Snapshots of Mary Ann McEwan and baby Chris with his soldier father Bo, Alexandria and Coleman, 1942
Book 2, Page 196 ·1942
Transcription
Top row — two photographs:
Left: a woman (Mary Ann) bending over a baby (Chris) in a wicker bassinet.
Right: a uniformed soldier (Bo McEwan) holding the baby in front of a frame house.
Caption beneath in blue ink:
Mary Ann + Chris + Bo and Chris Alexandria La. 1942
Middle — single photograph:
A baby lying on his stomach on a blanket, smiling broadly, with small toys scattered around him.
Caption beneath in blue ink:
Chris — Coleman — Texas
Bottom row — two photographs:
Left: Mary Ann holding the baby on her shoulder, indoors.
Right: the soldier (Bo McEwan) holding the baby on his lap.
Centered between them, in blue ink:
Chris 8½ months —
Captions beneath in blue ink:
Mary Ann + Chris — Coleman Texas
Bo and Chris Coleman Texas 1942
AI Notes
‘Bo’ here is Lt. Oswald Beverley McEwan (Mary Ann Walker’s husband, baby Chris’s father; US Army officer stationed in Louisiana/Texas in 1942), not Mary Ann’s brother James Pickens Walker Jr. (also nicknamed ‘Bo’). Both photos showing a uniformed soldier with the baby are Bo McEwan + Chris. Mary Ann and Bo McEwan married 14 May 1941; Chris (= Christopher Gaillard McEwan, Hunter McEwan’s uncle — Hunter’s father is Chris’s younger brother James Walker ‘Jim’ McEwan) would have been ~8½ months old in these 1942 photos, putting his birth in spring 1942. Album page with five small black-and-white snapshots arranged in three clusters, each group captioned beneath in blue ink.