Falling Through Space (7 page)

Nell Biggs Alford, maternal grandmother

Stewart Floyd Alford, maternal grandfather

Maternal grandmother and grandfather, Aunt Margaret on running board. Great-grandmother holding mother in back seat, and Onnie Maud

Ellen Gilchrist's mother, “Bodie” Alford, listed as “Most Popular Girl”, Ole Miss, 1927

Mother at Hopedale with Jiggs and Maggie

Mother at Ole Miss, 1928

Ellen Gilchrist's father, pro-baseball infielder Garth Gilchrist, known as “Dooley”

Father in 1979

Eli Nailor, baby Ellen, and dogs Old Joe and Bud

Ellen, Stewart Floyd Alford, Senior, her grandfather, and Jiggs

Dooley Gilchrist, Roosevelt and Henrietta Neal, and Ellen Gilchrist on Steele's Bayou, fall of 1936 or 1937

Little Dooley, Eli Nailor, little Ellen, 1936

Ellen, brother Dooley

Eli Nailor holding Dooley, George Healy IV (Bunky), Grandfather Alford, Roberta Alford, Roosevelt Neal, and Old Joe the dog