My Mother was a wonder.  I don't care, you could not hook her up wrong.  She could do anything.

My Dad was crippled.  It happened when my Mother was carrying me and Riley.  My Father went into a pool room and Saw White, a Deputy Sheriff, was playing with a gun.  He was about half drunk.

My Dad told him not to play with that gun someone could get shot.
The deputy told my Dad, "If you don't shut your mouth I will use it on you."
My oldest half brother, Aldie, overheard this and said,
"You don't have the guts to shoot my Dad."
He hit my half brother with the butt of the gun.
The Deputy then shot my Dad two times.  One time in the right shoulder.  His hand and should were crippled from the injury. 
The family sued the Bonding Company and my Dad got $2100. from them.
Things were rough.  During WWI, Dad was in the logging business.
The best payday he ever drew was $900.  He had 18 fifty dollar bills, after he paid his men.
I asked, "Why don't you have some of that money now?"
He said, "You don't raise a family like I raised and have any money".
There were four sisters and one brother who came after we were born.

Dad died in 1959, he was 90 years old.

We had it rough during the Depression.
We had cornbread and water gravy for breakfast.  We didn't necessarily care for that for breakfast.  One day a old man came by and knocked on our door and asked for something to eat.  He said he was starving.  It was common during the Depression for people to knock on your door and ask for something to eat.
I will never forget what my Dad said,  "If you can eat what we eat, you are welcome to join us."
I watched that old man eat that cornbread and water gravy and how he enjoyed that so much, I never complained after that about what we had to eat.

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