Source: Lula Feaster Album
Handwritten:
[Front] Bessie Rawls Wolling Fletcher
[Back] Mothers Sister
Also has drawing of island with sail boat, and the words "Miss S.? from SB Brown S.C."
This may have been a calling card onto which the image was glued

Image 2

Source: Lula Feaster Album
Handwritten:
Bessie Rawls Wolling Fletcher
[Note: this photo was lose in the album]

Research:

Bessie Rawls Wolling (1888 - 19??) was among the youngest children of John G. and Lula Feaster Wolling.

A beautiful young woman, Bessie left Fairfield Co. after she married Joshua P. Fletcher from the town of McColl in Marlboro Co., South Carolina, near the North Carolina border. Links between the Wolling and Fletcher families were reinforced by the marriage of Bessie's younger sister Lula Geiger Wolling to Josh's cousin, Robert Galloway Fletcher (1).

Bessie and Josh Fletcher apparently moved to Georgia before 1918, when their first surviving child Lewis Allen Fletcher was born. Joshua P. Fletcher was a railroad engineer (2), so the family may have moved to accommodate his work. Bessie and Josh raised 3 boys to adulthood.

Lula Feaster Wolling was fond of Bessie and her children, as evidenced by the many photos found in her album. Lula went to visit her daughter Bessie in North Carolina in 1931 and died there (3). This may explain why no death certificate appears for Lula in South Carolina. The Fletchers were buried in Beaverdam Cemetery in Marlboro Co., South Carolina, alongside their firstborn, Josh Jr., who died as a toddler (4).

Sources:

1. E-mail 2 Mar 2003 from Lula Fletcher Corbin; and post-em 2-28-2003 on rootsweb.com
   
   
2. Maria Lousia "Lula" Georgiana Feaster Photo Album, inside front cover, handwritten notes by g-dau Cleora Clowney Hall (dau of Emmie Louise Wolling Clowney).
   
   
3. U.S. Census 1930, Georgia, Chatham Co., Savannah, T626_344, p. 210-a, 8 Apr 1930.
   
   
4. "Cemetery records of Marlboro County, Second Edition (1984)", on Marlboro, Co. SC website (Mgr. Victoria Proctor) - www.rootsweb.com/~scmarlbo/marlboro_cem.htm

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