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John Franklin Waldrip

John Franklin Waldrip

Named quoted contributor · Oral record

Records, photographs and recollections gathered in the corpus.

Preserved Photographs

John Franklin Waldrip, Lola Davis, and Floyd Home from Hunting
John Franklin Waldrip, Lola Davis Waldrip, and young Floyd Raymond Waldrip returning from hunting in the Sierra Ancha / Pleasant Valley area with packhorse, deer, and wild turkey (circa 1914). Preserved across family album prints, Geni media archives, and restored negatives.

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Four Generations of Waldrip Men: George, John, Floyd, Melvin & Marvin
Historic 1938 four-generation portrait in Pleasant Valley: eighty-year-old George Thomas Waldrip, his son John Franklin, grandson Floyd Raymond, and infant twin great-grandsons John Melvin and Marvin Charles Waldrip. Preserved in album prints, formal portrait mounts, and restored negatives.

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Four generations of Waldrip men standing outside the pioneer log cabin
Four generations of Waldrip men standing in work clothes outside the pioneer log cabin. Preserved from archive folder Family Reunion (file 4 GENERATIONS STANDING.tif).

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The same session outside a log house: the four men and the boy, now with women and other children gathered on the porch.
The second exposure, outside the log house. Floyd holds one twin, Evelyn holds the other. Janice, five, sits on the bench between them. John Franklin stands with his hat in his hand. The four men and the boy are in the same clothes as in the yard frame.

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Associated Claims & Citations

  1. sourced

    "George Waldrip's family will move to the logging camp for the summer. Mr. Waldrip and two sons are employed there."

    The Alamogordo News, 22 April 1905, page 3, under the local heading MOUNTAIN PARK; opened 2026-09-08 at loc.gov. The citation carried here said page 7; the issue has four pages. · https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn92070566/1905-04-22/ed-1/?sp=3

  2. sourced

    "J F Waldrip / Young / c ls-rh h ls-t", entry 7261, with the brand printed as a glyph.

    Brand book of the state of Arizona, 1921 (archived reader), printed p. 50, scan leaf 56, opened 2026-09-08. The book contains no letters "WX"; the expansion of the placement codes is not asserted because the legend page has not been read.

  3. unverified

    1930, Young Precinct: "John F. Waldrip, Head, age 48... Stockman, Cattle Ranch, Own Account; Lola M., Wife, age 41; Floyd R., Son, age 21, single, born New Mexico, Laborer on Cattle Ranch".

    1930 U.S. Census, Gila County, AZ, Young Precinct 17, ED 4-48, p. 1B, family 16, NARA T626; not opened

  4. inferred

    The four identifications come from the family's caption and from reading the faces against the birth dates. Nothing is written on the print.

    family caption george-john-floyd-melvin-and-marvin-waldrip-circa-1938_2093703177; the project's note on the photographs. Writing on the back of the original would make this sourced.

  5. inferred

    It was taken in the summer of 1938 at Young, almost certainly on the homestead: the twins are weeks old and the second frame shows the log house.

    from the two files against the twins' birth date; no date on either print

  6. sourced

    This is a photograph, restored without a model. Nothing in it was generated, and nothing generated appears in this chapter.

    the family's photographs, supplied 2026-09-08 (private); restoration parameters and source checksums held with them, "generative": false; the restoration inpainted a few hundred pixels for dust; opened 2026-09-08

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