Some time at the end of a hot summer many years ago I was fast asleep in bed with my brother J.D.on the old farm near Ash Grove Mo. (I was about 8 or 9 he was about 13). When Ol’ Major (part hound and Read More …
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Thanks Giving
It’s time to give thanks again and lord knows I have reasons for that. Lots of things could have gone wrong over the years and in spite of all the wrong turns I’ve made it’s still not that bad. I could start making a list Read More …
Surounded by Water
I talked to my son James this morning who lives in Astoria New York. Astoria is on an Island more or less with water on all sides and it’s not that big. I was sure he would get flooded out since he lives in a Read More …
Paul, Jennings and Harry Young
My Father told me a story about the worst gun fight, Officers of the law ever had and still holds the terrible record for a gun battle “killed in the line of duty” to this day. January 2nd of 1932 Police went to a farm Read More …
’bout a Quarter Mile From Here
The Inman’s and the McConnell’s came into the Nixa Mo. area in 1853. The land at that time was something of a frontier with no towns or settlements and virtually no law. When the Civil War broke out my Great Granddad John Wesley Inman joined Read More …