption above the middle print:
Pickens and the Waite
Middle print — a man in a dark coat at left and a man in lighter clothes at right lead a small donkey across an open field, two small children seated on the donkey and a small child walking alongside.
Caption above the bottom print:
Children ride Peggy - the donkey -
Bottom print — four small children seated atop a donkey in front of a clapboard farmhouse, a man in dark clothes and a straw hat at the right holding the donkey’s lead.
AI Notes
Three horizontal sepia snapshots stacked vertically, each pencil-captioned above the print, showing small children on horseback and on a donkey at the FitzSimons family farm in the Adams Run / Willtown area. Captions read (1) Dad - Patch and Peach helping — three small children seated on a horse, an older man in a coat steadying them from the right; (2) Pickens and the Waite — a man at left and a second man at right leading a small donkey across an open field, two children on the donkey and a small child walking alongside; (3) Children ride Peggy - the donkey - — four small children seated atop the donkey in front of a clapboard farmhouse, a man in dark clothes and a straw hat at the right holding the lead.
Dad in caption (1) is Amy’s father, Samuel Gaillard FitzSimons Sr. (1856–1930) — grandfather to the small children, including Amy’s son Pickens (James Pickens Walker Jr., b. 1912). The surname Waite is cross-referenced from p087 (Pickens + Dee with the Waite children). Patch is the family nickname for Amy’s youngest sister Mary Annie FitzSimons (later Mrs. D. M. Allston Sr.), per Amy’s memoir on p025 (“There was a new baby at home — Patch”). Peach is presumably another nickname in the same group — possibly one of the small Walker or Allston cousins.