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I Been Everywhere , Babe
I was digging around in a box of pictures the other day and came across again a big sheet of paper covered with my mother’s Spencerian handwriting where she had attempted to make a list of all of the towns where we used to live. It was typical of my mother that as a memory aid and an attempt to orient her thought processes she first made a list of where we were each Christmas since she had been married and then went back and tried to fill in the towns in between Christmases. Her total list only goes through 1943 but my memory is pretty solid concerning where I was after that so I am going to type up the list and print it out and put a copy of it in the picture box for some of my progeny to find some day. I( count my three different rural Hale County locations as towns. Dates shown are when I moved TO the town
I have often said that by the time I graduated from high school I hade lived in 42 towns and attended 26 schools. That may not be EXACTLY correct but it is close enough for government work. You can count them up yourself. I graduated in 1943 from High School and attended three Universities (Univ of Texas, Texas Christian University, and Pepperdine University).
Anyway here goes:
* indicates school attendance at this location
Hale County (Halfway) TX Born May 1927
Dallas TX Jun 1927
Plainview TX Nov 1927
Crosbyton TX Feb 1927
Dickens TX Jun 1928
Carlsbad NM Dec 1928
Plainview TX 1929
Silverton TX Jan 1930
Wellington TX Apr 1930
Dalhart TX Jun 1930
Beaver OK Apr 1931
Muleshoe TX May 1931
Sudan TX Jun 1931
Tahoka TX Aug 1931
Post TX Sep 1931
Columbus KS Oct 1931
Happy TX Nov 1931
Haskell TX Mar 1932
Throckmorton TX May 1932
Lubbock TX Jul 1932
Paducah TX Aug 1932
Beaver OK Oct 1932
Shattuck OK Dec 1932
Dalhart TX Jan 1933
Memphis TX* Aug 1933
Clarendon TX* Jan 1934
Rule TX* Mar 1934
Dalhart TX* 1934
Lubbock TX Jun 1934
Brownfield TX* Sep 1934
Plainview TX* Jan 1935
Hale County (Bellvue) TX* Mar 1935
Carlsbad NM* Dec- 1935
Perryton TX Jun 1935
Dalhart TX* Sep 1936
Borger TX* Aug 1937
Plainview TX* Sep 1937
Hale County (Bellview) TX* Oct 1937
Lancaster TX* Nov 1937
Greenville TX Jun 1938
Royce City TX* Sep 1938
Rockwall TX* Oct 1938
Munster TX* Dec1939
Hamilton TX* Jan 1939
Corsicana TX* Jun 1939
Sayre OK* Sep 1939
Giddings TX* Nov 1939
Cuero TX* Dec 1939
Austin TX* Graduated Jan 1940
South Lyon MI Jun 1943
Fort Worth TX* TCU Oct 1943
By my count above that is 51 towns by graduation time but only twenty-two schools attended or counting my three colleges attended that makes 25–still short of the oft quoted 26 schools by one.
Anyway it was a lot of moving around.----It passed the time.
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