The Claude Chaney Family, c1946.

Larry, born in October 1945.

Cousins

Chop holding Snowball with Larry.

Larry, Neale and Chop

Harvest Day

George's birthday

George's 5th birthday

Annelle and Chop

Larry at the Baum's

George

Claude with one of the cows

Claude, Larry, Neale with Snowball

Maudie Ruth

Chop and Larry with Snowball

Claude (left) is holding Larry Dean, Maudie Ruth (right), Robert Neale (front center), Charles Claude (front right). Cross Plains, Texas.

In the side yard of the house on the Jimmie Neal place 14 miles west of Cross Plains, Callahan County, Texas. The house was to the left of where the camera is located.

Robert Neale Chaney, Patsy Jo Canady, George Fred Baum, Annelle Baum, Jacka Nell Canady, Charles Claude Chaney. (1st cousins) Probably taken in late 1946 or early 1947. Behind the house on the Jimmie Neal place 14 miles west of Cross Plains, Callahan County, Texas.

Charles Claude Chaney holding Snowball. Larry Dean Chaney. Probably taken in late 1946 or early 1947. Behind the house on the Jimmie Neal place 14 miles west of Cross Plains, Callahan County, Texas.

Larry Dean, Charles Claude and Robert Neale Chaney on the farm 14 miles west of Cross Plains, Texas. 1946. The machine ground grain.

On the Jimmie Neal place 14 miles west of Cross Plains, Callahan County, Texas. Claude Chaney, Leo Baum, Robert Neale Chaney, George Fred Baum, Annelle Baum, Charles Claude Chaney, Larry Dean Chaney.

George Fred Baum's 5th birthday at the Baum house about 14 miles west of Cross Plains. Larry Dean Chaney, front. Robert Neale Chaney, Charles Claude Chaney, Annelle Baum and George Fred Baum (left to right). June 1947.

George Fred Baum's 5th birthday at the Baum house west of Cross Plains. Annelle Baum, Charles Claude Chaney, (??), (??), George Fred Baum, Robert Neale Chaney. June 1947.

Annelle Baum and Charles Claude Chaney at the Baum's farm west of Cross Plains, Texas. 1947.

Larry Dean at the Baum house. June 1947. It was around the tree behind Larry that hundreds of tarantulas would swarm in the heat of a summer day.

George Fred Baum at the Baum house west of Cross Plains, Texas. c1947. Taken from the interior of the Baum's Ford Model T.

Claude Chaney on the farm east of Cross Plains, Texas. The family moved to this farm in the summer of 1947 where they lived for one year.

Claude Chaney with Larry Dean and Robert Neale on the farm east of Cross Plains, Texas.

Maudie Ruth Chaney in the front yard of the farm east of Cross Plains, Texas.

Charles Claude and Larry Dean Chaney on the back porch of the farm house east of Cross Plains, Texas. The dog is a Spitz, Snowball.