Costner Cousins--first cousins J. T. Costner, Clay Costner, Everett Parker, Hershel Parker, J. L. Balentine--Full Face; with a picture of John Mathis and his father Arthur Mathis added and two of Corbette (Joe) Edwards, Ida Costner's son

This is J. T. Costner, Ona and John's son.

This is Elbert's son Clay.

Clay, later on.


Everett Parker, son of Martha Costner

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Hershel Parker--a lot older, but full face; don't have a high school graduation photo because I left to start working after the 11th grade. But see the photograph of our uncle, below, for resemblances.

This is R. G. (Pete) Costner, first cousin to J. L., Clay, and Hershel--but he is also our second cousin. J. T. Costner is Pete's brother but also--you figure it out. Ona and John were first cousins.




On New Year's Day 2012:
Thanks to his daughter Christi, here is John Mathis, a grandson of Ada Costner Mathis, sister of Gene Costner. John is second cousin to Clay Costner, J. L. Balentine, and Hershel Parker. Christi noticed the resemblance to Clay. I think the look of the Costner brothers and sisters (whether it was the Costner look or the Stewart look) carries very far down the generations.

J. L. Balentine

J.L. and Hershel:

Madine Simmons sent me a full-face picture of her brother, J. L. Balentine to replace the profile shot I posted at first.

Here is our uncle, Andrew Costner:

Arthur Mathis, son of Ada Costjer, was first cousin to Andrew Costner, first cousin once removed from Hershel Parker, J. L. Balentine, and Clay Costner. Arthur Mathis was the father of John Mathis. This picture courtesy of his granddaughter Christi.

Young Corbette (Joe) Edwards, first cousin once removed to J. L., J. T., Clay, Hershel, Everett, and R.G.



Young Corbette (Joe) Edwards again.

Corbette in later life. All baseball player Joe Edwards' photos courtesy of Bonnie McMullan.

photo booth posing

California girls

All the Costner-Bell children except Helen

Euna on left, then in the back Andrew, Cora Lee,Elbert, Ethel, then on the right Martha, Ona in front, Mary partly behind Ona, then Euna on left. Cora Lee (Lee) is in front of Andrew and Elbert. On the right of Elbert, between him and Martha, is Ethel, the one who looks so much like her Aunt Mittie Costner.

Gene Costner, Alice Bell Costner, 9 surviving children

Gene, Alice,Lee,Mary, Helen, Ona, Martha (partly cut off by Ona), Ethel, Euna, Andrew, Elbert.

AMERICAN LITERARY NATURALISM: "A Clash of Titans"

It's a terrible curse to be 20 or 30 years ahead of your time. My 1984 FLAWED TEXTS AND VERBAL ICONS was trashed by both the New Bibliographers and the New Critics and I thought for sure it was dead until 2007, when I pulled some books down from David Greetham's bookshelves and then looked on Amazon and Google Books for what had been said about it after the reviews died down. I was astounded to see that it has been used by people in many fields although it is still often put down by people in American literature, mainly geezers who had committed themselves to praise of a bungled text, or their students. Today I noticed several pages in Keith Newlin's new $150 OXFORD HANDBOOK OF AMERICAN LITERARY NATURALISM where my arguments about one book, THE RED BADGE OF COURAGE, are accurately described and where he says that to read Fredson Bowers's and my exchanges "is to witness a class of titans." (See more in Amazon by looking inside the HANDBOOK.)

Newlin knows I lost to the vested New Critical interests on RBofC, although I was right about readers being deprived of the true experience of reading what Crane wrote, and he writes sadly about that loss to a truncated and nonsensical text. He concludes that Bowers (and his followers, he might have said) were so powerful that Bowers's kind of eclectic editing prevailed as long as he lived, although "with his passing in 1991, the eclectic approach has fallen from favor."

Is this a family trait?--being right long before our time? It's a good thing most of us live a long time. If I had died in 1990 I would have thought that FLAWED TEXTS AND VERBAL ICONS was dead and forgotten.

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Checkmate!

Kevin's father, Bill Costner, is my second cousin, Kevin my second cousin once removed.

You know what this means: Bill and I are twice the Costner Kevin is.