Butler County, Alabama

Kern-Shine Family Photos

Shine family letters and photos

Shine tombstones at Oakey Streak Cemetery

Kern-Shine obituaries and Rachel Bates Kern's 84th Birthday Party

The photos on this page were submitted by Susan Shine Kilcrease.

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Simon Moses Kern Rachel Bates Kern
Simon Moses Kern
 
Rachel Bates Kern
1832 - 1926
 
Simon and Rachel are both buried at Magnolia Cemetery.
 
Shine and Kern Families in Greenville Kern Family Reunion 1920s
Shine and Kern Families in Greenville
 

Kern Family Reunion at Rachel Bates Kern's 90th birthday party in 1922, Rachel in center, daughter Laduska Shine on her right
 

Rosena Kern's House

Greenville home of Rosena Kern, daughter of Rachel Bates Kern and Simon Moses Kern, and sister to Laduska Kern Shine.
 

Dave Kern Family Portrait Etta and Martha Shine

Laduska Kern Shine's brother Dave and family.  Top row left to right:  Albert, Elizabeth, Horace Menefee and Harry. In front: Dave, Lurline and Ann(?)  Lurline is right in front of her husband.
 

Etta and Martha Rachel Shine, daughters of Augustus Shine who was brother to Uriah Hix, both sons of William Porter and Martha Hammond Shine
 

Daughter of James Henry Shine, William Porter Shine's nephew
Daughter of James Henry Shine, son of James Williams, William Porter Shine's brother
 
Queenie Elizabeth Shine, daughter of William Porter and Martha Hammond Shine Queenie Elizabeth Shine, daughter of William Porter and Martha Hammond Shine

Queenie Elizabeth Shine (May 9, 1868 - Apr 17, 1896), daughter of William Porter and Martha Hammond Shine
 

Wedding of Uriah Hix Shine and Laduska Idola Kern Dr. Uriah Hix Shine Making Rounds on His Horse

Wedding of Uriah Hix Shine and Laduska Idola Kern, 1874, in Butler County.

Dr. Uriah Hix Shine making rounds on his horse, in Texas
 

Laduska Kern Shine, wife of Uriah Hix Dr Uriah Hix Shine
Laduska Kern Shine, wife of Uriah Hix
 
Dr Uriah Hix Shine
Dr Uriah Hix Shine at midlife Henry Pilley
Dr Uriah Hix Shine at midlife
 
Henry Pilley
Missouri Shine Pilley, Rachel Bates Kern and Ida Missouri Shine Pilley

Missouri (Suber, Zou, Zouri) Shine Pilley, Rachel Bates Kern and Ida Kern

Missouri Shine Pilley, daughter of William Porter and Martha Hammond Shine
 
Missouri Shine Pilley Family
Missouri Shine Pilley Family

Transcriber’s notes in [ ] by Susan Shine Kilcrease, her great great niece. All other notes original.

  1. Emma Pilley (Henry’s widow)
  2. Byrdie Pilley-Porter’s wife
  3. Robert Pilley-Porter’s baby
  4. Porter Pilley
  5. Floy Pilley [mentioned as very ill in 1891 letters from Queenie and Missouri]
  6. Effie Stabler
  7. Lois Bobbitt
  8. J.T. Bobbitt (Lois’ eldest)
  9. Harris Pilley (Porter’s Eldest)
  10. Neoma Bobbitt (Lois’ youngest and the only girl among the grandchildren)
  11. Grandma Pilley [Missouri]
  12. Bascom Pilley (Emma’s boy)
  13. Grand-Daddy Pilley [Missouri’s husband, Henry Bascom Pilley Sr] (Good Luck November !) [unknown meaning]
  14. Jack Bobbitt-(Lois’s middleman) (He gets the profits.)
  15. Jack Pilley (Porter’s middleman)-( He gives the “devil” to all who care for him)

 
Augustus Shine, brother of Uriah Hix and Missouri Martha Frazier Shine
Augustus Shine Martha Frazier Shine

Son and daughter of William Porter and Martha Hammond Shine, and brother and sister of Uriah Hix and Missouri, all born mid 19th century in Butler county.
 

Maggie Bell Shine Maggie Bell Shine Hayes

Maggie Bell Shine Hayes, daughter of Augustus Shine who was brother to Uriah Hix, both sons of William Porter and Martha Hammond Shine.
 

Polk Co, Texas, Tombstone of Mary Carter Hammond, mother of Martha Hammond Shine, wife of William Porter Shine Polk Co, Texas, Tombstone of John Hammond, brother of Martha Hammond Shine, wife of William Porter Shine

Polk Co, Texas, Tombstone of Mary Carter Hammond (d. Jun 1866), mother of Martha Hammond Shine, wife of William Porter Shine
 

Polk Co, Texas, Tombstone of John Hammond (16 Sep 1803 - 1862), brother of Martha Hammond Shine
 

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