Calvin Leon Sego and Carrie Wright Sego of Gough ca. 1930. Photo from collection of Joseph H. Kitchens Jr. “Pop” Sego ran a tractor garage and service station beginning in the 1920’s’s after buying out the retiring blacksmith. They were both born at the turn of the century. Their early married lives are chronicled in “The Sun is Going Down on Gough, Part 1.”

In the image below is my grandfather Cyrus White Kitchens’ wife, mother in law and so, ca. 1916. As discussed in “The Sun is Going Down on Gough, Georgia Part 2,” “White” as he was known, founded the Bank of Gough. In white dress with dark sash is his wife (my grandmother) Tressie Gay Kitchens. The older lady is her mother, Mrs. Isaac Jackson Gay (Ellen Ponder Davis Gay). The child is, I believe, White and Tressie’s oldest son, Cyrus White Kitchens, Jr. A close look shows he is feeding a rooster beside a peach tree.

IF INTERESTED IN GOUGH , SEE MY EARLIER TWO PART SERIES ON GOUGH’S HISTORY AND THE KITCHENS AND SEGO FAMILIES.
“Uncle” J.T. Kitchens, brother of Cyrus White and son of William Harrison Kitchens, at the home of Isaac Jackson Gay. J.T. was active in the cotton ginning business. Notice the garters on his sleeves and the cigarette in his left hand. In his right is apparently an umbrella. William Harrison Kitchens built a home in Gough directly across the street from my grandparent’s home (Mr. and Mrs. Cyrus White Kitchens). This house burned in the 1920’s according to Mamie Sego Kitchens.

This portrait image is of Ellen Ponder Davis Gay ca. 1895, about twenty years younger than in the top photo with her daughter and grandson. Her husband, Tressie’s father, was one of the backers in White Kitchens’ banking and land sales enterprises. The Gay’s, Isaac and Ellen, are buried in the cemetery at Ways Baptist Church just over the line in Jefferson County near Stellaville. My grandfather and his brother, John Thomas (“JT”) grew up in nearby Davisboro in Washington County. Members of my Gay and Wright families relocated to Gough, Georgia. Photos of the women in my family strongly resemble this very attractive lady, whose even features and thoughtful expression are so familiar to me.

Cyrus White Kitchens (r) started the Bank of Gough and lived nearby. He is pictured with his son, Joseph Hugh Kitchens, Sr. (my father). According to family tradition, Joseph Hugh Kitchens, my father, was named after his uncle, Dr. Joseph Hudson, Gough’s only physician and brother-in-law of Tressie Gay Kitchens. Dr. Hudson was married to Nina Gay. Dr. and Mrs. Hudson lived in town on the Waynesboro Road, next door to Calvin and Carrie Sego. My father, my mother Mamie Sego and I (Joe Kitchens) were all delivered by Dr. Hudson.