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Born July 20 1943 in a home in Knox country Tn. This information was related to me by my mother and her two sister. App Two wk. after I arrived I was chocking. The doctor arrive about two am, after looking me over ,he asked my mother what undertaker should he call. Ant zale said I don’t think he is dead! She put a handkerchief over my mouth and blew in to me and I came back to life. My mother and my two ants told this to me on many occasions

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Pit one talking about the West. picture 2 entertaining, with Ropes Whip and guns.

For the first four or five years of my life I was rase buy, my Father and Grandmother, we lived at a house six and Massachusetts ave NW Washington Dc, then Day bought a rooming house located at 811 Six st. N.W. across from Mary Surratt’s home where the lincoln association was plan’

My first recognition of life was people looking down in my baby crin and talking I may have baby talk to me. I may have been two or three dad did not have a lot of money so I would have stayed in that bed till I outgrew it.

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Entertaining in Waldorf Md pit on right is from a newspaper in Pa

My loves stat\rted on F st. in dc that is where all the movies were located when I was young Dad and I went on sat and Sunday in those days a movie was a double feature. we saw roy rogers he took me to see jonny mac brown if I would eat my please a heck of a price to see a great cowboy movie

That me hanging fifty feet in the air spinning two ropes and two guns on the chaps came from nagoes

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My grandmother was my mother she had spent much of her young life in the land rush in the Indian territory of ok. She would say Butch those cowboy movie that you and bill go to see don’t tell how tough the cowboys really were on Saturday night when they got to drinking

The photo is the left Mitton in monument valley ut. John Ford Made many movies there.

I wrote and publish this magazine,Rest of the west pub by branded publishing co. money that I had set aside got stolen so I left Frederick md with fifity dollars in my pocket tool a pup tent with a sleeping bag travel eight thousand miles got home had two hundred and forty dollars in my pocket. i would just stop at a business and make my sale pitch they sold best in the morning I would go into a eating place take about twenty books a start singing them people would come over and ask if they could buy an autograph one. i was so broke they could have bought just one page

Grandmother Nelly Mcginley taught me to be strong, have principal, and love God and my country Never used the N-word, not because it was not politically correct But because it would hurt a fellow person feeling.

She had lots of saying ‘Enough is enough, He wants to live, On marriage first-month honey second-month pie the third month of marriage Get up you s.o.b. and work as well as I

Her advice to a boy of five. Never married a woman that is lazy a wife has to get up a four am to start making bilquiet and fixen breatfesgt for the men fokes, If you don’t feed you’r husband then he will not be strong enough to plow the fields, then there no food and no ones eats.

When you get married stay married the more x wifes you have the more amamony you will pay.

This is a novel that I wrote and published, the story go from the franklin mt west of elpasao to cayon de Chello az all these places I have been. Bill Russell gave me the plot Bill I met on my bus he had been a writther for bonza, hi chapperal and twelve o’clock hi.

I read a book on writing western novels bu Matt brumn he said that a western hero should come out of nowhere have strong skill so that were I got the idea From nowhere

My mother and father, broke up and for many years I only saw mom ever year or so,she was a good person and devoted all her energy in raising my older brother Waddevoted husband.e, a wonderful brother,dad and great husband.

below is mom faviort picture of me. also a picture of dad and mom,my Brother Wade Weaver

My Grandmother Nelly McGinley along with my Father and my Uncle rase me up till the Time I got Married.

As a young child, I had a speech impediment along with being deleciex The learning problem I did not know about until I was in my fifity.

I could not say Grandmother correctly and it came out ganlie and that was her name the rest of her life.

She knew that me and dad went to see the double feature every sat and Sunday. She was conserved and felt that movie was a sin. She had been out in oak with other settler and she would tell me great stories.

One of here favorites was she got bit by a scorpion and the cowboys held her down and pour wicket down her thought. She said “Buth that movie you and bill go to don’t show you the real cowboy on Saturday night when they got drunk and started to whoop it up they fought and fought and drank and fought even more.

I hope to find a picture of her if I have any Grint in me it came from her and dad.

another store she told many times was when we live on six and mass ave nw I was on the porch about four yr old d I had hard candy in my mouth I fell and sucked it down my thought she said he pick me up but I was not breathing,you were blue in the face as blue could get. She scream for help but there was none. at the very last moment my Father came down the walkway, he had got lay off that day.

Dad pick me up by my feet and slap me on the back so hard that the candy left me and flew across the pourch.

Because she told me that store so often. it taught me in times of danger don’t stand around do something, Yep Dad was a good man he stood tall in the Saddle!

Close to a pedal car that dad bought me

Grandmother teaches with true stores

She told me about the west, her first and only great love was with her late husband Will McGinley. she said There was never a better man than ever walked the earth. she mention that she and her sister married two brothers, you know that makes finger out your geneorogy hard.

Many times she mentions a man hast to start plowing the fields at sun rise and do hard work till sundown.

Butch, that was my nickname. Never marry a lazy woman a wife needs to start making biscuit and breakat fast at about four in the morning. get the men folks off and then start doing the wash,hoe the garden ,make lunch, and taken it to the men out in the fields, they don’t have time to bring the plow animal back and forth.

She talked about Will her husband, and how he got kicked by muel it cracked his rib. “He did not listen to the doctor, went back to work the next day one of the rib broke and he died.

She loved him very much, She now was a widower, because of her love to her late husband she never got married again.

She had two sons to raise William carl McGinley (My wonderful Father, and earnest McGinley}

Looking back Earn was her favorite, he was a sickly child and as an adult, he would women lead him around like a calf. He was mentally my uncle learn to write jewis weak, but Dletnad was the one she talked about the most.

Dad walked to school and had a red hot controllable temper. most kids walked if they could not afford a horse. Dad would get mad at a couple of boys, he would leave school quickly. then on the road that the kids would take he would clime a tree over the road. Ehen those evil kids would walked under the tree that hung over the road. Dad would dropdown on the boys and beat the stufflen out of them,

That me ridding a Parra sale about two hundred feet above the ground.

Another one of her favorite stores Your dad got into his head that he make a parachute out an umbrella, when he had it finished he went up in the hay loft of a barn, he jumped when he landed he now had two broken legs for his trouble, well back to the old drawing board.

Dad had Great stores also, which I heard many times

ones was how he lost his right eye, it got blown out from a settle lean torch when he was a young plumber.

The insurance company gave about eight hundred dollars, dad wanted to buy a t motel ford, His mother ,my grandmother taken him into putting it in the bank for a rainy day, Dad said it seem like in the next day or so the banks went broke because of the stock market crash The Great Depression

At four My grandmother put me into kindgarden. I only remember the head teacher mrs donnecot.

I loved kind gather it was called the gospel mission it was a methods church. I loved Bibble history, like it when they rolled out the oilcloth and we made things with play doe, the only thing I could make was a snake my mother skill develop very slow.

I still remember Mrs donnycock putting up pia cture of jessus walking on wathe ter, She instill my love and respect of Jessus.

We play a game called musical chair, my grandmother call it King chairs. the first time we played I won and my prize was a snow-white and seven dwarfs I was very proud, Grandmother made me put in her large trunk: you want to save this for a keepsake.

Tough Love

I Dad, and ever male member of the familial smoked, i see them light up and asked for a smoke. I would only take a puff and thought it down.

Finially i asked dad for a smoke and he tole me these thing cost money, if i give you one you will smoked it!

He wond’nt let me put it out until i turned blue and red in the face. You know his thought love may be the reason i am here today. I don’t smoke cigarettes a and very few cigars. Thanks dad for saving my life

Dad Wade And Me

Her trunk Later on in life when I told my friend about the trunk they called it her hope chess. She kep many thing in it. Lennon table cloth napkins the shoes from her brother that got run over by a street car in tenn they were cut in half. my snowflake and the seven dwarth. my baby shoes. Her family bibble which she had turned into a History book

Dad came into some money So he wanted to buy her a Washington machine. st that time see wash our close in a wash bucket then hund then on a close line in the back yard.

She would not let Dad buy her one with an electric ringer, she was afraid that she might get her arm caught in the ringefr so she got a Washington machine with a manual ringer. Ill see if I can find one on google

Off to kindgarding

my memory of kindagding were great. She enrolled me at the gospel mission at fifth and h st nw Washington dc It was run by the methodic church. My lead teacher was Mrs doncoct I was about four years old.

I loved bibble,history they would used cutout of Jesus and put it on the large board showing jessus walking on water. etc

onone occasion the preater ask if any one wanted for him to visit and pray with us. i asked him to come and pray that My father would not drink beer. Dad did not drink much but I thought beer was bad.

A week or so went by and we got a knock on our door. She open and the preacher walked in and said that I ask him to come and pray that dad would give up beer. Day turned and starting for the back door, bu grandmother grabbed him by his shirt tale he drug her for a few feet till the preacher got his attention, We all prayed, when he left I thought that Dad would be mad, not so he pick me up gave me a kiss and a big hug.

Dad actually only spank me several times, and it would make him mad because I would not cry,Grandmother probably three or four times usually with a switch.

We moved from eight eleven sixth st to forty new your ave n.e. Washington d.c. It was a three-floor rowe home in an italiton neighborhood. we had fig trees in the yard, a two car grade. no room tp play the property was commercial, dag paid ten thousand and five hundred for it.

Dad went into business he started the new york avenew saw shop.

In the fifity realstate co-started doing blockbusting. That a program where they would sell a home to a black family. Then people would want to moved they practically gave there homes away. Our home went down to $4500 but he did not sell and that was my home Till I got married in 1968,

We were close to my Mother on occasion dad and mom would date they we would go out two or three times then they would have a falling out. It is a hard thing for a child to get between two family members when they are fighting,

That my Mom ann mcginley we are in new york.

One family outing I remember was when went on a picknick on the edge of the blue ridge mountain. Mo m was a good singer, and I loved to listen, She sang a song that caught my fancy Moncking bird hill, I had her sing me the song many.many times that day

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I was a difficult eater I did not like anything but hamburgers hot dogs and the great food my grandmother made, Mom had success in getting me to try different things. she got me to eat an olive and I like it and love them today

Dad buy a 1953 panel truck so he could make deliveries to the sawmills. and lumber yard was green and it was call a c dan deliver

I loved dad being home he spent so much of his time making me happy, I would ride with him but sitting the truck by myself seem so long but soon he would returned and I would be happy again.

Because of the hunger and hard times dad had during the great it was at depression his mission in life was to make sure I never experience hunger, all I had to say ” Dad I am getting hungry” it would seem like all four wheel would come on soon we were a the little taver and dad would by me six little ones they cost ten cent each he would get two of the big ones they cost fifteen cent each

we lived at 40 new york ave n.e.at that time it was an Italian neberhood

Our neberhood was changing and dad and my grandmother reg me in a catholic school. because I was not a catholic my feed was forty a semester catholic were on twenty.

I had never see a nun and sister suseilla get wi me and ganlie she was short covered in black with white around her upper body I though I was looking at a pinglun

her clas was fun and I did well many A

The principal was father fuller he was strong with white hair at lunch time he would swing us kids around and never run out of energy.

he was in charge of the boy scouts. also he had aprint shop he did all the printing for all the scout trup in the nation capital. he would baptise me when I was eleven and at the age of twenty three he would perform the marage serimory