Elise Ayers poses with her brother, Harry Brandt "Brandy" Ayers at the family home in Anniston, Calhoun County. Elise would go on to become a noted novelist and journalist, and Brandy would take the helm of the family's Anniston Star Publishing Company, founded by their father, Harry Mell Ayers.
Elise and Harry Ayers as Children
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Courtesy of the W. S. Hoole Special Collections Library, University of Alabama Libraries
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