Homer Poindexter Grace

Uncle Homer

my great-uncle, brother of Victor Allen Grace

The Abbeville Herald

July 3, 1930

buried in the Shorterville Baptist Church Cemetery

Henry County, Alabama

I actually have some memories of Uncle Homer.  We would visit him at his home, not far from my grandparents' place.  I remember he was in a wheelchair.  In the photo above, I think he looks a bit like the actor Martin Sheen, when Sheen would have been that age.

The man with the white hat on, sitting on bench with his legs crossed, is Homer Grace!  The man

in the middle who just rolled a cigarette, and still has the lit match in hand, about to light the 

cigarette.  This is Mr. Billy Mills.  The other man on the bench is W.C. Miliner.  The man in the 

distance on the ground is T.J. Kennedy, Elaines's “future father in law”!!  The man doodling in the 

ground is Clarence Hayes.  This was taken at E.P. Chambers' store, the one only a few feet from 

Daddy's, and is still standing. I witnessed many scenes like this growing up in Shorterville-----and 

there were many, many more men than this always sitting around playing dominoes, etc.    A treasure I 

can’t forget!  - Robert Edward Phillips