A life, recovered
Ramon (surname not yet established)
A name kept with the work
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The returning harvest worker
Ramon was a migrant farmworker who returned for harvest seasons at the Perry Ranch. He appears in the peanut-harvest photograph alongside Jim, Raymond and Otis Perry and other people at work.
His surname has not been established. Ramon is the name the family preserved, and it remains attached to his remembered place in the harvest.
Sources: Distance Is an Operating Expense · Recovered family photograph register
Clayton’s great-grandfather Raymond Perry; Raymond’s father Jim; Raymond’s brother Otis; and Ramon, a migrant farmworker welcomed back for harvest seasons. The circa range is based on Jim Perry’s death in 1943 and visual evidence.
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The people who made the crop possible
The photograph contains machinery, sacks, loose peanuts and the people whose labor brought them together. Ramon’s inclusion keeps the account from becoming only a story about the family that owned the land.
No kinship with the Perrys is established. He belongs in this history through his own labor and the family’s memory of his recurring presence.
Sources: Distance Is an Operating Expense · Recovered family photograph register
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Sources & further reading
These sources support the biography and its continuing research.
- Distance Is an Operating Expense ↗
Published family recollections of Perry Ranch work, school travel and the harvest photograph; recollections are oral history.
- Recovered family photograph register ↗
Photograph identifications and dates retain their stated family-memory or documentary status.
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