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ell, finally got pictures of my parents. Have put into this blog what I know and what others have told me about the tough marriage my parents had.
Well my brother said he was enjoying my blog and wished that we knew more about our parents and their younger days. I will try to get more info from my family and add what I know about mom and dad here. Will send out some letters and and see what I can find out. I know they married young. Mom fifteen and dad was twenty. Anyway the marriage got a rocky start, mom was young , still a teenager wanting to have fun. Guess you could even say she was rebellious some and really not ready to settle down to a house and kids. However they married and ended up having eleven children in all. My sister Frankie said we were all make-up babies meaning they would fuss and fight and then make up. I would like to think it wasn't so but who knows.?
They weren't without struggles, three of the earlier babies died which must have been so hard on them both plus their marriage. I never wanted to judge them because life was hard back in those days and dad had hard time finding work. He would travel to Ft. Myers every winter to work with some guy named J. Smith in the bee hives. It left mom home to deal with a big family. I guess Frankie really was a big help to mom and dad in those early days.
It seems hard to believe but dad actually came from a pretty well to do family. Dad actually was given a good education but failed to use it. His father owned the home that I grew up in . It was a big two story home with a gable in front and I bet once upon a time it probably was sooo beautiful! Dad's father left to move to Fl. Wayne Ind. where he had another home and let my dad move his growing family into that home. He only ask that my dad pay him a little something each month. the old home stood on Wabash Ave. in Vincennes, Ind. Sometime after I married the old house was torn down.
Hard times hit and my dad dropped off sending money to his father. I remember him telling me this story and his eyes watered up. felt he had disappointed his father. I think he looked up to his dad. I know my dad was strict just like I hear his father was. We were kind of scared of dad but hard times kind of make a person hard! Dad had a sister who was kept from dating cause his dad never approved of anyone. So it was she ended up being a old maid. Sad!
Dad's brother Elmer became successful and moved from the area, and went to live in Ft.Myers too. I am sure dad felt bad because he never became as successful as his brother. Dad rushed into marriage at a early age and had children so fast , he found himself just getting by! I do remember mom was always gone ,always working, she was never home much. She later started hanging out with friends and really didn't want to come home. I always wanted her to be home but that wasn't where her heart was. I know dad never did try to make the home nice for her. She so wanted a nice home to come home to. Not being educated it must have been hard, mom held down odd jobs like being a waitress and a cook in resturants. Money was always a big issue.
My grandmother was the sweetest lady ever. We called her Ma! thats all. just ma! A sweet lady who went about her daily life cooking, cleaning and keeping up a home. We went their on Sunday afternoon for dinner alot. That lady was a worker, she could cook and you would wake up in her feather bed smelling homemade biscuits baking in the old coal stove. Ma loved her home ! So different from my mother. a sweet and gentle lady ! It happens like that sometimes! A daughter being so different from the mother or vice vera. I don't hold it against my mother , I didn't walk in her shoes so I don't know what burdens she had to carry. will continue this story later.......
Dad held down some jobs but later decided to use our back yard as a junk yard. He found that he could sell car parts and make what he thought was big money. So thats what he did, the back yard got pretty full. This didn't go over to well with my mom and so another issue fussed over. I'm sure had his father seen the way that once nice place looked, he would have been greatly disappointment.
Don't know much about my grandmother on my dad's side, she had died by time I came along. I want to find out about her. I often wonder what kind of lady she was. My grandfather moved to Fort Wayne Ind., I think I remember it was he who came to our home and brought with him some fruit. When dad's father died his brother Elmer got his home in Ft. Myers. He moved there with his family.
As kids we spent much of our time playing in that old back yard full of junk cars, pretending we were driving them and even Bump and I fixed up a old trailer back there and we were going to live in it permanently. We worked hard and thought it looked better than the house. Think one night we got scared and that ended that. My brother and I actually had alot of fun out there!
Don't remember much about dad's sister. Just that she had serious problems because of the strictness of their dad. He was very strict I hear and my dad was also! His father was well known in Vincennes, a photographer , he had his own shop and think he had a lumber place also.
Mom lost a baby girl at five yrs. old. Her name was Ruthie. I think how awful that must have been. later she went on to lose two more children Frank at birth and Bobby at five months. Doctors back then didn't have the tools or knowledge that they do today.
Times were hard.................. to continue.
ell, finally got pictures of my parents. Have put into this blog what I know and what others have told me about the tough marriage my parents had.Well my brother said he was enjoying my blog and wished that we knew more about our parents and their younger days. I will try to get more info from my family and add what I know about mom and dad here. Will send out some letters and and see what I can find out. I know they married young. Mom fifteen and dad was twenty. Anyway the marriage got a rocky start, mom was young , still a teenager wanting to have fun. Guess you could even say she was rebellious some and really not ready to settle down to a house and kids. However they married and ended up having eleven children in all. My sister Frankie said we were all make-up babies meaning they would fuss and fight and then make up. I would like to think it wasn't so but who knows.?
They weren't without struggles, three of the earlier babies died which must have been so hard on them both plus their marriage. I never wanted to judge them because life was hard back in those days and dad had hard time finding work. He would travel to Ft. Myers every winter to work with some guy named J. Smith in the bee hives. It left mom home to deal with a big family. I guess Frankie really was a big help to mom and dad in those early days.
It seems hard to believe but dad actually came from a pretty well to do family. Dad actually was given a good education but failed to use it. His father owned the home that I grew up in . It was a big two story home with a gable in front and I bet once upon a time it probably was sooo beautiful! Dad's father left to move to Fl. Wayne Ind. where he had another home and let my dad move his growing family into that home. He only ask that my dad pay him a little something each month. the old home stood on Wabash Ave. in Vincennes, Ind. Sometime after I married the old house was torn down.
Hard times hit and my dad dropped off sending money to his father. I remember him telling me this story and his eyes watered up. felt he had disappointed his father. I think he looked up to his dad. I know my dad was strict just like I hear his father was. We were kind of scared of dad but hard times kind of make a person hard! Dad had a sister who was kept from dating cause his dad never approved of anyone. So it was she ended up being a old maid. Sad!
Dad's brother Elmer became successful and moved from the area, and went to live in Ft.Myers too. I am sure dad felt bad because he never became as successful as his brother. Dad rushed into marriage at a early age and had children so fast , he found himself just getting by! I do remember mom was always gone ,always working, she was never home much. She later started hanging out with friends and really didn't want to come home. I always wanted her to be home but that wasn't where her heart was. I know dad never did try to make the home nice for her. She so wanted a nice home to come home to. Not being educated it must have been hard, mom held down odd jobs like being a waitress and a cook in resturants. Money was always a big issue.
My grandmother was the sweetest lady ever. We called her Ma! thats all. just ma! A sweet lady who went about her daily life cooking, cleaning and keeping up a home. We went their on Sunday afternoon for dinner alot. That lady was a worker, she could cook and you would wake up in her feather bed smelling homemade biscuits baking in the old coal stove. Ma loved her home ! So different from my mother. a sweet and gentle lady ! It happens like that sometimes! A daughter being so different from the mother or vice vera. I don't hold it against my mother , I didn't walk in her shoes so I don't know what burdens she had to carry. will continue this story later.......
Dad held down some jobs but later decided to use our back yard as a junk yard. He found that he could sell car parts and make what he thought was big money. So thats what he did, the back yard got pretty full. This didn't go over to well with my mom and so another issue fussed over. I'm sure had his father seen the way that once nice place looked, he would have been greatly disappointment.
Don't know much about my grandmother on my dad's side, she had died by time I came along. I want to find out about her. I often wonder what kind of lady she was. My grandfather moved to Fort Wayne Ind., I think I remember it was he who came to our home and brought with him some fruit. When dad's father died his brother Elmer got his home in Ft. Myers. He moved there with his family.
As kids we spent much of our time playing in that old back yard full of junk cars, pretending we were driving them and even Bump and I fixed up a old trailer back there and we were going to live in it permanently. We worked hard and thought it looked better than the house. Think one night we got scared and that ended that. My brother and I actually had alot of fun out there!
Don't remember much about dad's sister. Just that she had serious problems because of the strictness of their dad. He was very strict I hear and my dad was also! His father was well known in Vincennes, a photographer , he had his own shop and think he had a lumber place also.
Mom lost a baby girl at five yrs. old. Her name was Ruthie. I think how awful that must have been. later she went on to lose two more children Frank at birth and Bobby at five months. Doctors back then didn't have the tools or knowledge that they do today.
Times were hard.................. to continue.
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