At the age of about 21 years, Ocie Myrtle Warren Wilson (born Dec. 1, 1902), was married to her husband Harry Blucher Wilson (born May 19, 1886). The two of them traveled by train to their honeymoon at Niagara Falls. Harry Blucher had, as the story was told to me, fallen in love with Myrtle on the day she was born. He was only sixteen years old at the time, and he later became her lifelong love.
Blucher's mother (Florence Celeste Kincy Wilson), had been a talented horsewoman and had already taught her younger son how to handle and train horses when he was a little boy of ten. But by the time he was 11 years old, both his father and his mother had died, and Blucher had gone to live with his brother Rupert, who was already grown, and apparently a hard taskmaster. At age 13, Blucher left his brother's farm. Growing up pretty much on his own, he went to work in lumber camps as a cook and wrangler. . . . His horsemanship paid off. As a boy of only sixteen, he had been working for a year or two as a driver for the country doctor who had delivered baby Myrtle--the first child and daughter of Roland Warren and Leona Petty Warren. When he saw the newborn, he told her parents that she was the prettiest baby he had ever seen, and asked them if they would save her for him. But their courtship was to become a lot more complicated than that . . . . I'm their oldest grandchild, born in Union City, Tennessee, in 1952. Seventy years later, in 2022, I am in the process of writing more about their adventures together, most of it remembered and recorded from stories my mother Lola, their oldest daughter, passed down to me, as well as some from my grandmother and other family members.
Blucher's mother (Florence Celeste Kincy Wilson), had been a talented horsewoman and had already taught her younger son how to handle and train horses when he was a little boy of ten. But by the time he was 11 years old, both his father and his mother had died, and Blucher had gone to live with his brother Rupert, who was already grown, and apparently a hard taskmaster. At age 13, Blucher left his brother's farm. Growing up pretty much on his own, he went to work in lumber camps as a cook and wrangler. . . . His horsemanship paid off. As a boy of only sixteen, he had been working for a year or two as a driver for the country doctor who had delivered baby Myrtle--the first child and daughter of Roland Warren and Leona Petty Warren. When he saw the newborn, he told her parents that she was the prettiest baby he had ever seen, and asked them if they would save her for him. But their courtship was to become a lot more complicated than that . . . . I'm their oldest grandchild, born in Union City, Tennessee, in 1952. Seventy years later, in 2022, I am in the process of writing more about their adventures together, most of it remembered and recorded from stories my mother Lola, their oldest daughter, passed down to me, as well as some from my grandmother and other family members.
