, and he was not on the ship when it got sunk.C. K.:In WWII did you have any close calls?W. B.:Yes, just that one I told you about earlier.C. K.:Did you ever start a family?W. B.:Yes, I have two daughters.C. K.:When was that?W. B.:One daughter lives in Arizona the other lives here in Durham. It was around 1955, 1956.C. K.:How did you support the family?W. B.:I was a hard working person, I operated a TV shop in Roxboro. I worked long hours. My wife was a nurse, she worked at the hospital in Roxboro. Things werent so bad. Things were really touch and go back when I was 5 or 6 years old. When the depression came along. Course we were poor. People now adays, they cant quite survive on the way that we lived. I remember my father worked ten hours a day, and got paid very little money, but supported seven children.C. K.:What kind of salary?W. B.:About 25 an hour.C. K.:Was that enough?W. B.:Well, we had a garden, a cow, and a pig. We made out pretty good. My mother worked in the garden, and when the kids were old enough to work the garden they worked the garden. I also remember when I was going to school as a child 6 or 7 years old, I remember carrying my buttermilk to school in a little mason jar that fits underneath the windowsill. My lunch I would carry in a paper sack. I would be lucky to have a paper sack, people cant quite grasp that. I would fold up my paper sack very neatly and bring it home, and I could carry my lunch the next day. And thats the way we did it, we survived. We didnt go hungry. But I remember when a meal would be made from thick gravy; fat back, some grease, and flour would make brown gravy. And that would be the meal. I remember meals with buttermilk and cornbread crumbled up in it. I remember meals from molasses, molasses butter, it was a good meal. I remember Saturdays would be for special occasions. We could buy a can of salmon and it cost 10, and mix with some flour and make salmon patties, we would have a gourmet t...
