Photos from the Family Album of Ghote Sandy Perkins
Daughter of Constance Geraldine Downing from Machipongo, VA, and Dale Hance Corbin from Painter, VA.

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3 Generations of Higbee.jpg (177071 bytes) Annie B.Pearson and Dorothy Higbee.jpg (87695 bytes) Arinthia Sarah Jane Bell Higbee.jpg (91875 bytes)

Father and sons. 1934
From left: John Clark Higbee, 
Ira Joseph Higbee, John William Higbee. 
Myrtle Grove Farm, Machipongo, ESVA 
 

Grandmother and granddaughter. Circa 1925.
Annie Bell Bradford Pearson and 
Dorothy Ann Higbee 
Arinthia Sarah Jane Bell Higbee
Wife of John Clark Higbee
Circa 1878 tin-type. 
Barber Shop and Dale Hance Corbin.jpg (92404 bytes) Birdsnest School abt 1925.jpg (116246 bytes) Downing Decendants.jpg (96065 bytes)
Dale Hance Corbin
Sandy's father.
Circa 1929 in his father's barber shop in Painter, ESVA. 
Dale was the son of 
Stephen Grady Corbin and 
Hattie Marie Whaley.
 
Bird's Nest School in Bird's Nest, Northampton County, ESVA.
Circa 1925, the year Sandy's grandmother, Dorothy Higbee Downing, graduated.
 
Downing Descendants
Circa 1920 
Probably in Birdsnest, VA.
 Please click on the photo for
 details on these Downings.
Dale Hance Corbin.jpg (119790 bytes) Ira and Lillian Pearson Higbee.jpg (90628 bytes) Rinnie Leaton Pearson.jpg (104025 bytes)
Dale Hance Corbin
About 1942.
Painter, ESVA
Ira Joseph Higbee and 
Lillian Susan Pearson Higbee. 
Thought to have been taken on their wedding day, October 2, 1899, in Machipongo, VA. 
Ira was the son of John Clark Higbee and
 Arinthia Sarah Jane Bell Higbee. 
Lillian was the daughter of 
John Zachary Taylor Pearson and 
Annie Bell Bradford Pearson.
 
Rinnie Leaton Pearson
Daughter of John Zachary Taylor Pearson
and Annie Bell Bradford Pearson.
Sister of Lillian Susan Pearson Higbee.
About 1910.
Tabitha Wyatt Joynes Ward Bradford.jpg (90859 bytes) James and Dorothy Higbee Downing.jpg (112634 bytes) Watch House 1904.jpg (182290 bytes)
Tabitha Wyatt Joynes Ward Bradford
About 1924.
James and Dorothy Higbee Downing
Circa 1935
Myrtle Grove Farm, Machipongo, ESVA
Sandy's grandparents. 
Dorothy was the daughter of 
Ira Joseph Higbee and 
Lillian Susan Pearson. 
James was the son of 
John Custis Downing and 
Bettie Walters Boole.
Men of the Watch House
1904
From left: John Isdell, Ira Higbee, 
John C. Higbee, Walter Conover, 
James "Will" Ward
Annie Smith Higbee Mitchell.jpg (112229 bytes) card of Annie Smith Higbee.jpg (83143 bytes) Arinthia Sarah Jane Higbee and George Edward Groton Fletcher.jpg (121904 bytes)
Annie Smith Higbee Mitchell Card of Annie Smith Higbee Arinthia Sarah Jane Higbee and George Edward Groton Fletcher
James William and Dorothy Ann Higbee Downing - June 1925.jpg (117897 bytes) Graduation Anonouncement for Birdsnet 1925.jpg (127121 bytes) Graduation Announcement of Dorothy Ann Higbee.jpg (142921 bytes)
James William and Dorothy Ann Higbee Downing - June 1925 Graduation Anonouncement for Birdsnet 1925 Graduation Announcement of Dorothy Ann Higbee
card of Ira Joseph Higbee.jpg (101587 bytes) front of card of Stephen Grady Corbin.jpg (103546 bytes) inside of card of Stephen Grady Corbin.jpg (128584 bytes)
Card of Ira Joseph Higbee Front of card of Stephen Grady Corbin Inside of card of Stephen Grady Corbin
Leona Lilly and Mina Susan Higbee.jpg (130964 bytes) Randolph Higbee.jpg (73164 bytes) Click here for information
about some of these people
Leona Lilly and Mina Susan Higbee Randolph Higbee
 

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