Typical landscape in Leon County, where Samantha Ann Gibbs was born to a pair of Irish immigrant sharecroppers.

 

The humble chapel in Leon County used as a model for the one in the novel where Samantha

worshipped, attended funerals and married her husband.

 

Trucks lined up on the town square in Flynn, Texas, waiting to weigh and sell their watermelon crop in the 1940s.

 

Patricia Ann Sandel-Cochran, circa 1980, sister of the book's author, mother of

its ghost-writer, whose spirit inspired the essence of the story's main character.