When talking to Dad last Saturday, I asked him about where Grandma and Grandpa had lived before living in the house we all remember in Bordersville. I knew they lived in what is the Baytown area when he was born in 1925. Daddy said he believes Grandma and Grandpa moved the family from the Baytown area about 1929 or 1930 to a tent on the banks of the San Jacinto River in the area between the old road that went down to the low water bridge and what is the present road known as FM1960, where it crosses Lake Houston on McKay Bridge. He said living there in the tent is his earliest memory.
My mother noted at that point that in the "old days" lots of people in the Humble area lived in tents. (Those were the oil boom days following the big oil strike at Spindletop in the Beaumont area and Humble was said to be a town approaching 20,000 people, most working in the oil fields.) Daddy said there was no one else living nearby when they lived in the tent down by the river.
Mom and Dad and I discussed when Grandma and Grandpa moved from Bordersville to town. None of us could remember precisely. The only thing I can remember for sure is that they first lived in a small house just off Granberry Street, and I believe it faced the Methodist Church. Then they moved, at some point, to that larger house on the corner just behind the Penticostal Church. I know they were living in that house when I got married in August 1966 and they were living there when Grandpa died in October 1966. Does anyone know precisely when they moved to town?
More information gathered from this visit with Daddy in the next few days.
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I don't remember when they moved, but the little house they lived in first was a duplex that did face the Methodist Church. It has now been torn down. They moved from there to a small white house that was right next to the Methodist Church and that was around the time that I was a freshman in high school around 64. Then they moved from that house to the cream / yellow house that was on the corner that is now a parking lot for the Methodist Church.
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