Pleasant Shade Belles
Beth Sloan Wilburn provided this picture and information.
Pictured are some of the pretty young ladies of Pleasant Shade in about 1925.
L-r: Ramsey Porter (grandmother of Beth Sloan Wilburn), Opal Russell, Ruby Huddleston and unknown..
Ramsey was the daughter of Hudson Ellis and Clarence Gregory Porter pictured on this website.
The house in the background was owned by the local physician, Dr. George W. Herod (1846 - 1929).
It was located on the hill just north of the present Pleasant Shade Elementary School.
The little building behind Ramsey was the slave kitchen.
Note by Tom Dickerson: This was a fancy house for Pleasant Shade. It may have been built on the home
site of Dr. Peter Herod also a Pleasant Shade physician in the 1850s, 60s, and 70s. The slave kitchen
could be a remnant of Peter Herod's house. Peter Herod was the grandfather of George W. Herod.