Charles William Spratt

The Reason Behind My Mother's Name That She Hated

My mother was the tenth child and she too young to argue about her name that she grew up hating all of her life . When she introduced herself at school functions she used her middle name Ruth and all of the family used her nickname “ Sis “. It was...
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Charles William Spratt

My Memories Of Grandma Beavers

My Memories Of Grandma Beavers
Millard “ Don “ Carriker and I are first cousins . He is also a member of Legacy Stories . Matter of fact he is the one that told me about this program . To my memory we have never met in person but a few years ago we met on...
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Charles William Spratt

Oh Give Me Home Where The Buffalo Roam

Oh Give Me Home Where The Buffalo Roam
In July 1903 my Grandpa Spratt had finished his homestead time on 40 acres of land just south of Ft Smith Arkansas. By November 1907 Oklahoma was a new state and had new opportunities. My Grandpa was just an old poor farmer looking for a better life for his family of...
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Charles William Spratt

The Most Challenging And Most Important Job I Ever Had

The most important and most challenging job that I have attacked was bringing two families together in peace with my wife. I started in April 1988. My wife’s daughter was a strong spirited seven years old that her father had died with a heart attack suddenly three and half years prior...
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Charles William Spratt

My Mother Vs My Grandmother

All of my life my mother hasn’t liked her mother in law . My Mom and Dad got married and lived with my Dad’s folks for awhile after they were married . My Grandmother ( Her mother in law ) said something that didn’t set well with my mother and my...
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Charles William Spratt

Thanks For The Memories

It was going to be a full day of nothing but fun for my older brother and I. My brother was four years and four months older than me so he got to help keep me entertained ( out of trouble). We left early in the morning for the forty mile...
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Charles William Spratt

The Day My Oldest Son Showed He Was A Man

It was a cool day in October 2009 in illinois. We were having a funeral   today . It was for my son that was that had turned 35 years old in August . I was their bouncingoff the walls . That’s just the way I was handling it . My...
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Karen Jenkins

She'll Meet Me At The Gates

Who would I most like to talk to? She and I have made plans for her to meet me when I cross over.

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Annie Payne

Falling in Love - '60's style

Falling in Love - '60's style
Normal 0 false false false EN-AU X-NONE X-NONE I fell in love not long after I’d commenced my nursing training and perhaps the two were somehow connected? In the 1960’s Australian student nurses were required to ‘live in’ in the Nurse’s Home, on the hospital premises, where we were subjected to...
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Charles William Spratt

A Tribute To My Adopted Cajun Brother In Law

A Tribute To My Adopted Cajun Brother In Law
This is a tribute to my adopted brother in law that passed away this last year . He lived in East Texas 20 miles from Louisiana and was half Cajun and proud of it . Paul Burch Jr   1958-2011     What is a Coonass? There are a few different...
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Charles William Spratt

I hope My Wife Approves

When I was young and DUMB and before my wife died in childbirth in 1979 at the age of 28 . I was 32 years old and she was a stay at home Mom taking care of our two sons . I would go to work and people would ask me...
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Doris Ross Reddick

Clemmie - Doris - Clemmie

Clemmie - Doris - Clemmie
As a child,Clemmie Ross predicted she would have a daughter, her name would be "Doris and she will be a teacher". Her only child's name is Doris and she became a teacher. What Mother Clemmie could not have imagined is how significant to so many other lives this love of her...
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Charles William Spratt

My Jewel Tea Truck

My Jewel Tea Truck
It always seems to me that 1956 is the year to remember. I know my Dad had a big piece of pipe fall on his leg and crush the bone in his lower leg. He was off of work for a long time. They had to put a silver plate in...
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Charles William Spratt

My Best Friend

I’ve had a lot of very good friends in my life . Some have been what you would say best friends . When my first wife died I had a fried that I worked with that I had went to Tech School with . He stuck with me like glue ....
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Christine Cormier

Christine & Tom courtship...

Christine & Tom courtship...
One late summer evening August 25, 1968 I met a boy named Tommy Cormier. He was wearing Striped bell bottoms and a cotton shirt. I had a summer dress on as it was hot that evening. My sister said there was someone waiting at the door to see me. When I...
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Susan Darbro

Friendship

Our story prompt this week is "What does a true friend mean to you, who fits that description and why?" This assignment is a lot to chew on! It isn't as easy a topic as might appear at first blush, so I decided to start by looking up the word "friend"...
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Karen Jenkins

Forever was not to be, but we surely had the time of our lives!

No date for me tonight.   A busy Friday night at the fraternities and here I sit.   In Smedes Parlor.   As the fellows arrive to fetch their dates, I get their names and page the girls that their date has arrived.   Each of us has this duty twice...
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Sandy Jones

First Love

This months' question pertaining to our first serious relationship is a little tricky and bittersweet. Looking back, most of my early relationships were filled with plenty of girl-drama, and were not very long and not what I'd call "serious" by my standards today, but at the time I certainly I thought they were! ...
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Charles William Spratt

Our Compound In Viet Nam

Our Compound In Viet Nam
Our compound was at the bottom of a large hill . At the top of this hill was a Signal Corp Unit . Between us and the top of the hill was nothing but jungle . Our mess hall sat at the bottom of the hill . This was our Mess...
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Diane J. Adams

My Adolescent Years - Double The Trouble and Double the Fun

My Adolescent Years - Double The Trouble and Double the Fun
My adolescent years are filled with wonderful memories of family and friends as well as the challenges of growing up and discovering who you are. Deanne and I became the best of friends all through life and most of my memories are with her. Although my mother would make all of...
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