Photo:
Father Samuel Henry Clifton (Seated), with children Oscar, Fred, Hugh (plaid shirt), Delsie, Elsie, John, Alice in Savanna, Oklahoma.
Childhood:
Born near Dogpatch in the Ozarks of Arkansas.
The house Hugh's family lived in as a child was a one-room log house with a kitchen built on later. Their log house had a fireplace and a floor made of wood, which they cleaned with a buck brush broom. There were 3 beds for all to sleep in- three kids to a bed and the baby slept with Sam and Terissee in the kitchen addition. They had a porch that went around the house.
Each family member worked hard daily with his or her own assigned household tasks or farm work.
The girls had to make the beds, wash the dishes, clothes, sweep the floors, cook dad's lunch, milk the cows. The boys cut the wood and stacked it by the stove.
Grandma would make all of their clothes and socks. She would use wool, which she dyed with berries. She would boil berries and then dip the wool in the hot berry juice. After the wool was dry, Grandma would knit all of the socks.
After all chores were finished that morning, the children would walk two miles to school.
Hugh's mother began to suffer with cancer when he was four years old and she died when he was five. About three years later his father moved the family to Oklahoma with the family walking behind a mule-pulled covered wagon.
Heart of Gold:
Hugh & his father, Sam Clifton, went together and bought 160 acres in Oklahoma. When Sam couldn't make the monthly payments, Hugh would make it for him. When Sam needed financial help, Hugh bought all of Sam's land except 40 acres and the house he lived in.
Hugh would help Sam work the land and bring in the cotton field while on his 60-day leave from his real job in the Air Force, and Hugh's wife Virginia would come and clean Sam's house for him. Hugh's nieces and nephews recall Uncle Hugh & Aunt Virginia's kindness. "Us kids liked to see them come; they always brought us a big sack of bananas, which was a real treat to us then. We didn't always have something like that"
Father Samuel Henry Clifton (Seated), with children Oscar, Fred, Hugh (plaid shirt), Delsie, Elsie, John, Alice in Savanna, Oklahoma.
Childhood:
Born near Dogpatch in the Ozarks of Arkansas.
The house Hugh's family lived in as a child was a one-room log house with a kitchen built on later. Their log house had a fireplace and a floor made of wood, which they cleaned with a buck brush broom. There were 3 beds for all to sleep in- three kids to a bed and the baby slept with Sam and Terissee in the kitchen addition. They had a porch that went around the house.
Each family member worked hard daily with his or her own assigned household tasks or farm work.
The girls had to make the beds, wash the dishes, clothes, sweep the floors, cook dad's lunch, milk the cows. The boys cut the wood and stacked it by the stove.
Grandma would make all of their clothes and socks. She would use wool, which she dyed with berries. She would boil berries and then dip the wool in the hot berry juice. After the wool was dry, Grandma would knit all of the socks.
After all chores were finished that morning, the children would walk two miles to school.
Hugh's mother began to suffer with cancer when he was four years old and she died when he was five. About three years later his father moved the family to Oklahoma with the family walking behind a mule-pulled covered wagon.
Heart of Gold:
Hugh & his father, Sam Clifton, went together and bought 160 acres in Oklahoma. When Sam couldn't make the monthly payments, Hugh would make it for him. When Sam needed financial help, Hugh bought all of Sam's land except 40 acres and the house he lived in.
Hugh would help Sam work the land and bring in the cotton field while on his 60-day leave from his real job in the Air Force, and Hugh's wife Virginia would come and clean Sam's house for him. Hugh's nieces and nephews recall Uncle Hugh & Aunt Virginia's kindness. "Us kids liked to see them come; they always brought us a big sack of bananas, which was a real treat to us then. We didn't always have something like that"
Photo:
Father Samuel Henry Clifton (Seated), with children Oscar, Fred, Hugh (plaid shirt), Delsie, Elsie, John, Alice in Savanna, Oklahoma.
Childhood:
Born near Dogpatch in the Ozarks of Arkansas.
The house Hugh's family lived in as a child was a one-room log house with a kitchen built on later. Their log house had a fireplace and a floor made of wood, which they cleaned with a buck brush broom. There were 3 beds for all to sleep in- three kids to a bed and the baby slept with Sam and Terissee in the kitchen addition. They had a porch that went around the house.
Each family member worked hard daily with his or her own assigned household tasks or farm work.
The girls had to make the beds, wash the dishes, clothes, sweep the floors, cook dad's lunch, milk the cows. The boys cut the wood and stacked it by the stove.
Grandma would make all of their clothes and socks. She would use wool, which she dyed with berries. She would boil berries and then dip the wool in the hot berry juice. After the wool was dry, Grandma would knit all of the socks.
After all chores were finished that morning, the children would walk two miles to school.
Hugh's mother began to suffer with cancer when he was four years old and she died when he was five. About three years later his father moved the family to Oklahoma with the family walking behind a mule-pulled covered wagon.
Heart of Gold:
Hugh & his father, Sam Clifton, went together and bought 160 acres in Oklahoma. When Sam couldn't make the monthly payments, Hugh would make it for him. When Sam needed financial help, Hugh bought all of Sam's land except 40 acres and the house he lived in.
Hugh would help Sam work the land and bring in the cotton field while on his 60-day leave from his real job in the Air Force, and Hugh's wife Virginia would come and clean Sam's house for him. Hugh's nieces and nephews recall Uncle Hugh & Aunt Virginia's kindness. "Us kids liked to see them come; they always brought us a big sack of bananas, which was a real treat to us then. We didn't always have something like that"
Father Samuel Henry Clifton (Seated), with children Oscar, Fred, Hugh (plaid shirt), Delsie, Elsie, John, Alice in Savanna, Oklahoma.
Childhood:
Born near Dogpatch in the Ozarks of Arkansas.
The house Hugh's family lived in as a child was a one-room log house with a kitchen built on later. Their log house had a fireplace and a floor made of wood, which they cleaned with a buck brush broom. There were 3 beds for all to sleep in- three kids to a bed and the baby slept with Sam and Terissee in the kitchen addition. They had a porch that went around the house.
Each family member worked hard daily with his or her own assigned household tasks or farm work.
The girls had to make the beds, wash the dishes, clothes, sweep the floors, cook dad's lunch, milk the cows. The boys cut the wood and stacked it by the stove.
Grandma would make all of their clothes and socks. She would use wool, which she dyed with berries. She would boil berries and then dip the wool in the hot berry juice. After the wool was dry, Grandma would knit all of the socks.
After all chores were finished that morning, the children would walk two miles to school.
Hugh's mother began to suffer with cancer when he was four years old and she died when he was five. About three years later his father moved the family to Oklahoma with the family walking behind a mule-pulled covered wagon.
Heart of Gold:
Hugh & his father, Sam Clifton, went together and bought 160 acres in Oklahoma. When Sam couldn't make the monthly payments, Hugh would make it for him. When Sam needed financial help, Hugh bought all of Sam's land except 40 acres and the house he lived in.
Hugh would help Sam work the land and bring in the cotton field while on his 60-day leave from his real job in the Air Force, and Hugh's wife Virginia would come and clean Sam's house for him. Hugh's nieces and nephews recall Uncle Hugh & Aunt Virginia's kindness. "Us kids liked to see them come; they always brought us a big sack of bananas, which was a real treat to us then. We didn't always have something like that"
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