In October I will be going back through my collection of pictures that have been handed down from members of the family, some with long stories attached and some with very few details, but I want to record what I know. My Mother is suffering from serious dementia and I realize that the memories we think we will never forget are still fallible.
In this picture, you see the young girl. This is my Mother, Priscilla June Slack, eventually to be Mrs. Paul E. Miller, as she would sign her name through my life. She is standing beside a cousin or aunt, named Verna Lafferty, where Verna was living in the hills above Meeteetse Wyoming. The Woman standing alone is my Mom's Paternal Grandmother, Emma Bell Lafferty Slack, Born in 1875, a Lafferty, in the area which would become South Dakota, with a lot of Sioux Laffertys still on reservation land in South Dakota. She lived with the Sioux in the time of The battle of the Little Big Horn and the massacre by the calvary in retaliation at Wounded Knee. She married a white stage driver and moved to NW Wyoming, to the area where Buffalo Bill was establishing the new town of Cody, Wyoming when she was 17, and danced with Buffalo Bill Cody, and raised four sons, and lived until 1973, when I was 10 years old. Her father disowned her for her marriage and she wasn't allowed back to see her Mom until her Dad died when she was 56.
Going through old family photos are so interesting. It is so important to collect the info of them while we can. This is so interesting about members of your family
