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                                 Above and Below: Friendship Baptist Church Singing, circa 1898. Bottom far right: George and Molly
                                    Roper. 
     
                                  
                                 
                                     
                                 
                                 
                                     
                                 
                                 Above and Below: Friendship Singing. Above left center: Arta Collett Roper Below:
                                    A.E. (Ed) Bramblett and George Bramblett  
                                  
                                 
                                     
                                 
                                 Below: Second Row far left Dr. James A. Otwell, Sr.,
                                    Second Row Third from Right Arta Collett (Roper), circa 1900.  
                                  
                                 
                                     
                                 
                                 
                                     
                                 
                                 Above: Mahulda Redd Family, circa 1915 Below: Mahulda Redd House on Roper Road, constructed circa 1848.  
                                  
                                 
                                     
                                 
                                 
                                     
                                 
                                 Above: Arboth Bramblett Family at the George Roper home, 1927  Below: George Bramblett Family at the George
                                    Roper home, 1927 
                                  
                                 
                                     
                                 
                                 
                                     
                                 
                                 Above: Ed Bramblett Family, Bobby Tallant, Fletta Bramblett,
                                    Almon Hill, Maude and John Stewart 
                                  
                                 
                                     
                                 
                                 Above: George Roper Family, 1927 Below: Royston Smity Family at George Roper home, 1927  
                                  
                                 
                                     
                                 
                                 
                                     
                                 
                                 Above: Mahulda Redd's 100th Birthday Celebration
                                    with 22 of her grandchildern, September 1929. Below: Mahulda Redd's 100th Birthday party
                                    with 300 of her closest relatives and friends at the George Roper home on Roper Road, September 1929.   
                                  
                                 
                                     
                                 
                                 
                                 Above: Closer view of some attendees: Charles E.
                                    Roper at age 9, Almon Hill, Arboth Bramblett, and many others. Below: Mahulda
                                    Redd, Della Martin, Marha Wallace, Paul Martin and Paul's small daughter, making five generations.  
                                  
                                 
                                     
                                 
                                 
                                     
                                 
                                 
                                     
                                 
                                 
                                     
                                 
                                 
                                 Above: Ben Roper House, courtesy of George Emory Pirkle Below: Ben Roper Store, courtesy of George Emory Pirkle 
                                  
                                 
                                 
                                     
                                 
                                 
                                     
                                 
                                 Above: George and Arta Roper on their 50th wedding
                                    anniversary. Below: Charles F. and Rebecca Roper, parents of George.  
                                  
                                 
                                     
                                 
                                 
                                     
                                 
                                 Above and Below: Charles E. Roper, starting early on
                                    his life with chickens and cows. 
                                  
                                 
                                     
                                 
                                 
                                     
                                 
                                 
                                     
                                 
                                 
                                     
                                 
                                 
                                     
                                 
                                 Above: Friendship Road Crew, neighborhood volunteers building
                                    and reparing local roads, includes George and Raymond Roper, Hillard Rollins, Ed Bramblett Below: Friendship Baptist Church images from the past 175 years.  
                                  
                                 
                                 
                                     
                                 
                                 Above: Friendship School, circa 1900. Arta Collett (Roper) top
                                    left.  
                                  
                                 Below: Several pictures of different Friendship school
                                    classes dating from 1915 to 1935.  
                                  
                                 
                                     
                                 
                                 Above: Friendship School, circa 1915.  
                                 
                                     
                                 
                                 
                                     
                                 
                                 
                                     
                                 
                                 
                                     
                                 
                                 
                                     
                                 
                                 
                                     
                                 
                                 
                                     
                                 
                                 
                                 
                                 
                                     
                                       
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                                 Above: The Hillard and Sallie Rollins House before it fell,
                                    courtesy of George Emory Pirkle 
                                  
                                 
                                     
                                       
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                                 Below: William Nelson McConnell  
                                 
                                 Below: Mark and Estelle Rollins Green   
                                 
                                     
                                       
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                                  Below: George and Arta with Linton and Bera Groover at the
                                    Roper home.
                                  
                                 
                                     
                                       
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                                 Above: The George Roper house, constructed in 1898, as
                                    it appeared in 1975. Below: The George Roper house after two restorations,
                                    the first in 1976 and the second in 2011.  
                                  
                                 
                                     
                                       
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                                 Below: Some very kind words from my friend George Emory
                                    Pirkle. 
                                  
                                 
                                 
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