In the beginning before I was born
Wilburn "Tennessee," Ryder was in the mining camp near Copperhill, Tennessee, November 19, 1906, the eldest of nine children. His father worked in the copper mines in Copperhill Tennessee. He helped his mother raise the other siblings, while his father worked. Get over time and it was difficult to find a job in Depression Wilburn jumped on freight cars from one place to find any job he could get. He ended up in Jefferson CityTennessee zinc mines and worked. While there he met Mary Margaret Jones. Mary was going to school at the time, and his father was a teacher. Maria's mother took care of the house on George Street, where Jones lived after selling the company and moving into town.
Wilburn and Mary dated for a while and in time you are in love. Mary Wilburn gave an engagement ring, and soon after decided to get married. Wilburn has found a better paying job more in Morristown, so thatmoved. Singer sewing machines sold and Wilburn was pretty good. He also sold pianos to help. Not so long ago that Mary was pregnant and ended her days collages. Months later a baby boy is 9.3 pounds came into this world. Ryder called him John Hoyt. John was my grandfather, Jefferson City. The Hoyt was for my father, Wilburn Hoyt Ryder. While still a child, Wilburn went to New York to work helping to build the ', underground tunnels and bridges. Shortly after he sentMary to come there and bring me back. While there, I drink my milk was in my cradle, and the bottle slipped from his hand and fell to the ground. The bottle on the floor with a loud bang and broke to let the milk throughout the world. Since such a thing as a devil Dare I could just get me through the bars on my crib and my foot just over the top. Continuing to struggle, I managed to get me over the top and fell on broken glass. Then I screamed and cried a lot strongerbecause Mom and Dad came running. They saw me lying in a pool of blood with my head split. I think we should have a little 'scared because I was taken to hospital very quickly and there I received 18 stitches on the back of my head. Do not have a great fear of feeling there today, it was a true story. My grandmother was very unhappy with the thought of us in New York and the mother brought me back to Tennessee.
On behalf of my mother, my grandfather was John Paul Jones and myThe grandmother was Maud Jones. They owned the house I grew up in Jefferson City, Tennessee. They had a large farm about two miles from the city and the grandfather taught in a house in a classroom for many years. He received his education from Carson Newman College in the city. He farmed the land with my grandmother and her two children, Mary and Ralph, my mother and uncle. As things are hard 29 in the crash, he sold the company and moved to town. He bought several acres in the city anda house built.
The early years
After learning as a child and until the time of going to school. John and his life in recent years. Not much longer before starting to walk. Others, like I do not like to crush all Yuggggg mashed potatoes, not today as squash. My grandmother, "Maud" was held in a 12-year-old girl, her family said she could not afford to maintain. Her name was Sara and she was my best friend. In fact, they put their lives on the line for me. I crossed theRoad outside our house and a car flying down the road. Sara was sure I wanted to be killed, and ran like lightning, pushed me out of the path of the car. It was not so lucky, and the car hit and struck his legs. The rest of his life, Sarah had scars and limping, to live with it. What can a friend? Sarah was a true friend until the day Jesus took them.
Well, you need to know and get the same warm sensation on the area around the place I hadrun, play, learn, and to ensure that dream. I had a wonderful time with the world record. We had a large shed, barn, chicken a lot, and two large boxes just for me. There were cherry trees, pear trees, apple trees and a large strawberry field. It could, yes, we had roses and brambles with thorns, which seemed to pierce the bone at times. I had to climb into the attic to the barn between the trees and even on top of the chicken coop. We hung in Burley tobacco barn and that was greatsticks of tobacco because I had to use my trusty horse, I rode everywhere. A branch broke me and my six shooters came to help, as I chased the bad guys. It was difficult moments during the great depression and my grandmother my shirts came in sacks of feed
Loaf of bread was nine percent and the film cost a cent. Salmon patties were a main meal with corn bread. We have no running water, electricity, indoor toilet, refrigerator, car or horse, but weokay. We had a tank on the back porch with a crank, a wood stove with a tank on the side, move water to wash the dishes and my heat, the path of an adjacent building, a box of ice to keep things cold legs and two forts along. We had a hot stove in the living room the morning we use coal to heat the house, he has the heat in the house. If you can not have been better in the living room or near the wood stove in the kitchen, a coat in winter. I was the only job in the coal,House and wood in the kitchen. If large blocks of coal were always available, we would have bags of brown coal dust to fill the stove to feed. After filling out a few dozen sacks of coal dust, we were completely black with coal dust.
In three years when I was three years old when the house of a neighbor, that Moore was on the back porch I have a chill in the air in a real home for all. The men were out hunting this morning and left their weapons on the back porch, when he took huntingDresses. Well, a kid with a lot of curiosity about guns, as soon as I saw them. They were getting too heavy for Funny People collect them and I suddenly BAROOOOOOM and a large hole in the ceiling now appeared on the back porch. The whole family thought the worst Mother Moore, and Sara, little Johnny would be in a pool of blood. When they come to me and to stop the bleeding stopped, he ran, "I touched the gun and went BANG and my arm when hurteeeskipped. "The porch is still a hole in the ceiling.
Aunt Pearl worked for the WPA and helped people during the Great Depression. The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) has been a relief work for unemployed young people from families, to 21 Founded in March 1933, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and many worked in Jefferson City with the CCC. They built roads, state parks, soil erosion, build telephone and power lines. The CCC had camps where young people lived andprepared. The New Deal ended with World War II. As Roosevelt said himself in December 1943, "Dr. New Deal" was given, "Dr. win the war."
My grandmother rented the upstairs rooms for workers building the dam of Cherokee and made them take lunch to work every day. Sara and bring sandwiches and a solid piece of fruit or dessert and coffee in a thermos in one pocket to another. They fixed breakfast for them before having to work and a home cooked meal at the dinner for themTime. The workers were building a bathroom on the back porch and the city had running water only in our own way. It was wonderful. Well, if it was raining and cold I did not go near the hen house to house, about 150 yards from the back of the house. We also got a 30-liter tank of hot water and now has a shower in the bathroom on the back porch. Before that happens, the men had to go to the hairdresser to get a shower and it was 25 cents, to shower there. I neverto do. We had a big galvanized tub we put in the kitchen. We would like to fire the stove wood for cooking water in the hot water tank on the side of the oven. The hot water was turned and placed in the tub with a glass of water from the cistern. The curtain has been drawn up between the kitchen and dining room. Now was the bathroom, on Saturday night to be ready for Sunday school and church in the morning. On Saturday afternoon we would kill and snatch one or two chickens and put on iceBox for dinner on Sunday. Sunday night was usually fried chicken, mashed potatoes, corn, beans, vegetables, beets, and cookies and / or corn bread. Then there was cake or pie to round. Uncle Arch and Aunt Pearl came on most Sundays for dinner and Clifford and Juanita came many times. He went out after dinner, which lasts at least an hour each room has been set on a gaming table and the tower, rummy card or author should be.
December 7, 1941 - Japanese Bomb PearlPort and I remember that day like it was yesterday. It was dusk, and the newspaper guy screaming down George Street "bombed Pearl Harbor Extra Extra", "Read all about it," "Pearl Harbor bombed Extra Extra". This completely surrounded me like a gentle breeze touches my skin, and it felt incredibly strange that night. President Roosevelt came on the radio like all gathered and sat quietly pay close attention to every word of that sound hen AM, the radio was huge. Ihad a difficult time trying to sleep at night and my prayers seemed to comfort is not as easy as it was normal. My mind was trying to figure out a hundred miles an hour because someone something for us. I was five. Four days later, Hitler declared war on the United States. My neighbors and kinfolks were drafted or joined in to defend my country and myself. Every night we sat around the radio and listen to the great news of what was happening with the war. All gave someand some gave all. My Uncle Grafton was lost at sea in the Pacific. Many of our neighbors lost their loved ones and it was a very sad moment.
Oak Ridge was built in 1942 northwest of Knoxville with a mission to create the atomic bomb. Uncle Vincent was assigned to the Army photographer and Oak Ridge. It was like a godfather to me, and his wife, Aunt Alma, went to school with my mother. Aunt Alma's family, just two blocks away from our house. We went to Uncle and Aunt Alma Vincent visited us severalTimes. It took a month to get a passport to enter this super-secret military base and went by bus to enter the gate. Everyone was searched and the men with machine guns drove the bus with you, and you had to go to the address on the passport. Whenever the address on the left hand, you must have a companion to one of the people in your passport. This base was built during the night and all the huts were made of plywood on a concrete base and or in tents. The roads were gravel and red mud. When the war was over Uncle Vincentgave me a lot of patches and the things he used to when in the army. He seemed so proud of myself when I was with him.
Now the mother had to work to help us eat, so she was a secretary for Tennessee Coal and Iron here in Jefferson City. They built zinc, tin, galvanized buckets, and so it was. That would keep the iron from rust and prolong the lifespan of many products. The auditors work in the mines to take them and bring them home from work every day. He had aTypewriter at home and would be a lot of work to do at home.
Grammar school years and the time. Grammar School Grades 1-6, we did what is now called just started kindergarten when you were 6 years. Neither do we have a school lunch free or, if you were in the city limits. It did not take long to discover that had two hits, if they were late from the recess. One of the teachers and one when I got home. Recess for 20 minutes in the morning andAfternoon. We take on the swing, play Jungle Jim, go merrily around, shooting marbles or PAL to share with your friends. We have always solved the problems of the world during the break, or at least I thought we dealt with the right answer for every problem in our world. Most of us carried their lunch in a brown paper bag and those who were 15 cents to buy lunch in the canteen to eat. We ate out in good standing when it rained. All wax paper or foil were collected on the way back to our classwhen the doorbell rang. Many of us wore shirts bags of feed and a pair of jeans or a suit made. Blue jeans for about $ 2.00-$ 3.00 sold. Soft drinks were 5 cents and then round steak (nonsense) was the great thing about white bread with mustard or mayonnaise. Of course, we had a piece of fruit to make cap. This was lunch. Oh, sometimes we have switched to peanut butter and jam or peanut butter and bananas.
When the last bell rang I would go home and try a couple of thugs, who lived a couple to avoidBlocks away from our house. I discovered that I was a good runner and for the most part have not, to confront it. If it had been forced at times cruel, but I have in my licks in most cases. I still can not understand why some people want to take advantage of others. I think they felt cheated, or they were abused by someone else or their parents.
Those were great times and the work was completed at my house, I play outside until it got dark and then, before a radio sitting about five metershigh and two meters wide and deep. The Lone Ranger and Red Ryder, my programs. I have traveled many miles with them and took care to ensure the bad guys. The adults talked big thing was the war, the great World War II. During World War II there was rationing of everything. We had ration cards for each family member. Everyone was so much sugar, petrol, shoes and assigned it the name. I was a little '6-year-old boy, but I remember newspaper articles in metal, aluminum foil, rope, andother things. Almost everything that was necessary elements for use in war to the warriors and women. We had to be very careful about what we needed. If your shoes have holes in the ground, we put cardboard, and if we could afford it would be "half-soles" put on them. People have had to limit their travel, because the stamps were only gasoline. I had to walk everywhere, because we do not have a car so we do not have gas stamps. Butter and margarine have beenrationed.
Sugar was almost impossible to get at this time. Many things were scarce because they were needed for military power - gas, oil, metals, meat and other foods, as an example, some products were scarce because they come from countries with which we were at war because they had been imported or brought by ship from foreign places. Rationing ensured that nobody starved. Each was given a ration book. Each book had a number of cards in them. Grocery store and other shopsAfter what people could buy your food stamps this week. It 'been to you to decide how to spend your stamps. Everyone had a garden to grow vegetables to feed their victory that they could buy with their food stamps to supplement. They were everywhere, you could plant something planted. Some people planted the stuff on the window sill and in pots on the roof. Everything was for the war effort. We had to rally iron trash, rake, bird cages, irons, stoves come to light bulbs,Bed rails, pianos, washing machines, rubber goods, agricultural machinery, lawn mowers, etc. helped to make junk guns, tanks, ships for our fighters. I had a little car that I pulled through the area, to take things to the shooting range. Obviously I was not alone, many other kids my age were doing the same, and that made us feel like we're supporting the war effort. Saccharin tablets have been used to sweeten things, and beverages. The book is scheduled to be completed this year, the Lordget ready and not Bach. It will be published on my blog.
