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Note: The first time that I remember seeing Alfred was on a Sunday afternoon. He was working on the farm for Brice Tuberville at the time. He came to our house to see Dorothy. I must of been about nine or ten years old, which would make it about 1939 or 40. He was wearing a blue silk western style shirt, a wide belt, Cowboy boots and of course a cowboy hat. He was carrying a guitar but I don't remember him ever being able to play. To me he was Gene Autrey or Tex Ritter in the flesh. After he left the adults in the family said that he hid a bottle of whiskey in the woodpile when he came. When WWW. II. began he enlisted in the army at Lyons Kansas,while following the wheat harvest and served in Europe. It was while he was in training in Alabama that he and Dorothy were married and she went to Alabama to be near the training camp where he was. After the war he came home and built the house that they lived in until both died. Alfred was one who was always willing to take the lead in most everything. He was the first to get up a party to sit with the dead , or dig a grave, which was the custom in that day. He was loud and liked to defend his opinions on everything. At the time of his death he owned and operated the Chidester Gulf Station in Chidester. All in all he was a good man in my opinion.
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