Luther Delbert Kelley

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Luther Delbert Kelley

Birth
Fulton County, Arkansas, USA
Death
10 Feb 1974 (aged 80)
McAlester, Pittsburg County, Oklahoma, USA
Burial
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"There were twelve of us kids and the two of them made fourteen. A lot of the time Uncle Ewing lived with us, Ewing Elms, Mama's brother. We farmed and Papa did his own blacksmith work, way before he ever had the shop in Stuart. He did it for a lot of the neighbors and the people in that community. They would bring their plows for him to sharpen and he'd do a lot of that after dark or before daylight in the morning, so he could get on with his work. Us kids would work in the fields and we would pick cotton and pull bowls for other people in order to make some extra money. There wasn't much money at that time.

We live in house a ways from Cabiness. It was a big five-room house with a big front porch and a back porch, and a large barn. Papa always had a lot of cows and horses. We lived near the creek where we could go fish and swim every day. And get in trouble sometimes. Mama didn't like for us to go swimming without some of the boys with us and around so we would be safe. Your Grandpa Kelley worked very hard, but we never did go hungry. We didn't have shoes on our feet all during the summer, but we did in the wintertime. He was a very honest man and a Christian." – Mary Doris Kelley Moore
"There were twelve of us kids and the two of them made fourteen. A lot of the time Uncle Ewing lived with us, Ewing Elms, Mama's brother. We farmed and Papa did his own blacksmith work, way before he ever had the shop in Stuart. He did it for a lot of the neighbors and the people in that community. They would bring their plows for him to sharpen and he'd do a lot of that after dark or before daylight in the morning, so he could get on with his work. Us kids would work in the fields and we would pick cotton and pull bowls for other people in order to make some extra money. There wasn't much money at that time.

We live in house a ways from Cabiness. It was a big five-room house with a big front porch and a back porch, and a large barn. Papa always had a lot of cows and horses. We lived near the creek where we could go fish and swim every day. And get in trouble sometimes. Mama didn't like for us to go swimming without some of the boys with us and around so we would be safe. Your Grandpa Kelley worked very hard, but we never did go hungry. We didn't have shoes on our feet all during the summer, but we did in the wintertime. He was a very honest man and a Christian." – Mary Doris Kelley Moore

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