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Note: Bess Alethia Gready remembered: Most of their married life was lived in the Panama Canal Zone, from the time of its opening until the presidential term of an unthinking James Earl Carter of Plains, Georgia. Uncle Arthur was manager of a gravel plant. What the purpose of it was I do not know. Both he and Aunt Lena seemed to enjoy their life there. They had a large and pleasant home and domestic help was cheap. Uncle Arthur was boss over a large number of natives and learned pidgin Spanish. He would save his annual leave (this was a U.S. government job) and every four years the two of them came up to the states for 4 months. They would go direct to Detroit and buy a car (travel was by boat and train), then visit all the Adair sisters. In Charleston, Daddy and Mother were their host and hostess. Uncle Arthur continued to visit even asfter Aunt Lena died.
Uncle Arthur married again, a lady from New Orleans. She was living at time of his death and came to Charleston for the burial. As the other Adairs had disapproved of the second marriager, I was the only member of the Adair families to atytend the funeral.
Aunt Lena was soft spoken and gentle like her sister Nettie. She seemed to love her husband and was very concerned when he appeared sick or hurt. Uncle Arthur was the tallest husband of the Adair girls (except for Dick Beatty), a non-stop talker and full of tales. They lived a short time in Charleston having bought a house in Byrnes Downs.
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