In the picture above, Aunt Lola is with her daughters, Pauline and Enza. Aunt Lola was a half sister to Dad, about 15 years older. It seems like Aunt Lola came often to visit when I was growing up. I always thought of Aunt Lola (born in 1882) as the oldest person I knew when I was a kid. Dad, as well as Mom, was very fond of her.. Clarice stayed with Aunt Lola her first year of high school and went to McKinney High School because there was no bus available to Middleburg High School at that time. Aunt Lola was always a very small lady as long as I can remember. I have heard from my older sisters that my grandmother, Quintilda Durham Williams, mother of Dad and Aunt Lola, was also small like Aunt Lola.
Aunt Lola and her husband, Dan Milburn, once lived on Ragged Ridge. They sold to the Warfield family before moving to McKinney. Donald told me a story once about Uncle Dan and his own dad, my grandfather John Frank Williams. One time when Donald and Dad were walking over the fields down near where the pond is now, he saw a place in the hill side that looked like someone had dug out a huge hunk. Although grass had grown over the place, he could still tell that someone had done something there to the side of the hill. When Donald asked, Dad just laughed and say, “Oh, that’s just where Dan and Pa was digging for gold.”