Thanks to Robert Bryant Jarman, Sr. for including my grandfather's record to Find-A-Grave.
I never knew Papa. Daddy's stories of him made me think of him as a hardworking hero, but my cousin Mary Elizabeth gave me more detail. He was a sharecropper who loved his children, nonetheless. Although he wasn't the best provider, his son, my father, loved him and taught me to love him. Daddy dropped his father's gun in the river and expected a whipping when he got home, but Papa merely said, 'Looks like you learned a lesson. That's all that needs to be said,' and made him clean the gun. Papa died of a massive heart attack in his 53rd year, only eight months before I was born. My mother loved him. His last words to her were 'Take care of that baby.'
I never knew Papa. Daddy's stories of him made me think of him as a hardworking hero, but my cousin Mary Elizabeth gave me more detail. He was a sharecropper who loved his children, nonetheless. Although he wasn't the best provider, his son, my father, loved him and taught me to love him. Daddy dropped his father's gun in the river and expected a whipping when he got home, but Papa merely said, 'Looks like you learned a lesson. That's all that needs to be said,' and made him clean the gun. Papa died of a massive heart attack in his 53rd year, only eight months before I was born. My mother loved him. His last words to her were 'Take care of that baby.'
Thanks to Robert Bryant Jarman, Sr. for including my grandfather's record to Find-A-Grave.
I never knew Papa. Daddy's stories of him made me think of him as a hardworking hero, but my cousin Mary Elizabeth gave me more detail. He was a sharecropper who loved his children, nonetheless. Although he wasn't the best provider, his son, my father, loved him and taught me to love him. Daddy dropped his father's gun in the river and expected a whipping when he got home, but Papa merely said, 'Looks like you learned a lesson. That's all that needs to be said,' and made him clean the gun. Papa died of a massive heart attack in his 53rd year, only eight months before I was born. My mother loved him. His last words to her were 'Take care of that baby.'
I never knew Papa. Daddy's stories of him made me think of him as a hardworking hero, but my cousin Mary Elizabeth gave me more detail. He was a sharecropper who loved his children, nonetheless. Although he wasn't the best provider, his son, my father, loved him and taught me to love him. Daddy dropped his father's gun in the river and expected a whipping when he got home, but Papa merely said, 'Looks like you learned a lesson. That's all that needs to be said,' and made him clean the gun. Papa died of a massive heart attack in his 53rd year, only eight months before I was born. My mother loved him. His last words to her were 'Take care of that baby.'
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