50 YEARS AGO TODAY

December 8,1958



The next day Coy came and picked me up and we went back to Aunt Dovies where they would call when the Western Union came in. We set on the porch a lot and just talked. About 1:PM Mother called and told me to get home and not to come back the way I left. I did not know what she was talking about until I got home. Aunt Sylvia had come over and told her I was sitting in Coys lap (that was a no no in those days} when we left. I could not have been, he was driving. About 4 PM we got the message and his dad's conscent to get married. We were married by JP his name was AJ Speck and was on our way to California about 6:30 PM. I set in Coy's lap nearly all the way to California, there was no place else to sit. There was five (5) Kids and (4) Adults but kids at heart. That was a wonderful day to be with the man I loved and had for a long time. I thought it would never happen, he had so many girls after him, but it did. It was just ment to be.

When we got in Little Rock Jim (Coy's brother) drove under a low bridge and wiped everything off the top of the car. What a mess. They got all that put back up and we was on the road again. Later that night we stopped to rest, if you know what I mean, I was walking up toward the station and Coy was staying in the car I thought, but actually he sneaked up behind me and picked me up and thru me up in the air but when I came down he got a surprise, I slapped him so hard. He almost hit me with is fist. He said you better never do that again, well maybe once or twice. There I was far away from home which I had never been and in a foreign land "as far as I was concerned" He scared me so bad. He never did that again.

There is many stories I am going to tell about our first few months of marriage. It was a real trip, good times and bad.
24 hours after we was married we had a wreck in Amorilla Texas. NEXT BLOG