My grandfather started out with Proctor and Gamble Buckeye Cotton Oil Co. In Jackson, as a night watchman in 1915. At his death in 1948, he had become Superintendent. He was a man of character that enjoyed people in all walks of life.
His first wife died in child birth and his two sons died of Hooping Cough. After this tragedy, he moved to Jackson for a new life and a new job. When he met my grandmother, she was running a boarding house supporting herself and two small sons. When my Grandfather proposed to my Grandmother it was on the afternoon that the fair was in town. He gave my grandmother a neckless as an engagement gift, and took the boys to the fair where their picture was taken. They were married 21 June 1915, in Rankin Co.
This couple had three children, Sudie Lee Pierce (my mother), Juanita "Sister" Pierce, and Hugh Vernon Pierce.
His first wife died in child birth and his two sons died of Hooping Cough. After this tragedy, he moved to Jackson for a new life and a new job. When he met my grandmother, she was running a boarding house supporting herself and two small sons. When my Grandfather proposed to my Grandmother it was on the afternoon that the fair was in town. He gave my grandmother a neckless as an engagement gift, and took the boys to the fair where their picture was taken. They were married 21 June 1915, in Rankin Co.
This couple had three children, Sudie Lee Pierce (my mother), Juanita "Sister" Pierce, and Hugh Vernon Pierce.
My grandfather started out with Proctor and Gamble Buckeye Cotton Oil Co. In Jackson, as a night watchman in 1915. At his death in 1948, he had become Superintendent. He was a man of character that enjoyed people in all walks of life.
His first wife died in child birth and his two sons died of Hooping Cough. After this tragedy, he moved to Jackson for a new life and a new job. When he met my grandmother, she was running a boarding house supporting herself and two small sons. When my Grandfather proposed to my Grandmother it was on the afternoon that the fair was in town. He gave my grandmother a neckless as an engagement gift, and took the boys to the fair where their picture was taken. They were married 21 June 1915, in Rankin Co.
This couple had three children, Sudie Lee Pierce (my mother), Juanita "Sister" Pierce, and Hugh Vernon Pierce.
His first wife died in child birth and his two sons died of Hooping Cough. After this tragedy, he moved to Jackson for a new life and a new job. When he met my grandmother, she was running a boarding house supporting herself and two small sons. When my Grandfather proposed to my Grandmother it was on the afternoon that the fair was in town. He gave my grandmother a neckless as an engagement gift, and took the boys to the fair where their picture was taken. They were married 21 June 1915, in Rankin Co.
This couple had three children, Sudie Lee Pierce (my mother), Juanita "Sister" Pierce, and Hugh Vernon Pierce.
