Lucinda's Family Archival Photo's

Early 1900's photo of Ethel Raffield in Auburn Florida, (Current location of Tyndall Air Force Base. The Raffield's were forced from their ancestral lands in 1941 by the US government to make way for the Air Force Base. Their homes, fish houses and docks were used as target practice to train fighter pilots for the war.) Photo from my Aunt Sue Wooten, Ethel's daughter. Ethel is my paternal Grandmother, and judging by this photo a Pariah in her own time. She died, June 16th, 1965, at the age of 71.

A brief bio on my great grandfather from the Panama City Lighthouse website. Charles Jackson Raffield was born November, 18, 1860 in Eastman, Colquitt County, Georgia, and died September 25, 1928 in Farmdale, Florida inside Tyndall AFB. Raffield family at Auburn with the famed boat, The Hypnotist

Raffield family at Auburn with the famed boat, The Hypnotist

He married Nancy Ann Rodgers November 6, 1879. About 1895 Charles Jackson Raffield left the farm at Eastman, Georgia and moved to Florida. He made his way to Live Oak, Florida where he lived for a short time while building a church. From there, he went to Frank and Sneads to build Baptist and Methodist churches. From Sneads, he moved to Jackson Bluff (named after him) on the Ochlocknee River, near Bloxam. He trapped otter and alligators, skinned and cured the hides and shipped them. He moved to Wetappo Creek where he began to fish. During this time, living in an isolated area, he could not get a "bought" cast net. His wife Nancy crocheted his first cast net at Wetappo Creek. It was some time later before he found where to special order the twine for making nets.

In 1900, the family moved to Auburn. By this time the family had increased to include Cullen, Susie, Clayton, Lacy, Ethel, and Henry. He continued with his trapping of otter and alligator, increased his fishing skills, and dealt in lumber and turpentine. Charles Jackson Raffield's first large fishing boat was the Isabelle, a 45ft sailing yawl. It had a two-cylinder Wolverine engine. He built the Isabelle at Auburn on East St Andrews Bay. The "Big Liz" was a seine skiff used with the Isabelle to haul the seine for the strike. His second big fishing boat was the "Hypnotist", a 55 foot schooner with a 16 foot beam. He bought it in from Mississippi where it was used as an oyster boat. In 1916 came the "Sea Queen".

Charles Hodges, my Dad, in a wartime photo from 1942. Charles is the eldest son of Ethel Raffield and Crawford L Hodges. He married Kathyrn Lippy, in 1958, in Lucibelle, Mississippi . Their three children are: my brother, David Allen, me, Lucinda Marie, and my sister, Carmen Sue.

Margaret Koerner - Lippy, photo from the early 1920's. Margaret is my maternal Grandmother. Rumor has it she was the first woman in town to bob her hair and drive a car.

Early 1900's family photo of the Koerner's. My Grandmother Margaret is in the front dressed in white. Her Mother, Florence, died when Margaret was 12, on Christmas Eve, on the steps of the Lutheran Church in Manchester, Maryland; so this might have been one of the last family photo's with Florence. Photo from, Shirley Lippy, Margaret's second daughter.

Margaret Lippy, 83 years young in 1991, with her Granddaughter, Carmen, in Missoula, Montana.

Kathyrn Hodges, my Mom, spring of 1999 in Clarkston Washington. Photo from Carmen Hodges, Kathy's second daughter.

Stanley, Idaho at the Miller wedding in 1992. From left to right: Kathryn Hodges, Jill Aanonsen, me, and my sons Trask and Jesse.

My youngest two children: Emmett Charles, and Margaret May Kathryn, in 2004 Lowell Park, Missoula, MT.

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