The first I really remember meeting James, he was in the Air Force stationed in Wichita Falls TX. His sister, Ora Vercie (Funderburk) Adcock was my aunt by marriage. She married my Mother's brother, Jobe Truman Adcock Uncle JT) My folks lived at Hart, Tx., and Uncle J and Aunt Ora lived out in the country, on the Shive place. Uncle J was a farm hand and worked for Mr. Leroy Shive. I think his pay was $40 a month, plus house and bills. Come harvest time, the hands got a bonus.
Ora was pregnant with Bennie Gayle at the time, but they decided to go to Wichita Falls to see James. I went with them.
Actually, my folks had known the Funderburk's for years. Mrs. Funderburk came to help mother with Chris when she was born. (We lived in AR at that time.) James and I had played paper dolls together back then.
James went AWOL and came to Hart and we wound up getting married.
I had been back to AR several times with J T & Ora and had, of course, met the Funderburks.Bill and Margie lived at Horatio, AR. Bertha lived at Murfreesboro with Mr & Mrs Funderburk. They lived in a big two-story house by the hardware store _ I am not sure of the street name, but it was just off the square (courthouse square). Bertha had Lloyd, Laverne, and Lorita by her first husband, Frank Ashley. She had Linda Kay and Lorene by her second husband, Ira Cox.
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