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The Tyler kids about twenty years later... Marjorie (Tyler) Craven, Harriet (Tyler) Miller, their father, F. Harold Tyler, their mother, Florence (Carpenter) Tyler, Ruby (Carriker) Tyler, and her husband, Albert Tyler.
Those little guys in the front? That's me, staring into space, and my cousin Mike Tyler, shrugging off his mom's hands.
Steve Miller
Someplace near the crossroads of America
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