Pictured here are the five boys or shall i say two men and three boys. My brother Jack is the oldest. He was twenty years old when i was born. He is on the left and my bro. Benny on the right. Benny was eighteen when i was born. Johnny is on the left and Leo on the right. I'm the squirt in the middle. My brother Jack married shortly after dad died and moved to Little Rock, Arkansas.

It was during the year of 1927 when the big flood hit the south. I suppose the only good thing about the flood was that it must have washed me in. When we lived on the Peterson farm my sister Lillian always lived close to us. She was married to Bud Williams and they also farmed. I remember going to their house which was several miles away and was fascinated with yoked oxen pulling logs out of the woods by their house. In those days that was the only way to get the timber out i suppose. I remember one time when Bud got on to me about something and they were not looking i left and walked the 7 or 8 miles through the woods back home. That did not go over too good but i managed not to get whipped. I suppose i had reached the age when i became more daring, or it may have been that i was eating too many potatoes and blackeyed peas. I also got into trouble with my sister Audrey because i questioned why she was shaped different at the chest level. Another incident was my getting real good with my sling shot(we didn't call them sling shots then). Mom and i were on the back porch and i had a marble in my sling shot. A mocking bird lit in the fig tree and i started to shoot it. My mom said i had better not shoot that bird. I remember saying that i couldn't hit that bird but he didn't fly any more but i sure took off.