![\"\"](\"https:\/\/findingeliza.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/tower.jpg\" "\\"tower\\"")
<\/a>In the first picture we see him perched on a fence with a tower in the background.\u00a0 It looks sort of like a\u00a0 bell tower.<\/p>\nThese photos were\u00a0 around 1916 in Montgomery, Alabama. I think.<\/p>\n For other Sepia Saturday entries with towers in them, click HERE<\/a>.\u00a0 Other posts about my MC Graham:\u00a0 The Proposal<\/a>,\u00a0 The Proposal Accepted<\/a>, Poem for Poppy<\/a>,\u00a0 Mershell’s Notebook<\/a> and Poppy Could Fix Anything<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" My sister recently found a stash of old family photos that she had forgotten she had.\u00a0 She was nice enough to bring them over to me to add to the collection.\u00a0 Among those photographs were these of my maternal grandfather, Mershell C. Graham called Poppy by us.\u00a0 When these photos were made, he was Shell … Continue reading Poppy Was Cool – 1916<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,154],"tags":[22],"class_list":["post-191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grahams","category-sepia-saturday-2","tag-mershell-c-graham"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/findingeliza.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/findingeliza.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/findingeliza.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/findingeliza.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/findingeliza.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/findingeliza.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35520,"href":"https:\/\/findingeliza.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/revisions\/35520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/findingeliza.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/findingeliza.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/findingeliza.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a>In the next photo MC seems to be holding an umbrella and wearing tails.\u00a0 On the other hand it looks like it’s pretty big for an umbrella. In the back is a wooden fence, but not the same one as in the tower photo. There are several people walking up and down the street too.<\/p>\n<\/a>In the third photo my grandfather is swinging in the woods.\u00a0 In the background there is something that could be a house or other building.<\/p>\n<\/a>The last photo I include because they are such a cool looking couple. I know nothing beyond they were my grandfather’s friends.<\/p>\n