Averitt family photos & letters for sale
There is a great auction I found of personal letters and photos on ebay, I thought it might be very nice for the collection to find its way "home" again:
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Today, I will be posting 17 lots of photos, letters and miscellaneous related items from the William Averitt and Aletha Cox estate.
Both Bill and Aletha served in the Navy during WWII, and I do "believe" that may have been how they met. Bill was out of the Navy prior to Aletha, and she served in Hawaii. If I am correct about them meeting in the Navy, I believe they did so in California or maybe Hawaii.
During the last year or so, while Aletha was still serving, Bill was at home with his father in Greenwood, Indiana. This would have been around 1945.
The details on this particular lot are: This lot includes 102 photos, and they look to be mostly of Bill's side of the family. There are loose photos, a few pages of photos from another album, and there is an album of family photos. All of the photos on the pages or in the album are held in by corner tabs. You can remove them if you like without causing damage.
The album is wonderfully captioned, indentifying most of the folk. They are simple identifications such as: David, Donna, Dad, Elberts Furlough, Uncle Tom & Aunt Margaret, Thomas, Jean, Dad & Me, Granpa, and the like. You will see Bill in some of the photos, and he was the fellow who captioned this book.
The four loose pages have a few military related photos. One is captioned VJ Day in Frisco . The pic of two sailors is captioned Couple Salts, and the photo of just one sailor is captioned H.R. Hilton. The loose pictures are mostly of people, with some great group shots. This lot may not be the most visually stimulating collection of photos that I have posted right now, but it's probably the most important in regard to family history.
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