I have the above picture posted on my biography page on this website.  My Pop is in the background beside Mollie Coley with Rose Thomas in front of him and my future Mom, Ann is in the right front of the picture taken around 1941.  We use to grin every time Pop would show this pix of which he had the original in his wallet.  Pop said it was "Love at first sight" when he saw Ann Coley.  Grandma dressed Ann like she was a little girl for sure.  Pop was 18 when they married and she was 13.  According to my Dad, he stated that Ann's brother Douglas saved him from Mr. Coley by calming things down when he told Mr. Coley they were married. 

Below pix of Ann & Mollie Coley, Risden and Charles Ackerman, circa 1940 +- courtesy of June Bowers.

Below is a pix of Mom holding yours truly in 1946 of which my friends stated "that was the best I have ever looked".....grin if you must:

My Grandma and Mom related to me that Mom had a tough time delivering me since she was only fifteen (15) years old at the time.  They both said that my eyes were very swollen along with my lips and Grandma came home and told Mr. Coley that was the ugliest baby she had ever seen, whereas Mr. Coley said, "Della, you shouldn't talk about the baby like that."  Both Grandma and Mom related to me that they had to put some type of temporary cast on my head and even today, one of my eye brows is slightly higher than the other one.  Lets face it, I had a warped head from the very beginning.......grin again, if you must!  One of the neighbors Hamp Robinson from down the street after seeing yours truly, told my Mom, he could have taken a brickbat and made something better looking that that....Ok, another grin is in order.  I must have grown out of that ugly and thank goodness!

Above is pix of Mr. Coley with yours truly and my Mom Ann Porter.  The picture is badly degraded and was taken between February 1946 and June 1946.  I remember seeing this picture as a young lad in Grandma Coleys loose pictures that she kept in a shoe box stored inside a cedar chest.  Mr. Coley also had pictures taken that same day of himself with the Ackerman kids.

Above picture of Mickey Porter (left) and June Bowers.  The watermelons are bigger than those two rug rats......grin if you must!

Below are more copy and paste pictures of our Pop and family members from my biography page:

Early pix of Mom and Pop

Below pix taken in 1978 with Ray Newton in the background.

A pix taken in the mid 1950s of the Porter kids left to right; Allen, Mickey, Joe (front & center, deceased) and Sue aka SusieQ.  I still miss Brother Joe.  I only have a few pixs of him which I will insert one taken in January 1968.

Below is another pix of the Porter Kids taken in the May 1965.  I was home on leave from the US Navy after a six month school in Bainbridge, Md., and was transferred to Morocco, Africa at a Naval Relay Station which was under the radar so to speak.

Pop and his red 1963 Ford pickup truck.  Pop loved that ole truck and I bet there was a few pounds of Bondo Body filler where he did some home grown repairs to the metal work!  My sister SusieQ had the opportunity to have his ole truck but it would have been some serious cash outlay to fully restore his ole truck and we decided to sell it as is.

Eunice VonCannon, Pop and Mom

Pix below of Pop and his Sister Eunice VonCannon.  I have very few pixs of Eunice and her husband GE who lived in Newport News, Virginia.  I visited Eunice and her husband GE with a friend while I was stationed at the Naval Air Station there in Norfolk, VA while in the US Navy, whereas GE was in the home construction business specializing in aluminum siding installation, etc.  I also took Grandma and Grandpa Porter to visit GE when he was in the VA Hospital there in Norfolk and another trip to visit Eunice after GE had died.   GE and Eunice had two adopted children; Donnie and Josephine and haven't seen them in decades.

Below pix of GE VonCannon and Grandma Porter.  GE suffered from a diabetic low sugar level coma and never recovered.  He could speak a few words at times but that was about all.  GE owned the home in Ansonville, NC that his Mother lived in and Grandpa and Grandma Porter stayed there for many years, whereas Grandpa worked for Young Manufacturing Company in Norwood, NC until he was up into his seventies and they finally told him he had to stop working.  Grandma Porter kept children in her home as a source of income and both were very frugal.  Grandpa Porter was at the top of his game when it came to setting out rabbit boxes and sold many, many rabbits to the HiLo Store in Wadesboro, NC until they closed.   Grandpa was very quiet and easy going and Grandma "Lizzie" did most of the talking being totally opposite from Grandpa and her nickname for Grandpa was "Hawk."

My bride and myself while attending Grandma Porter's funeral, about 5 minutes into the funeral, I asked my bride, "Are we at the right funeral."  Grin if you must and you get my drift for sure!

Eunice and GE VonCannon below at the VA Hospital

Pix below of Gene Couick, Grandma Porter's brother and his wife Ruby.  Gene was a first class finish carpenter who worked with Lawrence Maxwell for many years.  Gene had a distinctive monotone voice that rarely changed pitch.

Below is the only pix that I have of Grandma Porter's Sister and Brother-in-Law: Naun and Walt Newton.  Walt kept that same "who licked the red off my candy" expression his entire life!  The antique oak hall tree in the background has a story behind it.  I had Grandma Porter to promise me if she ever decided to get rid of it, to give me first chance at it.  Back in the middle 1970s when they were moving to Wadesboro, I got a call from her and she said if I wanted the hall tree to come and get it the next day and the price was 100 dollars.  I told her Ok, and borrowed a truck and picked it up.  We still have it in our home today, whereas I really believe she thought I didn't have a hundred bucks at the time and wanted to give it to someone else in the family.....grin if you must!  Before she went into the nursing home, she had my bride and myself to come to her apartment and told us she wasn't going to leave us anything when she died and I told her that she didn't have anything we wanted to begin with.  She was one tough and hard Lady.  We tried for years to get a sweet potato pie recipe from her and she never would give it out and took the recipe to her grave with her. 

Below pix taken in November 1978 of Ma and Pa Porter and Mom and Pop.  Lizzie Porter had a broken arm at this time.

Grandma, Grandpa Porter, Billy Porter and Jeff Barker on the right around 1969.

Grandpa Porter kept a cigar close by most of the time.

Pixs below of Grandpa Porter from way back when.

Grandpa Porter with a good grin going there!

Grandma "Lizzie" Porter at the nursing home.

Below pix of Pop, Mickey, Joyce aka my Bride and Mom taken on 02-16-04.  Mom fixed us Pop's favorite meal; Rabbit and Gravy with white rice and home made biscuits.  Pop caught a few rabbits each season in his rabbit boxes and shared those with us.  Rabbit gravy is my all-time favorite gravy with Quail gravy being second.

Mom and Pop pix taken at our home on 03-21-04.

Pop with a turkey I harvested back on April 13, 2005.  Pop never turkey or deer hunted but rabbit and squirrel hunting was his passion, especially rabbit hunting with a pack of hounds or beagles.  Pop and Mom always kept their yard well manicured as long as their health was good!

Pop with one of his swings he has for sale.  He enjoyed making his swings and used "Old World Techniques" using a draw knife, hand plane and chisel to cut the curves with, etc.  I made him a couple hardened drill fixtures with bushings but he still drilled them free hand.

Web published update by Bill aka Mickey Porter on 06-21-15, 06-24-15 and 06-28-15.

Above picture of the Coley Immediate family members taken April 1956.  Aunt Mollie Bowers is the only one left in the above pix and she is third from the left.

Web published updates by Bill aka Mickey Porter on 06-28-15, 06-30-15, 07-21-15, 07-25-15, 07-26-15, 07-27-15 and 09-10-15.

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