Here is a 2007 picture of Dad walking in the same place his Grandfather Claude Eugene Cowdrey walked during the late 1890's. These are the same buildings that where there when Claude was residing in Yellville in his younger years!
This trip was an eye opener for me because I knew little about my father's family except what I'd found in the records. When Dad said we should take a 2500 mile jaunt across the US to meet his living relations and look for the places those now gone had come from, I said yes with a little trepidation. See, we covered that 2500 miles in just two weeks! Idaho to Mississippi, in some of the worst summer rains or summer heat depending on the location.
But the pictures I took and the things I learned on that trip connected me to my father and his side of the family. I am glad we went.
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