

… one I did on a beer box flap for my friends Gwen and Corne from The Cocky Rooster Bar!
This was my Great Grandmother and the daughter of Captain Lee Williamson whose photo I posted earlier tonight …
She married Walter B. Rankin and that started the whole thing!
Maude Katherine Williamson Rankin
This is a photo of my Dad, Robert “Bob” Rankin that was taken somewhere around 1947-48 …
He rode this motorcycle up the fire escape slide at the old Tivy High School – which is now Peterson Middle School.
Seemed like a good plan until he had to come down backwards and it didn’t end well.
My Grandpa picked gravel out of his elbows with a pair of needle nose pliers …
from left to right in the photo –
My Grandfather JB Rankin, Aunt Alyne (Rankin) Harvill, Grandmother (Mama Pearl), Robert “Bob” Rankin, Uncle Stanley Rankin and Aunt, Betty Jean (Rankin) Tracy
This was my Great, Great Grandfather on my Father’s side of the family
Captain Lee Williamson
1st Sheriff of Kerr County, Texas
from 1856-1859
He died in downtown Kerrville, Texas in 1911 at the site of the old post office when he dropped dead of a heart attack.
Buster and Vera …
This was my Uncle Buster (Loss Rankin) and my Aunt Vera (married to Duney Rankin).
I believe this was a rare photo of Aunt Vera in a dress as the whole time I knew her I never saw her in anything but boots, khaki pants and a man’s work shirt.
Vera and Duney ran sheep and goats around Rocksprings and Leakey, Texas.
In their later years they remodeled old houses around the Kerrville, Texas area.