Born the son of George William Clay and Emma Sudie Williams, Charley married Martha Alice Clay in Wise County.
Charley's father George was killed in a wagon accident when Charley was only 8 years old. His mother raised him and his siblings without the aid of a male figure around.The boys were a rowdy bunch, getting into all kinds of mischief around town.
Cy and Mattie lived in Bridgeport until the '40's when they moved to Weatherford where they lived their remaining years.They had 7 children.Bobby,Harry,Theda,Dorothy,Mary,Paul and Billy.
Charley was a hard working man. Always doing blue collar work. He and Mattie dated in a buckboard wagon when he was working as a cowboy on the place next to her father's farm in Cottondale.After they married and moved to Bridgeport, he worked at the brick plant for several years. He also augmented his income bootlegging beer and whiskey into the dry county.
In 1954, Charley was struck by a taxicab doing 55mph. The doctors didn't expect him to live, so they didn't bother setting the broken bones in his legs properly. He defied them, and against all odds, walked again. He was crippled, his right leg pointing at a 45 degree angle from normal,his body bent over in a short bow, yet one could see him walking the 2 miles from his house to downtown Weatherford frequently, loudly whistling,"San Antonio Rose".
Charley's father George was killed in a wagon accident when Charley was only 8 years old. His mother raised him and his siblings without the aid of a male figure around.The boys were a rowdy bunch, getting into all kinds of mischief around town.
Cy and Mattie lived in Bridgeport until the '40's when they moved to Weatherford where they lived their remaining years.They had 7 children.Bobby,Harry,Theda,Dorothy,Mary,Paul and Billy.
Charley was a hard working man. Always doing blue collar work. He and Mattie dated in a buckboard wagon when he was working as a cowboy on the place next to her father's farm in Cottondale.After they married and moved to Bridgeport, he worked at the brick plant for several years. He also augmented his income bootlegging beer and whiskey into the dry county.
In 1954, Charley was struck by a taxicab doing 55mph. The doctors didn't expect him to live, so they didn't bother setting the broken bones in his legs properly. He defied them, and against all odds, walked again. He was crippled, his right leg pointing at a 45 degree angle from normal,his body bent over in a short bow, yet one could see him walking the 2 miles from his house to downtown Weatherford frequently, loudly whistling,"San Antonio Rose".
Born the son of George William Clay and Emma Sudie Williams, Charley married Martha Alice Clay in Wise County.
Charley's father George was killed in a wagon accident when Charley was only 8 years old. His mother raised him and his siblings without the aid of a male figure around.The boys were a rowdy bunch, getting into all kinds of mischief around town.
Cy and Mattie lived in Bridgeport until the '40's when they moved to Weatherford where they lived their remaining years.They had 7 children.Bobby,Harry,Theda,Dorothy,Mary,Paul and Billy.
Charley was a hard working man. Always doing blue collar work. He and Mattie dated in a buckboard wagon when he was working as a cowboy on the place next to her father's farm in Cottondale.After they married and moved to Bridgeport, he worked at the brick plant for several years. He also augmented his income bootlegging beer and whiskey into the dry county.
In 1954, Charley was struck by a taxicab doing 55mph. The doctors didn't expect him to live, so they didn't bother setting the broken bones in his legs properly. He defied them, and against all odds, walked again. He was crippled, his right leg pointing at a 45 degree angle from normal,his body bent over in a short bow, yet one could see him walking the 2 miles from his house to downtown Weatherford frequently, loudly whistling,"San Antonio Rose".
Charley's father George was killed in a wagon accident when Charley was only 8 years old. His mother raised him and his siblings without the aid of a male figure around.The boys were a rowdy bunch, getting into all kinds of mischief around town.
Cy and Mattie lived in Bridgeport until the '40's when they moved to Weatherford where they lived their remaining years.They had 7 children.Bobby,Harry,Theda,Dorothy,Mary,Paul and Billy.
Charley was a hard working man. Always doing blue collar work. He and Mattie dated in a buckboard wagon when he was working as a cowboy on the place next to her father's farm in Cottondale.After they married and moved to Bridgeport, he worked at the brick plant for several years. He also augmented his income bootlegging beer and whiskey into the dry county.
In 1954, Charley was struck by a taxicab doing 55mph. The doctors didn't expect him to live, so they didn't bother setting the broken bones in his legs properly. He defied them, and against all odds, walked again. He was crippled, his right leg pointing at a 45 degree angle from normal,his body bent over in a short bow, yet one could see him walking the 2 miles from his house to downtown Weatherford frequently, loudly whistling,"San Antonio Rose".
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