Drury "Drew" L. Lisenby; detail from larger family photo, made in early 1900s. From the Collection of Marie Gulledge Wiggins. Submitted to Findagrave by Jo Church Dickerson.

Drury "Drew" Lisenby & Sarah Ann Rivers Lisenby family, sitting for a photo on the side of the "Drew House" on Hwy 9 near Hopewell Church. Drew and wife Sarah Ann are sitting on front right, Sarah Ann is holding one of the youngest grandchildren. Sitting beside them are her sister Margaret Rivers Lisenby, and his sister, Laney Lisenby. Standing in the left rear are Sarah Bessie "Bess" Lisenby and her husband, Johnny Rochelle Brantley. In the row beside them are several of the brothers who I cannot identify, except to note that one of the taller ones was Leander. I also remember Aunt Theat and Aunt Della, but cannot identify them in this youthful photo.

It must have been a celebration, for three people are holding large flower bouquets, and two are holding what appear to be a cake and a pie.

The photo was made probably sometime between 1905 and the 19-teens, for their granddaughter, Grace Ballard Gulledge (b. 1904), was either the baby on Sarah Ann's lap, or the older girl standing at her grandparents' shoulders, behind and between them. (She was pointed out to me many years ago, but I cannot remember which now, just that she was one or the other.) I thought Mom (Marie Gulledge Wiggins) wrote all the names down, but I've not been able to find them.

If anyone can positively identify any of the others in the photo it would be most appreciated.

Photo from the collection of Marie Gulledge Wiggins. Submitted by Jo Church Dickerson, December 2013.
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The below data on the nine children of Drew & Sarah Ann Rivers Lisenby is as given in the book, "Our Lisenby Lines" by Marie Gulledge Wiggins (1993). Della is the only one not linked - if you find/link her let me know and I will fix this caption.

- James Preston "Press" Lisenby (1864-1941, linked) mar. Susannah "Annie" Roscoe.

- Lewis Trusty Lisenby (1871-1956) mar. Mary Ann Elizabeth "Mollie" Tucker, bur Hopewell.

- Thetis "Theat" Lisenby (1872-1953) mar Thomas Dertrus "Duck" Hancock, bur Hermitage Baptist Church Cem, Camden, Kershaw Co., SC. [I could not find Aunt Theat in Hermitage Cem, but Julious found her listed as Lela Hancock at the Kershaw Cemetery, and has now linked her to her parents. Either Mom got her burial place wrong, or her grave was moved. Mom also didn't have her first name which was apaprently Lela. I remember Aunt Theat so well; she was one of those great old characters of my childhood with a boundless sense of humor and a warm heart. -jcd]

- Charlie C. Lisenby (1873-1950, linked) mar. Minnie Lou Lisenby.

- Eliza Jane Lisenby (1878-1905, linked) mar. Eli Washington "Watt" Ballard.

- Robert Franklin Lisenby (1879-1911) mar. Pearl A. McFarland., bur. Hopewell.

- Sarah Bessie "Bess" Lisenby (1880-1954, linked) mar. Johnny Rochelle Brantley.

- Leander G. Lisenby (1887-1976, linked) mar. 1/ Louise Victoria Fincher, mar. 2/ Effie Gulledge.

- DELLA Lisenby (1890-1976) mar. Lewis Jacobs, bur. Mt. Olivet Cem, Chesterfield Co., but there are two, and denomination is not given in the book. No memorial found on Findagrave in either cemetery, 2013.

Drury "Drew" Lisenby Home on Hwy 9 near Hopewell Baptist Church. It was later the home of Drew's son, Leander Lisenby. I remember birthday dinners for Uncle Leander (my great grandmother Eliza Jane Lisenby Ballard's brother) in the backyard with other brothers and sisters who were still living in the 1940s and 1950s. Photo by Jo Church Dickerson, January, 2013.