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GRANDDAD’S LIFE PART 9 Posted on December 26, 2012 by Martin Jones
In the late l920’s
or early l930’s as his family grew it became necessary for my dad to provide a
larger house. There was a 90 acre, more or less, farm that bordered the town of
Thalia. It was owned by J.H. Laneer who lived in Crowell. There was a pretty
nice 4 room house on it. I remember also the smoke house, and a big barn with a
loft for storing feed for the animals. Daddy rented the land and bought himself
a team of 4 horses, and we moved to what we called up on the hill. It is
important to note that he did not give up his trucking business. He did a lot
of the farming at night. This all happened at the beginning of the great
depression. Not only was daddy working night and day providing for his family,
he was making sure his father and mother were taken care of. They moved into
his 2 room house and lived there until after the depression.
The depression worsened, and Daddy
leased his trucks to the State, which was leasing trucks to build highways etc.
At that time the state did not own trucks or mowers for the highways. He also
bought a small tractor with a mower and leased it to the state to mow the sides
of the highways. I do not remember how many trucks he had when the depression
hit, but I know that at one time he had bought 3 trucks, and his 3 brothers
were driving them. I do not remember us having to do without any thing. I guess
we were considered along with the men with mail routes and other government
jobs. Compared to the population I guess we were considered rich. Daddy was
fortunate to have been in the trucking business and get on with the state. I
remember him having trucks working on highway 70, Highway 287, and the highway
being built between Lubbock and Wichita Falls.
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