Born in Keller, Tarrant, TX. He was the 3rd of 4 sons and 5 daughters born to Valentine "Vol" Allen and Susan Alice Wilson. He said that when his parent's family lived at Keller he could watch his older brothers on horseback chase wild, fat turkey goblers from one oak thicket to another. When the turkeys tired out the family had turkey dinner!
He did not marry until he was 33, when he married Golda Mae Flanagan 2 Jun 1917 in Lubbock, Texas. They met while working in the laundry. They had 8 children, one of whom died at birth. They were: Mildred Catherine, Alvin "Si", Mary Frances, L. D., Willie Gerald "Jerry". Betty Joyce, Patsy Ann and a baby girl who died at her birth.
He moved his family to Mesa, AZ, in Jan of 1939, where he bought and sold livestock.
Leslie worked as a teamster, well-driller, ice puller, laundryman, farm hand and, after marriage, as a share cropper during the Great Depression of the 1930s. He was good with horses or mules and never owned a tractor.
He did not marry until he was 33, when he married Golda Mae Flanagan 2 Jun 1917 in Lubbock, Texas. They met while working in the laundry. They had 8 children, one of whom died at birth. They were: Mildred Catherine, Alvin "Si", Mary Frances, L. D., Willie Gerald "Jerry". Betty Joyce, Patsy Ann and a baby girl who died at her birth.
He moved his family to Mesa, AZ, in Jan of 1939, where he bought and sold livestock.
Leslie worked as a teamster, well-driller, ice puller, laundryman, farm hand and, after marriage, as a share cropper during the Great Depression of the 1930s. He was good with horses or mules and never owned a tractor.
Born in Keller, Tarrant, TX. He was the 3rd of 4 sons and 5 daughters born to Valentine "Vol" Allen and Susan Alice Wilson. He said that when his parent's family lived at Keller he could watch his older brothers on horseback chase wild, fat turkey goblers from one oak thicket to another. When the turkeys tired out the family had turkey dinner!
He did not marry until he was 33, when he married Golda Mae Flanagan 2 Jun 1917 in Lubbock, Texas. They met while working in the laundry. They had 8 children, one of whom died at birth. They were: Mildred Catherine, Alvin "Si", Mary Frances, L. D., Willie Gerald "Jerry". Betty Joyce, Patsy Ann and a baby girl who died at her birth.
He moved his family to Mesa, AZ, in Jan of 1939, where he bought and sold livestock.
Leslie worked as a teamster, well-driller, ice puller, laundryman, farm hand and, after marriage, as a share cropper during the Great Depression of the 1930s. He was good with horses or mules and never owned a tractor.
He did not marry until he was 33, when he married Golda Mae Flanagan 2 Jun 1917 in Lubbock, Texas. They met while working in the laundry. They had 8 children, one of whom died at birth. They were: Mildred Catherine, Alvin "Si", Mary Frances, L. D., Willie Gerald "Jerry". Betty Joyce, Patsy Ann and a baby girl who died at her birth.
He moved his family to Mesa, AZ, in Jan of 1939, where he bought and sold livestock.
Leslie worked as a teamster, well-driller, ice puller, laundryman, farm hand and, after marriage, as a share cropper during the Great Depression of the 1930s. He was good with horses or mules and never owned a tractor.
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