The picture below was taken in September 2011 at Lois Ann Howard Adams home in Tennessee. With her on the left in blue is a distant cousin, Geraldine Stansbery Holliman Feick. Both attended the June 2012 Greer-Wilson dinner in Boone, North Carolina. Although kin to each other and living only 20 miles apart in the 1930s and 1950s, they had never met before until cousin Clinton Getzinger introduced them via email.
Below is a photograph of 'Gerry' taken with her grandmother, Frances Wilson Osborne, in 1929.
Lois Ann had it in her family photograph collection, never seen before by Gerry until 2011, over 80 years after the picture was taken.
Frankie Osborne (1851-1940) is a daughter of Isaac and Caroline Greer Wilson. She married George Washington Osborne in 1867 at the Wilson homeplace in Sutherland, North Carolina. They had seven children to live to maturity, one being Mayme Torrence Osborne (1896-1943) who married Charles S. Stansbery of Afton, Tennessee in 1914. They had three children, one being Geraldine Stansbery, who is the mother of Glenn Holliman, this writer, and Becky Payne and Alice Murphy who attended the June 2012 family tour.
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