My mother's dad, Art Gilmore was
born in 1890, my dad's mother, Rebecca Ramey Dobson Williams was born in 1891.
So you could say they were about the same age.
Grandpa Gilmore was old beyond
his years. He had "hardening of the arteries" ( Arteriosclerosis).
I think that that effected him a lot. He also had been a hard working, hard
drinking man for most of his life. He was a street fighter when he was young
and in one of his fights, someone hit him in the side of the head with a board.
His hearing was damaged and he was almost completely deaf when I was a kid.
He used to read the "funny papers" as we called
the Sunday comics then. But he only went to the 3rd grade and it wasn't long before I could read better
than he could. One time we, reading the comics and I corrected him. That was
the last time he read to me.
He liked to read western paperback novels. Louis Lamour was one
of his favorite writers.
