Title: U. S. Census Page: Granville county Brassfield District 1920
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Note: Ronald was in the Army during the war. He did not talk much about it. I did hear him talk about being in Alaska, and being in the cavalry. His unit was cut off and they had to eat their horses due to this. I later found out that he was in the units that the Japanese cut off and almost captured. After this he was put in the artillery, and was in Europe. Ronald, as far as I can remember, always had big hands and his nails were always thick. He told the story, after the fighting stopped, he and others in his unit would go into town and go to a manicurist. An artilleryman would have very dirty hands and banged up nails. They got a laugh when the manicurist tried to make their nails clean and nice. This may sound like a trivial thing, but I can remember when anything for a laugh is all that kept you going in the military. I remember Ronald having a drinking problem, when I was young. He went to work in a tobacco factory, while I was still small. Ronald always seemed to have more than one job. He was into repairing small appliances, and had a shop in his garage. One Sunday in about 1959 I was at his house on a Sunday. Early that morning Ronald, Johnny, and I went to town for something. Where ever we stopped Ronald talked to a man for a while. After we left he told me that he was a relative of mine. Later I found out that he was uncle Donald. Donald was a brother to Ronald's dad, my grandfather. That was the first time I have a recallable memory of me realizing that I have relatives, besides 2 uncles and a grandmother, and grandfather. I am pretty sure this was in 1959.
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