1951 – 1952 - 1954 Buying
a House
1954 – Went to Work at Ingram Coil Plant in
Elizabethtown, KY
We had moved from the
two bedroom place with no bathroom into a storefront building that had its own
outhouse. There was a pump on the back porch and that was where we got our
water from. The outhouse was something we were use to, since we had an outhouse
when we were growing up and it was a lot better than sharing a bathroom with
sixteen other families.
The family next door
was named Chesser. There was a mother and her son, Otis, living there. Otis
farmed and took care of his mother; who we all called Grandma Chesser. Grandma
Chesser made some really good biscuits and the kids use to go over to see her
so they could get one of those biscuits. If one of them didn't go, the one who
did would ask Grandma Chesser for a biscuit to take back to the other one. She
always let them have one to take to the others.
When I went over
Grandma Chesser would make tea in her favorite teapot and we would “sit a spell”
and talk. We all really loved that old lady. Later when we started to move she
gave me that teapot.
Harold was still
working at Fort Knox as a mechanic and Ann had started school at Rineyville,
Kentucky. We decided we would try to buy a house using Harold’s VA. We looked
until we finally found one that we thought we could afford. A couple was
selling out because they were getting a divorce. The house was on what was
called Old 31W then; I think it’s called Sportsman Lake Road now.
We put a loan in at
First Federal Bank in Elizabethtown, Kentucky. Then there was a drugstore on
the corner; now it’s an electric company. First Federal Bank said that we
needed more money to buy a house, so I went to work at the White Dove bakery,
and they approved the loan.
Later I got a better paying
job as a manager at Kroger’s in Radcliff, Kentucky. I think there is a car lot
there now. Anyway I worked as a manager for Kroger’s until the Ingraham Coil
Plant opened in Elizabethtown. That was about 1954. I worked for them nine
years; when I had surgery, went into a coma and they fired me. I’ll leave that
story for another day.
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