We were visiting, and my Uncle Harry is sitting on the front porch at his mother's home on Hazel St. in DeValls Bluff, Prairie, AR, holding my favorite stuffed animal, Zippy. This was in the 1950s, as I was born in 1952 and probably had that monkey about 1956-58 time period.
Harry was a wonderful uncle to me and a good father. In his younger days, he was a scrapper, meaning he fought. He and his wife, Goldie Hurley Parker were married in their car in a "drive-by" wedding by the justice of the peace who worked for the railroad. So they just drove up to where the JP was working, and he married them in the car on 12 Feb 1930.
The Eisenhower Years - A Time of Optimism and Growth
After the Great Depression and World War II, everyone was ready to take a breath and have fun. Population boomed, families moved to the suburbs, television (by the end of the decade) would be in most...
Arkansas - also known as The Natural State & The Land of Opportunity.
Arkansas became a state in 1836. Part of the land that was acquired with the Louisiana Purchase and became a separate territory in 1819, Arkansas has a rich history. It was the 9th state to leave the...
Graduated from Frank W. Cox High School on Great Neck Rd in Virginia Beach, VA, in 1970 when I was 17 years old. My immediate family of four generations consists of the surnames: Mason, Higgerson, McKenzie, Norwood, Mertens, Garrison, Harris, Weckenmann, Chewning, Wimp, Merzenich, and Werz.