H. Floyd Ellis writes, via our Facebook page: This barn, at least 62 years old, is on the farm previously owned by the late Selma Monroe Shrouder (1927-1979). Upon our grandmother’s death, it was divided among the heirs about 8 years ago. This area/section was then sold.
Jesse Bookhardt remembers the tobacco culture of the era: Every time I see an old barn or a tobacco field, my back starts to ache. The plant is plenty deadly, but back in the day many a South Georgia boy, girl, woman, and man earned a living growing and marketing the cancer weed. I never smoked, dipped nor chewed, but I sometimes got
green tobacco sickness from the nicotine that leached into my skin while
working cropping the green leaf in the field.
Selma Shrouder was my daddy’s Uncle. My daddy Clarence Maxwell Nelson has spoke of Selma of him often. I have lived in Wyoming most of my life and I love seeing the pictures of where I was born. Thank you so much for this picture of my relatives barn.
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Love seeing your photographs as they come down the pike. Keep’em coming!
Thanks, Anne! I love making these images, too!