6 Children of Forrest Hunter Stith and Alice (Bandy)
FROM Left to Right: Forrest Hunter Stith holding his grand-daughter Alice Elizabeth (Bunger), his wife Alice (Bandy), and their 6 children from youngest to oldest: Gertrude (Stith) Bunger, Lillian Stith [can't remember her married name but her daughter was Forest Kimbley], Ernest, "Aunt Bell" Belle (Stith) Wallace [mother of Mary Alice and Jack].Harold, Randall.
Bobby Hamilton said Lillian married "Uncle Billy" Billy Young. Her and Billy moved to California. In 1919, "Daddy Sam" and "Uncle Billy" farmed the 610 acre property [today's Hidden Spring Farm] from several tracts previously combined. When Billy and Lillian left the farm after less than 5 years of farming, Daddy Sam rented their 165-acre portion from them. Billy went to Louisville and worked a milk deliverer on a route for a milk company. Years later, as one of their grandsons was a good tap dancer and actor, they traveled with him to California to help him make his fortune in the California movie business. Lillian lived to the fine age of 99 years old! Before her passing, she returned to Kentucky, visiting Doe Run Inn amazing all with her fine hearing [she didn't wear a hearing aid], her conversation and personality, and the enjoyment of her little black cigarettes.
The grandson mentioned above was William E. Kimbley, known as Billy Kimbley, and was in several movies, including "Shep Comes Home". I have included a Movie Kids head shot on this page.
FROM Left to Right: Forrest Hunter Stith holding his grand-daughter Alice Elizabeth (Bunger), his wife Alice (Bandy), and their 6 children from youngest to oldest: Gertrude (Stith) Bunger, Lillian Stith [can't remember her married name but her daughter was Forest Kimbley], Ernest, "Aunt Bell" Belle (Stith) Wallace [mother of Mary Alice and Jack].Harold, Randall.
Bobby Hamilton said Lillian married "Uncle Billy" Billy Young. Her and Billy moved to California. In 1919, "Daddy Sam" and "Uncle Billy" farmed the 610 acre property [today's Hidden Spring Farm] from several tracts previously combined. When Billy and Lillian left the farm after less than 5 years of farming, Daddy Sam rented their 165-acre portion from them. Billy went to Louisville and worked a milk deliverer on a route for a milk company. Years later, as one of their grandsons was a good tap dancer and actor, they traveled with him to California to help him make his fortune in the California movie business. Lillian lived to the fine age of 99 years old! Before her passing, she returned to Kentucky, visiting Doe Run Inn amazing all with her fine hearing [she didn't wear a hearing aid], her conversation and personality, and the enjoyment of her little black cigarettes.
The grandson mentioned above was William E. Kimbley, known as Billy Kimbley, and was in several movies, including "Shep Comes Home". I have included a Movie Kids head shot on this page.
Internet research provided some info on Billy Kimbley, the child actor. The centered pictures below come from Movie Kids at http://www.moviekids.tv/code/talent/display.php?id=11576 The web site states Billy was born on Sunday Feb 2, 1936 and died Wednesday May 7, 1980 in California at 44 years of age. Another web search dug up additional roles, including a 1950 episode of The Gene Autry show, the role of "Eddie" in Prejudice (1949), and four uncredited 1948 roles: a "small boy" in Embraceable You, "Bert age 7" in Give My Regards to Broadway, "Boy at Hotel" in Panhandle, and "undetermined role" in Song Of My Heart.
This picture below happens to be taken in same setting as the first image on this page. Go back and compare the picket fence!
Lillian Stith is in the center back row. She is wearing the same dress as in another picture with all her brothers and sisters lined up by age.
Bobby and I were still unsure about identities of others pictured here, but Bobby thinks the older black woman could have been one of the cooks hired for such a large gathering.
Is Forrest Hunter Stith on the far right? And, are these different women from the first image? Their outfits are not the same.
Lillian Stith is in the center back row. She is wearing the same dress as in another picture with all her brothers and sisters lined up by age.
Bobby and I were still unsure about identities of others pictured here, but Bobby thinks the older black woman could have been one of the cooks hired for such a large gathering.
Is Forrest Hunter Stith on the far right? And, are these different women from the first image? Their outfits are not the same.