It's Not About Me

You can expect many more diversions as I dig into our family history because as the older, I got…the more I realized that I had been born into a most interesting family tree.

Now … back to my beginn ing. We did not have digital photographs back in this day and time … you shot pictures with a Kodak camera and sent the film off to some remote city for developing and making prints…usually a two to four-week process. Here is my first photo taken October 8 th , 1944, on the front steps of our home of Bolivar, TN.

Five Years Later… You would think after having me, my parents would be cured of parenthood! But no, my brother was born on June 11, 1949 – Kenneth Eugene Savage, Sr. This picture was taken of Ken and my mom and me on July 31, 1949, at my grandparent’s house in their front yard in Bolivar, TN . You can see more photos of Ken and me in my parent ’ s family history referenced in the appendix but repeated here for those who cannot wait to go see it. Reference: Woodson Savage, Jr. & Audrey Downer Family History (84 pages) 1914-2006

https://www.savagefamilytree.com/histories/Woodson%20and%20Audrey%20Savage%20Family%20His tory.pdf

An interesting tidbit of Savage Family History: There would four generations of Woodson J. Savage’s – Sr., Jr., III and IV but ONLY two girls were born in all that time …and they were born over 100 years apart! • Eveline Savage was born to Woodson J. Savage, Sr. and Nina Campbell Savage on May 5, 1910 • Rebecca Eveline Savage was born to Woodson J. Savage, IV and Mary Black Savage on December 2, 2010

Left Photo: Woodson and Nina Savage, Sr. with daughter Eveline Savage seated with sons Gene and Woodson Savage, Jr. standing. Right Photo: Woodson J. Savage, IV and daughter Rebecca Savage

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