Raney Days has been well received by many members of
the Raney family.
Two days before the reunion August 2nd, I found a
phone number for Shula Rose Raney. She lives in Ft. Lauderdale and is the
great-granddaughter of Edward and Helen Raney.
She verified that the photo on page 92 of Raney Days
is her father Augustus “Gus” Eaves Raney, son of Edward Davis and Von Etta
Eaves Raney. The photo on page 93 of Von Etta Raney, Shula Rose says is, in
fact, a photo of her grandmother.
Very few photos that were available to me when selecting
pictures for the book had been labeled
as to who the person was. Some were incorrectly labeled. I was greatly relieved
to find that I had gotten photos of both Gus and Von Etta Raney that were
actually photos of them.
I'm pretty excited about the prospects of the museum
receiving Von Etta's paintings as mentioned in Ms. Raney' s note to me. When I
talked with Shula Rose on the phone she said that she will get the art work to
us soon. The AAHS will be glad, appreciative, and honored to place her work in
the museum.
Shula Rose is my father's first cousin. I would really like to connect with her!
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