I visited with Mary Emma today and showed her the photographs I got
    from Zelma McCord.  She was unable to date the old portraits of Roscoe
    but she thinks it would be soon after WWI.  The other 2 family
    portraits she can date from the photo of herself.  She says she was
    approximately 9 years old in the photograph which would make the photo
    in 1927 or 1928.  She is wearing a dress which was made for her by
    Carline.  She notes it was freshly made because the hem at the bottom
    had not been sharply pressed. The mink around her neck was loaned to
    her from Carline.   I noted a photograph made at this same time was
    used in the Commercial Appeal newstory in 1934 concerning the
    London-Melbourne race.  What had not been apparent from that photo until
    I compared them was that the newspaper had cut out the outline of the
    father and slid it over, covering up all of Mary Emma except the left
    side of the top of her head.  Unless you are looking for it, you would
    never notice it. Mary Emma said she was never aware they did that.
                                                                  

    Looking at the photo of the whole family, Mary Emma recalled memories
    of each of her family members.  Cass worked at the time of the photo
    for Galtney Motor Co., the Ford dealer at that time around 1927 or
    1928.  She could not remember what car dealership Roscoe had- STAR or
    GREY.  Mrs. Blanch Kemp's (who lives on Linden St.) husband Dewey,
    worked for Roscoe and may have pictures and more information.  Roscoe
    and Carline moved to Richmond, Virginia.   Around 1929 when Mary
    Emma was 11, Roscoe moved from Richmond to Hollywood.  She remembers
    Robert driving her mother, herself and Cass to Richmond.  Cass was
    going to drive Carline's car back to Corinth since Carline did not want
    to drive cross country. She remembers Cass driving Carline's car which
    was a GREY and her mother and she going and getting separated from Cass
    in Virginia.  Roscoe and Carline flew from Richmond, VA to Hollywood.

    Her brother Robert was her best friend in life as well as her
    brother.  He left Corinth working for Mr. McNair, the Western Union
    maintenance group, who hired him to paint signs for the company.  They
    moved across the southeast and worked much of the time in the Carolinas
    and Virginia. While working for Western Union, the company furnished
    accommodations on a work train.  After leaving Western Union, he worked
    for Caldwell & Co. in Nashville for several years. He became an aviator
    while living in that area.  He managed hotels in Birmingham, Alabama and
    El Paso, Texas.  He and brother, Abe, then managed a privately owned
    hotel in Cushing, Oklahoma- the Hotel Ambassador.  They decided to go
    into other lines of employment and Abe went with the Internal Revenue
    Service in Oklahoma City and Robert became office manager for the company
    Roscoe formed in Indianapolis.

    She recalls her father's affectionate nickname for Carline, Roscoe's
    first wife,  was "Jaybird".



    Mary Emma Turner Whitaker to Milton Sandy, Jr.
    Corinth, Mississippi - March 18, 1993