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a. Note:   This was sent to me from Doris Craig Allman. Now, about Uncle Ross. I know more about him as he was with the folks for quite awhile before dad died on June 20, 1941. He came one day and knocked on the folk's door. Dad was up town, he probably would have know him. Gladys went to the door and he asked for mom. She was under the weather and was lying down but she came to the door. He was a sorry looking fellow. Dirty, and had been riding in a freight car. He asked mom if she knew him and she said no. Hadn't seen or heard of him for thirty years (presumed dead). She finally said Ross and he said yes and she asked him in. She got him some of dad's underwear and shirt and overalls. No one had many clothes in depression time. This must have been around 1939. He had absolutely nothing. Luckily for him mom had kept his Army discharge papers which grandma had kept. So took him to a lawyer and they soon had him a small pension. He fished and hunted arrowheads with dad, but dad was poorly and died. When dad became so poorly Uncle Ross left as he said he didn't want to be where he was ill, so he went to the Cooper Ranch, I would remember Grandma Hurd singing(and weeping) "Where is My Wondering Boy Tonight". It was hard for me to forget that entirely. His pension had added up so he bought a pickup and fixed a camper and was happy again. Now not for anything would I say anything that would hurt your memory of Uncle Ross, If you remember him. Mom never told me this, but Aunt Lou did. She said Uncle Ross, young nice looking fellow , home from Spanish American War and was up in Iowa. A town not to far and drank too much and got in a fight and was arrested and in jail. Grandpa Hurd who was in Mormon territory despised drinking so he rebuked Uncle Ross and he left home and neither his mother or father ever heard of him again. Uncle Ross was always fighting. He told me he was in California one time and was walking up the street, and a man didn't get out of him way and he just gave him a good licking. He was arrested and put in jail again. I said my goodness why didn't you just step over and he said he was on my side of the street. Oh dear he was a queer duck and caused his family much sorrow. Doris Craig is the daughter of Ella Martha Hurd. She was Uncle Ross's younger sister. I don't know if this is true or not. They said Uncle Ross was in a revolution in Mexico and was on the losing side. He spent many years in a Mexican prison. I really liked Uncle Ross. He stayed at the ranch most summers, until it was time to move to Lake MacConahy or some other lake. He would go to the Aunts and stay a week or two. He usually went to Texas in the winter. He was stabbed down there and thats what caused his death. My dad,(Oscar), Kent Pribbeno and I went to Texas to get his belongings. He had been staying in Freeport when he was hurt. The people he was staying with wouldn't let Dad have anything. We went back to Houston and saw a lawyer, but he wouldn't do anything. I think it was still North against the South, and they won. Missouri Delayed Birth Certificate dated 25, April 1942.


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