MySource:Srblac/Interview with Naomi Reichard Peebles

On Jack and Effie Reichard Family

Jack (Reichard) pitched for the Edwards and Moore Milk Company Dairy Maids. Jack was a baker. During the depression he worked for the light plant for the city, before they built the store onto the house. Jack was six feet tall.

Ken (Reichard) and Keith Reichard got in trouble because they switched some cookies for cowpies on their grandma Cooper (Cynthia Baily) before a ladies club meeting. Ken Reichard worked himself through college. Kenneth taught Naomi to drive in a 1924? Roadster.

Memories from Interview with Naomi Reichard Peebles

Reichards are from High Point, NC.

Emmanuel (Reichard) was a very quiet man. Mary Hamm was also quiet. Emmanuel built houses as a building contractor. He built 3/4 of the buildings in Kingman (Indiana). Emmanuel built his own house. Jack (Reichard) worked for him as a hod-carrier as a kid.

Marion Alva was uncle "Alvy". He was a mail carrier. He was in his 80s when he died. He was still alive when (brother) John Bert died. Aunt (Sarah) Agnes didn't have any children of her own. She raised her husbands children. Ernest Miles and Buelah Reichard also had a son named Charles.

On Cary and Cynthia Baily Cooper Family

Cary Cooper was very grandfatherly and told lots of stories. Cynthia (Baily) would rein him in when his stories diverted too much from the truth.

Cary Coopers mother and father (James Cooper and Lucinda Allen) built a house next door. Cary’s father James Cooper built a "weaning house" where his kids could live for a few years after they got married.

Jack Reichard helped his father-in-law Cary Cooper get his Civil War pension. Cary Cooper helped hunt for John Wilkes Booth after Lincoln was shot.

Notes on pictures

Effie Mae was 16 in the young portrait.

The picture with three ladies is of Naomi, Effie, and Donna. Wallace Peebles had just asked Naomi to marry him. They met when she was a senior in high school and they didn't get married for several years. Picture would be from ~1934.

The Cary and Cynthia picture is of Cary, Cynthia and cousin "Node", Nora. Nora helped take care of them.

Naomi took the Ken and Gertrude picture at Wabash college.

The construction picture is from when Jack and Effie were building the store onto the house.

The picture with the four children is outside the house in Mellott. Zulieme, Keith & Ken, and Naomi is the youngest. Keith is on the left.