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[So I had 3 brothers.. and the rest were sisters. ] *huh.. [Smiles]
**Were you the youngest? [No.. look at that picture over there see? Their in .. they are in order.. ]
[That's my mother and daddy in front.. ] *Nellie Jo's the youngest, huh? [Yeah..]
[That picture's getting so dark that you cant' hardly see her......] *Her's is isn't it... [yep]..
**Now is she the one who ran away with her boyfriend? [Laughs.. yes she is.... ]
**How old was she when she did that? [She was 13 years old I think.....] *huh...
**heh heh.. you'd get arrested for doing that today... [You do???]
**If you are 13 and you run away? Yeah.. you get arrested for that today.. [Oh.....]
[My Mother was gonna have the marriage annulled when they came back and everybody said: ]
[Ohhhh no no need to do that now they've already slept together! so just let em stay! So they stayed but they fought like cats and dogs!!]
**Her and her husband did? [Yeah! They'd throw knives across the table at one another....]
[And they'd throw their food and get mad and just throw their food around...] **Where did they live??
[We had.. there was a little house down below our big house and they lived in that...]
[You could hear em screamin and hollerin up there....] *heh heh....
**wow [one time willard.. when he was just a little boy.. and they had a little boy.. Jimmy was their oldest one.. and uhh Ricky.. I mean.. Willard and Jimmy grew up together]
[Willard went down there one time and he come back just a runnin and puffin..]
[ he says I'm not never going back down there anymore... They're just throwing their food away and throwing knives and forks and everything at one another!]
**Wow [He says I'm not going back!!] *did he? [Ohh yeah he went back...]
** I can only imagine being married at 13 years old [well yeah well they grew up together see...]
[and they's just kids and they'd fight all the time ] **Where in the world did they get the notion to get married at 13??
[That's cause my mother allowed them to be together all the time.. they just decided they'd run off and get married...]
**How long were they gone? [Oh they weren't gone but a couple of days I don't think]
**How old was her husband? [They were about the same age] **How in the world did they get married? [laughs]
[I guess way back there then they lied about their age to get married.. ] **And that was okay then? [nods yes]
[Yeah....] ** I guess now-a-days they make you show your driver's license.
[Yeah... I don't think you had to do that then.... LOL...]
[They just lied about their age.. as long as you were 18 well you could get married and they were large for their age.. so..]
[So they made it just fine... Yeah my mother was gonna have it annulled and we all said LEAVE EM ALONE.. they've already been together.. might as wells just leave em alone]
[They just were like two little kids playing house..] **and they were married forever werent' they? [mmhmm]
[What do you see Angel??? ]
[Are you.. are you in the pickup or the car? ] **I'm in the car... [Hmmm..]
**Which one of your brothers or sisters were you closest to?? [Carrie] **Carrie? [Nods yes]
**Don't think I remember her [She's right over there.. that one riiiight up there... ]
**looks like a pretty lady [Yeah she was]..
**So what was her story? [ Well she.. they lived in Burnett, TX you now whenever they got married.. her and her husband Homer Alexander..]
[and he died.. out there.. and she stayed out there with her kids for a long time and she passed away finally..]
**How did she die? [Had a heart attack?] **in 1982.. [mmhmm.....]
[I think that's when my mother passed away.. does it say there? ] ** 64' is when she passed away it looks like..
[Ohh.. She was 64? ] **No 1964.. [Well she didn't pass away that early... ?]
**That's what it says [Oh that was her age.. she was 82...]
[hmmm] **Those are old pictures [yep...I'm outlivin all of them.. there's lulu up there.. me and her's the only two]
[See Lulu? ] *Yeah.. what's Lulu doing now? [well she's in the nursing home...]
[at hollis...] *Do you ever see her? [No.. I haven't gotten to see her in a long time....]
**She have any children? [Oh yeah...] [She had one boy and let's see.. three girls... ] **And they lived in OK as well? [No...]
[Well Nelda lives... in Lawton or.. Altus.. She's got two living in Altus...]
[Let's see... I don't know where they're all living...] **Somewhere? [Somewhere..] **Do they go visit her alot? [No.. I don't think they do...]
[I think they are doing a little bit better than they used to but there for a while she was so crabby to em...]
**Really? [Ohhh yeah... ] **I always remember her being a little bit crabby [Yeah I think she is a little bit crabby yet...]
**laughs... I remember going to visit Lois [Yeah.. Lois was a sweet person... ] **And I remember she was living in that home....
**living in that same home that Lulu was living in and uhh.. I guess we were all staying over there or something.. apartments? and I remember uhmm Jason and Key were there.. and I don't remember what happened but Jason made me really mad ..
**And richard did too.. and I remember I slept on the floor that night and I woke everyone up screamin... I remember I was dreaming about screaming at them..
**Next thing I know people were waking up asking me what I was doing.. [laughs... Yeah.. Walter and Lois...]
[Two fine people...... ] **Yeah I remember Lois being really nice.. I remember going out to their farm one time...
**I was really young... [We used to go to the farm alot...]
**I remember going out there like once maybe.. maybe once.. hmmm... Way out there in the middle of nowhere.. [Who do you see Angel???]