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John Melvin Waldrip

John Melvin Waldrip

Named quoted contributor · Oral record

Records, photographs and recollections gathered in the corpus.

Preserved Photographs

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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A woman in a headscarf and a light dress sits on a wooden bench holding two infants, with a young girl standing beside her.
Evelyn with the twins, and Janice beside her.

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A young man in a white shirt holds two infants, one in each arm, smiling at the camera.
"Proud papa Floyd", the caption says. The twins, at Young.

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Associated Claims & Citations

  1. 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.

  2. 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

  3. 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

  4. sourced

    Telephone Warehouse, on McDowell in Phoenix, has run since 1982 and employed four generations of relatives.

    phoneware.us/about, opened 2026-09-08: "Phoneware Cloud-Based Telecom was established in 2010 as an outgrowth of Telephone Warehouse, a business-telephone systems integrator that has served thousands of organizations since 1982." The tape remains the only source for the four generations. · https://phoneware.us/about/

  5. unverified

    The tree records the twins' birth on 22 June 1938 at Young, and still lists John Melvin as living.

    the family's Geni tree export (private), "1 BIRT 2 DATE 22 JUN 1938 3 CITY Young 3 STAE Arizona"; no death event; the export was opened 2026-09-07, the underlying record was not

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