Courtship

After Mom graduated from high school in 1946, she enrolled in beauty school in Talladega. There she met a woman named Jewell Ellis who had a brother named Carl Cagle. Jewel wanted to introduce her to Carl and he had come by the beauty school once, but Mom was out to lunch. The woman that ran the beauty school had a shop in Sycamore where mom worked once she graduated. The Cagles lived next door to the beauty school. Mr. Cagle had built a building that had a grocery store on one side and the beauty shop on the other. Mom finally met dad when he came by the beauty shop to tell her about Jewel's son Colin had arrived. Colin was born on May 2, 1947. Dad and his friend Ralph Britton were riding when he motorcycles and he and mom got to talking. Dad came out to Chandler Springs to meet her family. He was about to go to Oklahoma to work with his brother Verdo, but was so distracted because he had fell in love with mom that His sister -in -law told him he should go back to Alabama and marry that girl. So he did. Mom didn't think he would come back. She was excited to see him. Mom and Dad were sitting on the porch talking to Momo and when Momo got up to go in the house, dad followed her and ask for mom's hand. They were married on August 10, 1947.