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But a little later I met a lovely girl from Georgia and in Jan. 21, 1935, (her name was Zelia Cleo Black) we was united in marriage in Los Angeles at about 12:00 o'clock noon across the street from city hall by a one-armed preacher in the wedding chapel. I was a very happy man. We went and stayed a few days with my dear Aunt Addie McGee, and then I came back to Trona to find a place to live, and the Lord was with me. A friend of mine had a place rented that he had been paying rent on for a couple of months or so as he was going to get married. So he hadn't got married yet, so we sub-rented it from him till he got married, and by that time we had found another place to rent in the same apartments. This place was called a hog ranch. It is now known as the Bowman ranch. It was 23 miles from Trona.
There was no place any closer to Trona to live or at least rent. It was an adobe apartment house. So we did have furniture ordered from Sears which was to be shipped soon, but they shipped it on up to Lone Pine, and we didn't know where it was at. So for almost two weeks we kept going to Inyokern looking for it. Finally we had our cousin Fay to call Sears, and they said it was shipped to Lone Pine, so she told them to ship it to Trona. So in a few days we got it. Our good neighbor loaned us stuff till we got ours. We lived there a few months, and then we moved to Inyokern and lived there by the old Believe It or Not Hotel for almost a year, and then we finally found a house in Borosolvay, about three miles from Trona.
We were living in Inyokern when our first child was born, a sweet little girl, which we named Patricia Louise Stevens. We were very proud of her. Then our second one came along, a sweet little boy who was born in Trona Hospital on July the 4th. He was a little firecracker. Ha, ha! He made us very happy and proud of him. We named him Joel.
At that time we lived in Borosolvay which was about three miles south of Trona. The house in Borosolvay used to be a schoolhouse and had four apartments with a hall down the center and a bathroom on one end. I was two and a half years old when Joel was born and one day I decided to take him out of the bassinet and took him down the hall to show him to the neighbors. Joel was an active baby and when he was about four months old would pull himself up on the sides of the bassinet and tip it over, so he had to be moved to a crib. When he was eight months old he learned to walk. Our apartment was heated with an oil heater that sat in the middle of the living room. When he was learning to walk he put his hand on the heater and got a blister that covered the palm of his hand. Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 Page 5 Page 6 Page 7 Page 8 Last Update: 02/09/2004 |
