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[0000.05 - 0008.05] But over a period of time, you get promotions and it can be more money in different places to work with.
[0008.05 - 0011.05] But still, in that type of business, they didn't make that lot of money.
[0011.05 - 0013.05] But you know, he's one of the people.
[0013.05 - 0014.05] He just worked his way up.
[0014.05 - 0025.05] Yeah. So, from I guess his probably 40s or so when he got his first real job.
[0025.05 - 0026.05] Managing the factory.
[0026.05 - 0027.05] Managing the factory.
[0027.05 - 0028.05] Yeah.
[0028.05 - 0034.55] And then he worked different factories down south all over.
[0034.55 - 0038.55] St. Louis, St. Louis area, Little Rock.
[0038.55 - 0039.55] Arkansas.
[0039.55 - 0040.55] Arkansas.
[0040.55 - 0050.55] Because I saw an article that said that Hercules, that they closed one of the Hercules factories in Wellston because they opened one in Arkansas.
[0050.55 - 0052.55] And I thought, well, I know grandpa went to Arkansas.
[0052.55 - 0056.55] So I was wondering if that was the same time that he did that.
[0056.55 - 0057.55] And I don't think so.
[0057.55 - 0058.55] And if he got that job.
[0058.55 - 0062.55] But you know, like some places he would go to work and he'd run two factories.
[0062.55 - 0063.55] Yeah.
[0063.55 - 0064.55] And it would be one.
[0064.55 - 0066.55] And then the last place was in Alabama.
[0066.55 - 0069.55] He'd run two factories there.
[0069.55 - 0077.55] And then when he was in Alabama, he was probably 57, 58, something like that.
[0077.55 - 0081.55] Back in Ohio where he started his oppressor, they had six factories.
[0081.55 - 0084.55] They harden to run all six factories.
[0084.55 - 0085.55] Wow.
[0085.55 - 0088.55] So over his lifetime, he was a suppressor.
[0088.55 - 0092.55] Coming back, he's over, what, 200, 1200 people.
[0092.55 - 0093.55] Wow.
[0093.55 - 0094.55] That's amazing.
[0094.55 - 0095.55] He really worked his way up.
[0095.55 - 0096.55] Yeah.
[0096.55 - 0097.55] He did.
[0097.55 - 0098.55] That was amazing.
[0098.55 - 0102.55] In the school of two years, he went to Reiger in college.
[0102.55 - 0110.55] And my cousin, Lois, his daughter got her doctor's degree there, nursing.
[0110.55 - 0114.55] And they were able to get his grades and his records for me.
[0114.55 - 0115.55] Oh my gosh.
[0115.55 - 0120.55] And basically, it looked like he went one year for...
[0120.55 - 0121.55] One semester.
[0121.55 - 0122.55] One semester.
[0122.55 - 0123.55] For football.
[0123.55 - 0124.55] That worked.
[0124.55 - 0126.55] They came back, they sure went one semester.
[0126.55 - 0127.55] Yeah.
[0127.55 - 0128.55] That was the end of it.
[0128.55 - 0130.55] So he basically would go in the fall and play football.
[0130.55 - 0131.55] I see.
[0131.55 - 0132.55] And take classes and then...
[0132.55 - 0133.55] Just to play football.
[0133.55 - 0134.55] Apparently pass classes or not pass them.
[0134.55 - 0135.55] Yeah.
[0135.55 - 0139.55] And then he would go work and then he'd come back the next fall and go play football.
[0139.55 - 0140.55] He did a couple years.
[0140.55 - 0141.55] Yeah.
[0141.55 - 0143.55] How many siblings did he have?
[0143.55 - 0144.55] How many what?
[0144.55 - 0145.55] Siblings.
[0145.55 - 0146.55] How big was his family?
[0146.55 - 0147.55] How many brothers and sisters?
[0147.55 - 0150.55] How many aunts and uncles did you have from his side?
[0150.55 - 0153.55] He had three sisters.
[0153.55 - 0159.98] He had a brother.
[0159.98 - 0161.98] Let's see what he was...
[0161.98 - 0164.98] And then he had two brothers that died.
[0164.98 - 0165.98] One...
[0165.98 - 0166.98] When they were young?
[0166.98 - 0167.98] Young.
[0167.98 - 0169.98] I think one was awful.
[0169.98 - 0171.98] Somehow he got on far his body.
[0171.98 - 0172.98] Oh.
[0172.98 - 0173.98] That is awful.
[0173.98 - 0174.98] Like a freak accident.
[0174.98 - 0175.98] Yeah.
[0175.98 - 0176.98] I can't remember how the other died.
[0176.98 - 0177.98] It's like your grandpa's...
[0177.98 - 0180.98] Some of his siblings died really tragically.
[0180.98 - 0181.98] That was it.
[0181.98 - 0182.98] Four, seven.
[0182.98 - 0183.98] Seven whole year.
[0183.98 - 0185.98] So their names were...
[0185.98 - 0186.98] Do you remember their names?
[0186.98 - 0187.98] Beezer.
[0187.98 - 0188.98] Yeah.
[0188.98 - 0190.98] I don't know the young kids.
[0190.98 - 0191.98] Who died.
[0191.98 - 0192.98] Yeah.
[0192.98 - 0195.98] The rest was Tom, Mommy, Margaret and Sue.
[0195.98 - 0196.98] Yeah.
[0196.98 - 0197.98] Yeah.
[0197.98 - 0200.98] Did you grow up having lots of cousins?
[0200.98 - 0201.98] Yeah.
[0201.98 - 0202.98] Yeah.
[0202.98 - 0203.98] Do you still talk to any of your cousins?
[0203.98 - 0204.98] Are they around?
[0204.98 - 0205.98] Oh, yeah.
[0205.98 - 0206.98] I've always talked with them.
[0206.98 - 0207.98] Yeah.
[0207.98 - 0208.98] I go back to business.
[0208.98 - 0209.98] You still...
[0209.98 - 0210.98] But my cousins...
[0210.98 - 0211.98] I guess about...
[0211.98 - 0213.98] Maybe three years ago, one died.
[0213.98 - 0218.98] And then while the one that was the oldest died maybe four or five years before that.
[0218.98 - 0221.98] Then my last cousin was my age.
[0221.98 - 0225.98] Just died like the last year, year and a half.
[0225.98 - 0226.98] And then...
[0226.98 - 0227.98] But I had...
[0227.98 - 0233.39] My cousins, you know, one had two couple brothers.
[0233.39 - 0234.39] Mm-hmm.
[0234.39 - 0235.39] And they're still alive.
[0235.39 - 0236.39] Okay.
[0236.39 - 0237.39] And I don't...
[0237.39 - 0238.39] Did you meet...
[0238.39 - 0239.39] Oh, yeah.
[0239.39 - 0240.39] You...
[0240.39 - 0242.39] The one that had that farm where...
[0242.39 - 0243.39] Yeah.
[0243.39 - 0244.39] Yeah.
[0244.39 - 0246.39] Was that your second cousin or was that your...
[0246.39 - 0248.39] That's my first cousin.
[0248.39 - 0249.39] First cousin, yeah.
[0249.39 - 0250.39] And his name was Bob and...
[0250.39 - 0251.39] Yeah.
[0251.39 - 0258.39] And what was interesting there is way back, I don't know, 1800 or somewhere.
[0258.39 - 0260.39] Hughes was her names.
[0260.39 - 0261.39] Mm.
[0261.39 - 0263.39] Had lots of land in Jackson.
[0263.39 - 0264.39] Mm-hmm.
[0264.39 - 0265.39] And I don't know how many acres.
[0265.39 - 0268.39] 100,000 acres or 100,000, I don't know what it was.
[0268.39 - 0270.39] But he gave each of his kids.
[0270.39 - 0271.39] Mm-hmm.
[0271.39 - 0272.39] So my grandpa...
[0272.39 - 0273.39] Wow.
[0273.39 - 0274.39] He was...
[0274.39 - 0275.39] Got those acres, but he...
[0275.39 - 0276.39] That was Grand-icide.
[0276.39 - 0277.39] Yeah, we got one of them.
[0277.39 - 0278.39] That's right.
[0278.39 - 0279.39] Didn't want to...
[0279.39 - 0280.39] I guess he didn't like it.
[0280.39 - 0281.39] So he worked for the railroad.
[0281.39 - 0282.39] Mm-hmm.
[0282.39 - 0285.39] But anyway...
[0285.39 - 0289.39] So my cousin, Bud, who was...
[0289.39 - 0292.39] Disgrated to his grandfather.
[0292.39 - 0294.39] So cousin Bud was on Grandma's side?
[0294.39 - 0295.39] Grandma Hughes, yeah.
[0295.39 - 0296.39] Grandma Marianne, yeah.
[0296.39 - 0297.39] So he owned his own.
[0297.39 - 0300.39] He worked for the post office, the truck.
[0300.39 - 0304.39] So I did go from city to city and dropped off mail and somebody delivered to the house.
[0304.39 - 0305.39] Mm-hmm.
[0305.39 - 0306.39] And he...
[0306.39 - 0308.39] On his own, but...
[0308.39 - 0310.39] I don't know how many acres.
[0310.39 - 0311.39] You know how many acres it was?
[0311.39 - 0312.39] Yeah, it was a lot, yeah.
[0312.39 - 0313.39] Yeah, a lot of acres of land.
[0313.39 - 0314.39] Wow.
[0314.39 - 0318.39] You know, he had like all sorts of trees.
[0318.39 - 0320.39] I mean, was it a hickory tree?
[0320.39 - 0321.39] I don't know.
[0321.39 - 0322.39] Yeah.
[0322.39 - 0323.39] He said he cut it down.
[0323.39 - 0324.39] He got $3,000 for the tree.
[0324.39 - 0325.39] Wow.
[0325.39 - 0326.39] Of wood.
[0326.39 - 0331.39] And he had, I don't know, five, 10,000 acres, whatever.
[0331.39 - 0336.39] He cut for, I guess, the city...
[0336.39 - 0340.39] Or the county paid him to cut the weeds and everything in that area.
[0340.39 - 0341.39] Even though it was his land.
[0341.39 - 0342.39] I don't know why he got that.
[0342.39 - 0343.39] Oh, interesting.
[0343.39 - 0347.39] And he, when we visited his house the first time,
[0347.39 - 0350.39] his house was probably, you know,
[0350.39 - 0352.39] maybe not quite as big as this house.
[0352.39 - 0353.39] But he had a garage.
[0353.39 - 0355.39] It was twice that size.
[0355.39 - 0356.39] Yeah.
[0356.39 - 0359.39] He had all sorts of, you know, tractors and equipment in the garage.
[0359.39 - 0361.39] And he had that thing we rode all night.
[0361.39 - 0364.39] Yeah, it was kind of like Randy's four-wheel, yeah.
[0364.39 - 0367.39] I don't think it seemed street legal, but it's four-wheel drive
[0367.39 - 0370.39] and it was kind of a, it was almost like a mini truck, kind of.
[0370.39 - 0374.96] And then in his yard there, that house,
[0374.96 - 0378.96] I think he had like, I can't remember, six or eight different food trees.
[0378.96 - 0380.96] I don't know if they produced, they produced some fruit.
[0380.96 - 0382.96] Yeah.
[0382.96 - 0386.96] But I noticed, well, last time I was back was about, I don't know,
[0386.96 - 0388.96] 10 years ago.
[0388.96 - 0395.37] He, he didn't, I don't know if it was land,
[0395.37 - 0399.37] but he went and bought a house in lane, in Jackson, in the city.
[0399.37 - 0401.37] Lived there because like it was too much work for him.
[0401.37 - 0403.37] Just take care of all the big land.
[0403.37 - 0405.37] Because he's gotten older, yeah.
[0405.37 - 0407.37] Someone has that land finally.
[0407.37 - 0408.37] Yeah.
[0408.37 - 0411.37] So when, what year did we go back and see him?
[0411.37 - 0415.37] That would have been, was that when you, that was after your,
[0415.37 - 0417.37] your mom died, right?
[0417.37 - 0419.37] Is that when we went?
[0419.37 - 0422.37] 2007?
[0422.37 - 0423.37] 2008?
[0423.37 - 0425.37] I don't know. I have no idea right now.
[0425.37 - 0429.37] Because I'm trying to think, because we went to Alabama
[0429.37 - 0432.37] and then we went to Wellston, right?
[0432.37 - 0434.37] So that must have been the trip we did that,
[0434.37 - 0435.37] because it was just you and me.
[0435.37 - 0436.37] Yeah.
[0436.37 - 0441.37] And we went to Alabama to, to Grandma's,
[0441.37 - 0444.37] Ash's on Grandpa's grave.
[0444.37 - 0450.37] And then we went to Wellston and visited.
[0450.37 - 0451.37] And then we just flew back.
[0451.37 - 0453.37] Was that all we did that trip?
[0453.37 - 0454.37] That must have been, yeah.
[0454.37 - 0455.37] Yeah.
[0455.37 - 0457.37] Well, then we met, but we,
[0457.37 - 0458.37] Yeah.
[0458.37 - 0460.37] And then also we went, in Wellston we met a,
[0460.37 - 0461.37] a bunch of people.
[0461.37 - 0463.37] That was, that was like a house party.
[0463.37 - 0465.37] There was a bunch of, yeah, yeah.
[0465.37 - 0467.37] That's all my kids have been in high school with.
[0467.37 - 0468.37] Yeah.
[0468.37 - 0469.37] Yeah.
[0469.37 - 0470.37] Yeah.
[0470.37 - 0471.37] Yeah.
[0471.37 - 0473.37] Every time I went back there was like six or eight
[0473.37 - 0474.37] we'd get the other,
[0474.37 - 0476.37] that was probably one or two.
[0476.37 - 0478.74] Yeah.
[0478.74 - 0479.74] Wow.
[0479.74 - 0481.74] That's really cool.
[0481.74 - 0483.74] Did Grandma have a big family?
[0483.74 - 0485.74] Did she come from a big family too?
[0485.74 - 0486.74] My mom.