3/25/2023 0 Comments Myheritage photoenhancerYou can see that Will used a backdrop, because you can see the field stones in the building to the right. In the photo where they look the youngest, I’d say they are about 50, which would date the photo to about 1898 or so. I don’t know exactly when Will bought his first camera, but I can get some idea by when he began to take photographs of his parents, Lazarus Estes and Elizabeth Vannoy. He promised to do better back home, and at least she would have her family nearby. In Arkansas, my grandmother, Ollie, ran a boarding house and according to her, Will fished all day and drank, generally at the same time, and was pretty much good for nothing.Ī few years and four babies later, Ollie grew tired of his shiftlessness and aversion to work, and the couple, now with two living children headed back for Tennessee. He would have built a cabin in Estes Holler and tried to eek a living out of some rocky area not already being cultivated. Had he stayed in Claiborne County, Will would have farmed. Not long after the wedding, rumored to have taken place on horseback in the road at the county line, since he was from Claiborne County and she was from neighboring Hancock County, the young couple left Tennessee for Springdale, Arkansas. Will married my grandmother in 1892 at the ripe old age of 19 and drifted from job to job for years. I found and made contact with my father’s sisters – the elderly, eccentric crazy aunts. Some of the stories I’ve heard about him since since would curl your toenails.Īll that said, after I began researching my genealogy, I was intensely curious about the side of my family that I never knew. That combined with the “less than stellar” aspect of his character is probably exactly why my mother never mentioned him. I would have volunteered to be the taste tester. I would have welcomed Grandpa with open arms, wanting to sample each of his wares that he had spent decades perfecting. Retrospectively, that’s probably for the best, considering I would likely, as a rebellious teen, have been easily influenced by a bootlegging grandpa. I never met him and didn’t even realize he had been alive during my lifetime until some years after his death. He, apparently, was not interested one iota in me. My grandfather lived in another state, 800+ miles away, and wasn’t the most upstanding of citizens. His father, my grandfather, William George Estes, known as Will, lived to be almost 99 and died when I was in high school. My parents were divorced and my father died when I was a child. I never knew my father’s side of the family. Yea, a moonshining photographer – and not one picture of his mother-in-law. For black and white, colorizing the result makes them literally come to life in an unimaginable, breathtaking way.Īnd of course, there’s a story…my grandfather was a photographer, that is, when he wasn’t bootlegging. It works amazingly well on old photos, especially groups, that were taken in black and white although it works on color pictures too. The new Photo Enhancer brings blurry, grainy or fuzzy photos into focus. I knew that improvements were underway, but the newly released MyHeritage Photo Enhancer, which works in conjunction with, or separately from the colorizer, is absolutely wonderful. I wrote about that here and colorized several photos of Mom and her amazing dance partner, here. I uploaded many photos and colorized old black and white family photos. MyHeritage has introduced a wonderful new photo enhancement tool.Ī few months ago, MyHeritage introduced their photo colorization tool.
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