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Re: For Chuck

I'll try to clear that up for you, but not right now. I admit it was pretty rambling, don't know what I was on that day. Joan wants me to go shopping right now boy oh boy been waiting for that all day.

HE

Re: For Chuck

Knock, Knock! Still shopping?

Re: For Chuck

yea and doctor visits, not sick just keeping well.
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Re: For Chuck

Well cuz here goes.
1)In addition to the sons of Calvin and Molly already mentioned there was one named Buford(I never knew him) who left home very early age and went to California. Don't think he ever came back home. A lot of people always kind of smiled when his name was mentioned, not reading anything into that.
2) My grandpa Jones was Charles Payton a brother to uncle Paulie (Your grandpa John Paul). I sent you a picture a long time back showing the parents and most of the siblings, not sure uncle Paulie was in that photo.
3)The Huddelstons did spend some of their late lives in a home on Lake Gaston on the GA/SC line. I know that because my mother visited them a number of times while they were there.

Now I THINK that should clear up what I thought I was saying in my previous post. OBTW what was the name of Calvin and Molly's other son who lived at home with them and never married or moved away?

Re: For Chuck

His name was JUSTIN....Just in case my parents need me at home....Just in case I ever have a wife and have to keep her up..and just in case..well, you get it by now!

Don't know if that was any of your kin..but, it might have been some of mine.

Re: For Chuck

That was not the reason this fellow stayed home.

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Re: For Chuck

Thanks for your input Mr. Stephens.

Horace, from an earlier post on the 14th in this thread, "Luke was also a brother to Dock." He was named Luther and called Luke. He had some "quirks". As far as I know he always lived in the same house with his parents.

Buford, also known as Van, was my uncle. He was the son of Uncle Paulie and aunt Sally, my grandparents. He made a few trips back to Sylacauga over the years. I visited him in California in the early sixties while TDY to get some training prior to going to Viet Nam. He was a WWII vet and a CPA in California. I've met and visited with his ex-wife and their children while on that same trip a long time ago. I've lost touch but would like to re-connect. The kids were just a couple of years younger than me. I don't know how to find them. Maybe I'll research that and hope for the best.

I am in occasional email contact with Alfred Huddelston, the oldest son. He too retired from the USAF a few years before I did. He lives in Anniston.

Take care, cuz.

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Wow, you cleared up a lot. I thought Luther was the name I was looking for. And I don't know why but I thought Buford was a son of uncle Calvin and aunt Molly. I am glad to hear that the "Hollywood" accounts that I heard were apparently fiction. Funny how folks get things screwed up.
I know Alfred's brother Paul died as a result of a parachute mishap. They had several sisters(I remember sweetthang), do you know if any are still living. Alfred was a teenager when I was quite young. I got to know both Alfred and Paul when they lived in Sunnybrook at the same time we did. He must be pushing 90 by now.

Thanks for that info. OBTW did uncle Calvin ever let you drive that beautiful Model T?

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Concerning the sisters, Faye is the oldest, June is next, Joan next, and the baby, Janice. I think Janice is about 3 years or so younger than me. I do know that June has died and I don't know about the other girls.
I did drive the car, but only from the house, up the dirt road hill to the mailbox and back a couple of times. Probably a total of 200 yards or so. I don't remember ANYONE else ever driving but I know Dock was his mechanic sometimes. I don't remember him having a tractor but I did plow with a mule some too. My dad had a tractor and a mule about that time. I was 12 or 13 years old. ~ 60 years ago!

Take care, Cuz

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Another OBTW … did you ever meet Uncle Henry? He was the youngest of the Jones boys and I think maybe in the family. I can only remember meeting him one time. He seemed to be a lot younger than my grandfather. A real lively fun lover as I remember. He joked and laughed a lot. I am sorry that I did not have any other occasions to spend time with him. There is or used to be a dirt road, kind of a short cut to Clanton from hiway 22 a few miles above the Mitchell dam road. It came out right near where I65 crosses what used to be called Higgins Ferry Rd. It now has a county road number and is the main road to Lake Mitchell. Anyway Uncle Henry lived on that road between the Corinth area and the Concord/Walnut Creek area.
I tried plowing with a mule a few times. They were very instrumental in shaping my future almost as much as working two years in the cotton mill. Ramble Ramble
Hope that isn't too confusing.

HE

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I do recall the name, Uncle Henry. I don't think we ever met. If we did, I was too young to remember. I knew Uncle Calvin and Uncle Alpheus, any of the others I may have met, but didn't get to know them. I really should get back into our roots thing. When we ever get past our recovery mode, now that I've retired, maybe I can do that.
You should come this way and we'll head for Chilton Co. for a few days.

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You must have met uncle Arthur. He was Gene's father. Gene lived in the original Jones home 100 yards or so from uncle Calvin. I didn't realize his house had once been the house that I remembered when our great grandmother died. She was 94 and her name I believe was Lucinda. I was in the 4th grade when she passed away. Our family went down there. Gene had radically change the appearance over the years. He had a daughter named Patsy who also lived with them and eventually built her own house. Uncle Arthur was also the father of the young girl Ruth who died from polio. If I am not mistaken uncle Alpheus was the father of Dora Forbus. Boy I would love to spend some time there just roaming around. Don't know how I can make that happen.

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Re: For Chuck

Well cuz,

You wrote, "Boy I would love to spend some time there just roaming around. Don't know how I can make that happen."

I have a solution. Take a look at your GPS destinations from 24 Dec, 2017 and Thanksgiving Nov, 2018. Just adjust your setting to a destination 100 miles or so to the west and stop in Sylacauga. Let me know the date a few days in advance and I'll meet you in Sylacauga and we'll "make that happen". We will never get to do that any younger than we are today!

See you soon,
Cuz