![]() ![]() Fortunately, he recognized Amy and passed the information on. ![]() Sallie and Melba were convinced that she had been killed when another relative announced that he had just left the train station where numerous victims had been boarded onto a train for Memphis and treatment. The tornado destroyed the house Sallie had built on the hill and carried Amy away. Magazine Street, where they lived, is only one block south of Main Street (Now Highway 278) on which ever object appears completely flattened in the panoramic photo taken by the Memphis Commercial Appeal. In due course, the car was purchased and Curt took a liking to it and, in Amy's view, gave short shrift to the driving training Curt was to give them, hustling them out of the driver's seat in short order so that he could take of the driving of the beloved car.In 1936, Tupelo was hit by a tornado which old-timers still refer to as the Great Tornado of '36. Amy used hers to attend Blue Mountain College and Mississippi State and to purchase a car at the appropriate time. The settlement had established a trust for each of the girls to do with as they wished at the appropriate time. Melba seems never to have harbored any kind of grudge in that regard but Amy did. While it was Ross who went to the dry out hospitals several times, it was Amy who died of cirrhosis of the liver.In 1933, Sallie remarried, this time to a distant in-law, Curtis Pennington, the brother of her deceased husband's brother's wife, Lillian Pennington.Since Curt moved into the house Sallie and the girls had purchased with the Carnation Settlement money, there can be little denial that Curt benefited from marrying a woman with a home and some modest means, especially during the Depression. Later she went to work in Ross's office.The glimmer left the marriage sometime in the 70's when both drank too much. ![]() ![]() When she unexpectedly became pregnant with Alan and then Kevin she stayed home with the boys. She sent son Ricky to a masquerade party at Jane's house as the boy with green hair.She was working when she met Ross near Camp Rucker and continued to work while he went overseas during WWII and even during Ricky's early years. 1920 Amy Belle McLain Amy was always a hard charging kind of a person and very imaginative. He says the reason is because he didn't want the responsibility.His work was not especially lucrative but it did provide for a nice home in West Houston and work for sons Alan and Kevin and for daughter-in-law Jane after Braniff Int'l went out of business. ? Living Bonny 1919 Ross Fredrick Bonny Ross's autobiography is in several separate binders which are separate.Ross narrowly escaped death twice during WWII, once when his group was not sent to Bataan and another time in time, after D-Day, when his room was hit with a cannon shell.Though he was offered the chance to become an officer during the war, Ross refused, perhaps because he was afraid of not doing a good job. see for information on how tocorrectly configure a web server for svg files. PLEASE NOTE: If you do not see a GRAPHIC IMAGE of a family tree here but are seeing this textinstead then it is most probably because the web server is not correctly configured to serve svgpages correctly. ![]()
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