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​Children of the Great Depression - 1936, South Texas Brush Country

Three teenage girls, left to right, Louise Pyron, age 14, Ruth Pyron, about 15 and Mary Pyron, age 16.

Two younger children, left to right Bernard Pyron, about 4, and Virginia Pyron, about 9.  Ruth and Virginia Pyron are children of William Milton (Casey) Pyron and Della Lancaster Pyron.  Louise, Mary and Bernard are the children of Blake B. and Mabel Moote Pyron. George Pyron, born 1918, is the fourth child of Blake and Mabel who is not in this photo. Blake and Milton Pyron, the fathers of these five children, were brothers.
That dress Virginia has on looks like someting that was made from a plain white flour sack.  People in the Brush Country southwest of San Antonio did make dresses from flour sacks in the thirties. Flour and feed sacks were made of cotton, and when the manufacturers saw that women were using the cotton fabric to make dresses, underwear, towels, curtains, and quilts, mostly from 50 pound sacks, they  began printing some of the cotton sack fabrics with colorful patterns.
A.M. Pyron, and Virginia Pyron, the grandfather and grandmother of all of us, owned a ranch of 360 acres when granfather died in 1932.  In the northwest corner of the 360 acres there was a 15 acre Homestead Tract, where houses of the grandparents and four of their married children lived.  Because Ruth and Virginia lived only about 125 yards from our house, in the mid thirtries we were together quite a bit.  And since Virginia was closest to me in age, we played together in the thirties.