Interviewer: When were you born? Wilborn: June 9, 1932. Harrison County, TX. Marshall, TX. On 445. Highway 445—449. Interviewer: What about your parents? What are their names? Wilborn: Ella Mae Scott-Wilborn and Julius Wilborn. They were farmers. My mother was a—I’m going to say she must have been a dropout about tenth or eleventh grade. I don’t know much about my daddy other than he was killed by lightning when I was four years old. Had a brother who was a year and a month old and I had another brother who was two months old. Three months because he was born in March. Three months old. He was—I was born in 1932, so he was killed in 1935. June 5, 1935 by lightning on Highway 449. Interviewer: That’s here in Marshall? Wilborn: Marshall. Kind of west. That’s west of Marshall. Probably using—sometimes they shift where it’s Marshall school district and sometimes it’s Hallsville school district. It’s Marshall school district now because I’m paying taxes on the property out there, so yeah. Interviewer: Where were they from originally, your parents? Wilborn: My mother was from Jonesville. Jonesville, TX which is about fifteen miles east of here. Right off of Interstate 20. My father, on 449. Interviewer: Do you know—did your mom ever tell you how they met? Wilborn: Well, yes. His aunt—my grandfather, my mother’s father, built a home at the time. They only had school up to eighth grade. So, he had seven girls, my grandfather. So, he built a home on Herbert Street. 1505 Herbert Street. It’s still there. (inaudible) go to college, which during that time, Bishop High School, which is Central High School now which later became Pemberton High School. He built it where they could get an education, high School as well as college education. Just so happened, directly behind this house that my grandfather built, my going-to-be daddy so to speak was visiting his aunt. His aunt lived back there and that’s how they met. Ended up marrying. He would come to town and visit his aunt. That was his mother’s sister. Aunt Minnie. They never told me, I figured it out. Interviewer: Really? Wilborn: Yeah. Interviewer: How’d you find out? Wilborn: Well, I know my Aunt Minnie lived backed there. I know that’s where we lived. I bet that’s how they met. During that time, you didn’t ask—matter of fact, when I was coming up, I didn’t know most old folks first name. That was a no-no. You only knew their last name and referred to them as Mister and Missus. So, certain things, you just didn’t ask. I never asked. I know I got. I don’t know how I got out of the house. During the time, I must have been about five or six years old, I supposed. I moved, by the way, after my father was killed by lightning. My baby brother who was almost three months old stayed with my daddy’s sister because she had a child the same age. So, she nursed my baby brother. My mother came to town here to Marshall on Highway 80 and worked for a family out there. My aunt, who lived in my grandfather’s house, she was teaching school during this time. She took me in. Her name was Reba Stroger. The other aunt, Melissa Hyatt, another mother’s sisters, took my other brother in who was two months old, we’ll say, two-and-a-half, three months old. So, we were divided. Later, she married again about five years later to Curtis Thompson and we all came together again. We lived on Highway 80 which is—we call it West Grand.